{"id":3897,"date":"2010-05-26T21:04:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T21:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=3897"},"modified":"2010-05-26T21:04:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T21:04:48","slug":"elis-kindergarten-graduation-was-very-wet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=3897","title":{"rendered":"Eli’s Kindergarten Graduation was Very Wet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Thursday we celebrated Eli completing kindergarten.<\/p>\n

\n\"Eli\n<\/div>\n

Some schools treat this as a full-blown graduation with caps and gowns and all kinds of formality. I am not down with that; I appreciate marking Eli’s transition from kindergarten to grade school, but it’s not really a graduation. Fortunately, Eli’s school didn’t do that. Instead, after everyone got their certificate, they went outside to have sponge races!<\/p>\n

\n\"Eli\n<\/div>\n

His class divided into two teams. Each team had a bucket full of water at one end of a stretch of ground and an empty bucket at the other. They had to transfer the water from the full bucket to the empty one using sponges. The first team to fill their bucket won.<\/p>\n

Eli’s team didn’t win, but he didn’t care. He got to run a lot and get very wet.<\/p>\n

You know, I kind of wish they’d done this at my doctoral graduation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Thursday we celebrated Eli completing kindergarten. Some schools treat this as a full-blown graduation with caps and gowns and all kinds of formality. I am not down with that; I appreciate marking Eli’s transition from kindergarten to grade school, but it’s not really a graduation. Fortunately, Eli’s school didn’t do that. Instead, after everyone … Continue reading Eli’s Kindergarten Graduation was Very Wet<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t