Words of Encouragement/Poem Suggestions??

Borrow a few lines from Oh The Places You'll Go. Riff off of those. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/05/17/the-great...

Stay off the crack!  And you girls: stay off the pole!

Low bar, but I don't know much about your school district

Consider your target audience, the parents and students. Keep it light with some really positive things you can highlight, and don't forget a sense of humor to cut any tears those silly parents may be shedding. Point is, it's a fifth grade graduation- brevity and fun is the name of the game. ;)

maybe some quotes from melanoma trump might hit the spot...

Scarlet, for sure think about what your son would like to hear, and what you as his parent would like to hear. These are just a few ideas, I hope they help you get to what your ideas are.

"... Congratulations. (Or maybe you want to say can graduations). Graduating means you've achieved many things and it also means that you are about to start achieving others.  Be proud of yourselves and happy that you are moving on to a new school, but hold onto your friends because when you get to your new school everybody's going to look big to you, the  drinking fountains p are going to look bigger, the teachers will be strangers and it might feel scary. But at least you'll have your friends,  people you know and trust,  and that will mean a lot to you.  

Have a great summer!"

Look up some Tao of Pooh...or just old winnie the pooh...and put your own "Tao" on it...

Or just use judit's,....word for word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4leCtyy-1hM

Why not?

Mending Wall

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down." I could say "Elves" to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbours."

-- Robert Frost

Make sure to mention "how proud all the students should be of themselves"

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But, B, why?!

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