001time so that families in the back can see or actually let me take this off or you can also take your umbrella or and balloons to the back so that you're not blocking anyone's view i'll go over the agenda here for our ceremony in english first and then we'll have miss avila and mr fan uh present in spanish and vietnamese so we'll be starting to our ceremony today with our pledge of allegiance i'll provide some uh welcoming remarks for our commencement class our students will have some songs they've been preparing for you all we'll be presenting the certificates of promotion and at that time we ask that families uh try to keep the aisles clear for for others to take photos of their children so immediately after your child comes for their certificate please return
002to your seat we'll do ours and then we'll end with our recessional march to pomp and circumstance at the very very end we do ask that if you intend to take your child that you come and sign them out and we have sign out clipboards here before you go all right thank [Music] special [Music] uh foreign [Music] all right teachers students and families if we could please uh start off by standing up we have our our flag here to my left your right and we'll start off with our pledge of allegiance all right teachers are we ready i think we have a few students all right students ready begin i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with
003liberty and justice for all thank you all you may now be seated all right families how are you all feeling today can i can i hear some some energy how are you all feeling today all right and students how are you feeling today students kindergarten and teachers okay i wanted to get started um you know just by acknowledging that there has been you know just some serious uh events that have impacted our country and if we could just have a little bit of a moment of silence before i get started in honor of the lives lost thank you painter elementary kindergarten class of 2022 i am extremely proud of all that you have accomplished during this year of our school reopening it's been a challenging year with the return to school the unknown and anxious
004eager for the very first day we got a lot of calls before school started this year and we want to acknowledge that now here we are in front of you to witness your overcoming and thriving from organized lines to and from class to the cafeteria and programs such as think together the get down dance and creative art with miss d did you all enjoy those programs students over here mr spani miss picasso did you enjoy the art and the dance all right our students did such a commendable job throughout their learning with their teachers this year i remember in the fall our vip singers launched the year of achievement with a performance of the mid autumn moon festival at yerba buena high school and then our students marched for the harvest festival parade we marched
005for cesar chavez and in january we celebrated the lunar new year tet in honor of the year the tiger as you can see here we've rebranded the school with a nice new logo and shirt sales helped fund our activities such as today's promotion the banners balloons and the decorations you see our students learned lessons on phonics grammar learning and pe with their teachers across all subjects and with our dual language program in vietnamese all the while engaging in weekly covent testing and screening ipad programs st math mystery science lecture reader and imagine learning we're among the online learning that our students were able to participate in and we know that reading levels increase and students increase their math fluency and facts our vip learners rose to the challenge in person producing these skills and vietnamese
006as well by learning songs colors and counting while practicing vietnamese language development in their near 300 page textbooks and workbooks finally we closed out this spring in may with a virtual art showcase and get down dance performance and families i know you're waiting for the videos i anticipate sharing all the videos with you tonight i also want to address a lot of the questions and concerns from you all about safety protocols here at painter and i want to assure you that we're collaborating with our district office and with san jose police to ensure that when we come back next fall we'll have all those safety measures in place to ensure the safety of our first graders so finally here we are you are all ready for the next big step as grade schoolers entering the
007first grade taking flights of excellence as proud soaring eagles class of 2022 we are extremely proud of you and before we close out our recessional uh we want to provide your teachers and you all students the stage for a presentation of songs mrs tran and miss pam who unfortunately could not be here uh to a personal emergency uh will now be presenting a few songs uh that our students have been uh anxiously preparing for you all are we ready yes yes yes all right so our first song is i am special ready oh [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right thank you quick round of applause [Applause] and our next song you are my sunshine [Applause] and finally our vietnamese immersion program our dual language learners will be presenting a few songs for a couple
008songs for you all mr tran did you want to announce uh what our students will be singing and explain uh what the content will be so the first one is they're going to recite the the vietnamese proverb come on james is about appreciation the parents and the song the circumstances i go to kindergarten [Music] thank you mrs tran and mrs fam's class for that final presentation here [Applause] all right folks now we're going to move on next into presenting our certificates of promotion students will receive a scroll today with instructions on their kindergarten certificates and each of our teachers will be calling their students up to the stage to present them with a scroll good morning everybody i'd like to congratulate our students we'll start with gabrielle [Applause] leilani [Music] [Applause] [Music] sophie [Applause] david
009[Applause] sargon [Applause] mia [Applause] abby [Applause] victor [Applause] cheyenne [Applause] danielle [Applause] and raya [Applause] congratulations i know you're ready for first grade next up we have mrs pham students so first we have um marvin [Applause] haven [Applause] and last but not least everly [Applause] congratulations all right next up we have miss picasso's class all right mateo [Music] victor dylan avonnie [Applause] hawk [Applause] [Music] jason [Applause] ariel [Music] sapphire [Applause] valeria [Applause] [Music] aaliyah [Applause] mia [Applause] michelle [Applause] [Music] gabriella [Music] [Applause] [Music] posing tyson [Applause] cassie [Applause] [Music] kaley [Applause] [Music] matteo [Music] congratulations i'm so proud of [Applause] all right last but not least we'll be going with mrs tran's class thank you [Music] for joining us today and congrats congratulations to the kindergarten class of 2022 i'm very proud of you all
010thank you for working very hard okay first student jimmy congratulations [Applause] julian [Applause] another jayden [Applause] amy ann [Applause] [Music] charlotte ariel johnny mia [Applause] ryan [Music] [Applause] jasmine [Applause] jordan [Applause] peter [Applause] justin khaleesi [Applause] vincent [Applause] johnny and [Music] mathias congratulations you all thank you so much for working very hard i hope you all have a nice summer thank you see you next year all right families the moment you've all been waiting for we can have our students please stand teachers okay just waiting for a few students we're going to present them for the families all right now we're ready right we're now we're ready kindergarten now we present to you our newest grade schoolers our incoming first grade class here at painter elementary school we present to you the painter class of
0112022. [Applause] right we we do expect students to stay the whole day but if you have plans for them and you would like to celebrate with them immediately uh please make sure to come up to sign in either at the front office or with our clipboards here before you leave with your child today and make sure to let your teacher know so that they know that they're not missing thank you okay [Music] you