Awards ceremony

Tuesday morning was the awards ceremony for Libby at school. As soon as I dropped off Libby in her class I got a quick picture of her with her 2nd grade teacher, Ms. Parker. I couldn't believe that it is the last week of school and I still hadn't taken a picture of Libby with her teacher all year long!

After taking the picture I went home for about an hour because the 3rd grade awards ceremony didn't start until 9:00am. Libby is a 2nd grader but she is in a 3rd grade class so I had to wait until 9:00 to see her rack up some awards. :-)

The music teacher was the first up to pass out awards for music and art (the art teacher had to go home unexpectedly to care for her sick daughter). The children all sat up front near the stage grouped by the six different 3rd grade classes and the parents sat behind the children. The teacher started handing out the awards and called out a few names from Libby's class of those who were getting art awards and Libby's name wasn't called! (I know I should stop here but I have to be honest and tell you the whole story - even if it makes me look bad!) :-) When the teacher finished calling the names for Libby's class and Libby's name wasn't called I was shocked. I think my jaw hit the floor. I couldn't believe that Libby didn't get an art award. I mean, come on! Art is Libby passion! I sat there bubbling with anger and little flames shooting out of my ears. I just couldn't believe it. I looked in front of me where Libby was sitting and I saw her friend sitting next to her start to rub Libby's back so I knew that she was upset, too. I asked her later what she was thinking when her name wasn't called and she said that she thought, "Why didn't I get an award? I did my best!" Well, the teacher finished handing out the awards for the rest of the 6 classes of 3rd graders and then she turned around. When she turned back around I saw that she was holding four trophies. Uh oh. Then she announced that she had trophies for the four children who excelled at art and surpassed all expectations out of all of the 120 3rd graders. The first name called? Libby!!! I frantically started pushing the power button on my camera and the look on little Libby's face when she got up on stage was priceless. :-) I didn't get my camera turned on in time to get the look on Libby's face but this is the first picture I could get after she got up on stage and got her Awesome Artist award and her Star Artist trophy.

Then the coach went up to the podium and he gave out the Presidential Fitness Awards and Libby was included as one of those award winners, as well (the picture is listed a little further below).

Here is Libby's class...they went up as a whole class while their teacher passed out some of her individual awards for some of the students in her class. (I know the picture is sort of far away but Libby is just about in the middle).

This is just a cute pic of a moment I captured of Libby and one of her friends, Emma, giggling over an award.

Here is Libby with her Awesome Artist award and Star Artist trophy later that afternoon when we were at home.

Here she is with her Presidential Fitness Award (it had a copy of Barack Obama's signature on it and that just blew her mind). It made her day to have the President's signature on her award!

Here she is with her Certificate of Scholarship for being on the Honor Roll the entire school year:
Here she is with her certificate of Good Attendance (less than three absences all year).
And here she is with her Citizenship Award for being a good student/friend to everyone all year long.

Here she is with all of her awards. She was very proud of herself and so were we! :-)