Arbor Heights fifth-grader, Summer Kace, pictured left, rehearses the procession for her class's graduation. Forth-graders hold up garland for each passing graduate. The graduation will be held Monday, June 20.

Pictured right, Katie Sanderson will miss the graduation ceremony itself, even though she will of course graduate. "I was really looking forward to it, but my family is driving to Disneyland. It will take four days."

Sanderson said that she looks forward to entering sixth grade at Denny International Middle School this fall in part because her current principal, Dr. Carol Coram, will become an assistant principal there.

"Dr. Coram helped us raise $700 for a charity called Mary's Place," said Sanderson, referring to the Day Center program that provides a daytime drop-in place for homeless women and their children. "She just went along right with it and helped us with everything. She wants us to do it again in middle school. I am very excited that I will see her again next year."