{"id":649,"date":"2009-06-25T19:33:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T05:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=649"},"modified":"2009-06-25T20:19:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T06:19:37","slug":"glen-oaks-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Glen Oaks Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leilani did not graduate from Glen Oaks, but some of her friends did. The kids were supposed to sit still for 1\/2 hour, and Leilani did not. She was the only kid who got up to protest (loudly and persistently) to her teacher that it was boring, and she also got up a second time to protested that she did not get a diploma, even though it was her last day of school… Her friend Isabella held her hand for most of the ceremony to keep her from getting up.<\/p>\n

We came early, and she ran around with Paul
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The looooong and boring ceremony
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Isabella and Kathrine were Leilani’s favorite girlfriends… although she kept calling Annalise Katherine too…
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Her teachers in her own class were Miss Julie (in this picture) and Miss Niveen
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They had snack afterwards
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Let Me Free….
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Miss Patricia was her Yoga teacher and Miss Indira was another teacher there.
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I think she’ll miss the 2 trees that she climbed on a lot…
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We fit in better at her new school… Leilani loves it by now. And we have a learn-to-read at home system now, just in case (although I think they’ll do just fine at her new school). Leilani loves the reading system too. It is part of “The Gentle Revolution” series, and based on Montessori again, but a modernized version. She did not make a lot of progress reading this year, actually almost all her lower case reading went away, I recently watched a video from a year ago, and there she was reading lower case words, and now she is all uppercase – I was kind of disappointed when I tried with her (but the new system has no tests…)<\/p>\n

Leilani has been really good this week. I think the big playground and the added activities make all the difference for her. She is really excited to go to her new school. I’ll write more when I’m sure the honeymoon phase is over. I was there for my first day of teaching today, it was mostly enjoyable and fun, and sometimes a little boring out on the playground (I did not get to play with Leilani, but in the area where I was there was a little boy who kept climbing and crying for help… I should have gotten the main teacher to help me I suppose, but instead I kept hovering around him, and he just did the same stuff for 1\/2 hour… ), and I felt sorry for some of the school pets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leilani did not graduate from Glen Oaks, but some of her friends did. The kids were supposed to sit still for 1\/2 hour, and Leilani did not. She was the only kid who got up to protest (loudly and persistently)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}