School's out

Yesterday, Ben's school had it's Moving Up Day. It's kind of like a graduation, where students are given certificates. A number of the kids, including Ben, are moving on to the "big" schools. Next school year, Ben will be going to Claret School's Child Study Center. He wasn't accepted to the kindergarten level because of his age (they require kindergartners to be at least 4.5 by June and Ben only turns 4 in July), so he's going to be in Senior Nursery level. Hopefully, he won't get bored.

Anyway, back to the Moving Up celebration, I've got the pictures here. All the pictures will be posted at the fotopic site too (Ben's Moving Up Day).

He was up on stage four times, when he received his certificate, and when the children sang songs. When they were singing the "Vaseline Shampoo song," I felt so bad for the little girl he was holding on to, because he kept pulling her back and forth. The pictures won't show it, but we've got video that proves otherwise. And at times, he was scratching his head and Kuya Tony was joking that he had dandruff.

All in all, he had lots of fun, and was smiling most of the time he was up on stage. Enjoy the pictures. I've sized them down, which I hope will make loading time for the page faster. If anyone wants the better resolution files, let me know.

Ben just before we went to school for the Moving Up celebration
Ben again
That's me, Ben, and his Lola Iring
Waiting for his name to be called
Benjamin Gabriel Querijero Tan, bow
Taking his place for the song number
Singing "The More We Get Together;" the little girl next to him is Aya, and poor kid pulled around all over the place by Ben
Singing the Vaseline song
Singing the Fremont song

Other pictures:

taken in his classroom just before the event
Ben's official school picture
Ben's class

So now, Ben's on vacation for about a month. He'll attend a summer program in school for reading and writing, but just for a month and just for a couple of hours each day. It'll be more to have time to play with other kids during the summer.