001what's up the live stream is going already how to use good morning families i'm mrs principal and i just wanted to let you know we will be starting shortly and we're very happy to see all of you here all your beautiful faces we've missed you all so much this school year so we will be getting started very soon thank you hurry up oh [Music] so [Music] uh [Music] so [Music] so [Music] good morning everyone good morning i'd like to welcome especially our amazing kindergartners soon to be first graders [Applause] i'd right to um also welcome all of you parents family members and again thank you for your cooperation and your participation to make this happen this morning it is a beautiful morning and i'd like to also welcome and thank our board members who are
002here with us um this morning we have president mr mcgibbon we have member mr ulrie and we have member mrs so thank you for being here again i'm miss rico the very proud superintendent of these wonderful amazing continental cults and staff so um and this is mrs cuevas our amazing principal who you will get to hear from in a little bit again thank you all we will make this short and sweet and we are going to start with miss oversims class come on up miss overseen and boys and girls when this you practiced yesterday so when miss robertson calls your name you're going to come up to the stage right and i will hand you your little diploma and you can shake miss wilbus's hand got it all right good morning thank you so much
003for being here and i just want to um say thank you to our administration i've been here for a long time for many many years and never had such a supportive admin team as we do right now and especially in this last year that was so super weird it was really great so thank you and thank you families for coming out it was a crazy weird year but we did it okay ready abigail saltzman annabelle silva [Applause] anthony shetherman audrey zeller [Applause] benjamin stewart brinley crawford [Applause] i'm not crying caroline woke up [Applause] eldon stool elijah gallaudet [Applause] emma patterson evan chavez [Applause] francisco fernandez [Applause] isaac hamilton [Applause] isabella cortero [Applause] jonathan haas [Applause] laura davis maxwell [Applause] ruby straley [Applause] and this is my class [Applause] when do these kindergartners graduate from high
004school 2033 wow graduating high school class of 2033 that's amazing we'll just stick with 2021 this year thank you let's give it up for miss overstreet and her class great job great looking bunch thank you next we have miss rodriguez okay miss rodriguez here she comes let's give it up for miss rodriguez good morning parents and family members i want to echo what mrs oberson said thank you for being here and thank you for all of your support that you did this year um it was a very roller coaster and hectic year with a lot of uncertainties but i do appreciate all of your hard work especially during the digital time making sure that your kids were on on time and finishing their work and also i do want to thank mrs huevos and mrs
005rico for their support and their understanding and flexibility throughout this school year so thank you all [Applause] jasmine viegas [Applause] [Music] sophia carmen [Applause] ken sleep patton [Applause] adeline allen kendall maxwell [Applause] leah bjork [Applause] alessandra nocon and cena kaden anderson [Applause] chloe augsburger [Applause] gianna lopez maya lopez [Applause] caleb miller jacob billy elena smith [Applause] mario roman de la torre [Applause] and that was mrs rodriguez's class [Applause] okay let's give it up one more time for mrs rodriguez's class awesome boys and girls they've already grown so much you all look like official first graders not like the kindergartners we had the beginning of the school year it's awesome and now we will have ms mejia hi good morning welcome everyone one of the yes i'm so proud of my classes here i was very
006afraid all year that they were going to not do as well as other years because of such a difficult time we're having but they really showed me that they worked hard and their parents worked hard and i'm so proud of them i'm so happy that we were practically the only district to stay in very school for everything and i'm going to miss them so much okay lance aldridge [Applause] they don't know how to shake hands we practiced about haley sean bradberry [Applause] bruce brown emily burkhalter [Applause] liberty gallagher christine gallego [Applause] maggie haley [Applause] andres hernandez emily hiller [Applause] sorry as ryan ahan [Applause] zoe salisbury jocelyn severson josiah [Applause] jackson stockist wow [Applause] julianna patterson [Applause] layla romero thank you all right let's give it up for miss mejia's kindergartners and mr mia great
007job and last but not least we have miss helton and i have to say that miss helton's class miss halton taught kinder and first grade digital students so she graciously took on our kindergartners along with the first graders that remained online and we are super fortunate that she was able to do that because i'm pretty sure these students are also performing above the mean they did very very well so i want to thank you miss helton for stepping up and being a team player and like we mentioned everybody had to be flexible and our teachers were definitely willing to be flexible to accommodate in-person students and also students who parents who wanted their students to remain virtual and we made it happen but we couldn't have done it without your help ms helton so thank
008you [Applause] i would first like to say thank you to all of the digital parents this year i could not be where i am and we could have not accomplished all of this without your support so truly thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you guys have done to help me this year as we have both learned kindergarten together matilda valentina bracamontes auntie cordero ian de luna [Applause] [Music] taylor savannah ringler these are our digital 2021 kindergartners [Applause] we also have to mention that ms helton is a digital native herself so we couldn't have picked a better person to navigate her techy skills so we definitely had to optimize the skills of our teachers as well so thank you again so let's give it up for our virtual kids and before we
009close our kindergartners have prepared a song for you so let's hear it from our little kindergartners yay [Music] okay [Music] we want [Applause] our teachers are so open up those doors [Music] [Applause] our moms will send us too first [Music] [Laughter] [Music] so here we go [Applause] one more time if i could please have you give a great big round of applause to our students [Applause] our kindergarten teachers are amazing thank you teachers [Applause] and i'd like to thank all of our staff members who work behind the scenes who you see here mr ferguson mr merson mr marianas mr nathan is in the back our special ed teachers our staff members who let can we have our staff members who have kinder students please stand staff members mr nunn this is in the back [Applause]
010molina over there so thank you and if i could have all parents please stand boys and girls help me give your parents a great big round of applause parents please stand [Applause] how about our grandparents we're our grandparents please stand yes what about our aunts and uncles where are our aunts and uncles and extended family members who come support you because it takes the village please stand thank you [Applause] i just want to say congratulations to all of you as the proud and honored principal to be serving you and your children i want to thank you all for your support your understanding i know there were ups and downs this school year but we couldn't have made it through it without you and i most especially want to thank mrs rodriguez mrs overson miss mahia
011miss halton for your hard work with our kindergartners we did do about growth testing this school year and your this was the first year our kindergartners participated in it so i know you got messages about it but they did grow a lot and they met where they needed to be and many of them exceeded so we're very happy we want to thank you all for being on board with us coming back to school when we did we're where we need to be and we're very proud and we want to congratulate you for all your hard work because many of you were assisting us at the end of last school year and the start of this school year and continued on to do so so thank you we're so proud to have you as part of
012our continental family and i want to congratulate all our kindergarteners i'm so very proud of you you're first graders now you're not kindergarteners so congratulations and let's get it to next school year [Applause] okay there's also a lot of people i don't want to leave anybody out but mr curtis miss tesla miss nathan uh our programmatic assistants that are out here so again just thank you all of you for all of your hard work and i'm sorry if i missed anybody miss monica our nurse i mean everybody's here miss wilcox so thank you all and thank you again to our board members for being here we do have nice 2021 uh posters up in the front that you can use as backdrops for pictures we are going to have our students stay here and parents
013if you could please come get them and you can sign them out here are the teacher rosters prior to taking them so again thank you so very much we did it