6th Grade Graduation

[Stacy9402]

My daughter is graduating from 6th grade this year. Well the call it a Promotion Ceremony. But anyways my sister called me and we was talking and she said she was going to send my daughter something for her because she was graduating. I hadn't really thought about getting her something. We would probably have gone out to dinner but we do that every year to celebrate the end of school and her passing to the next grade. So what do you get a 6th grader for Graduation?? Don't forget she is my daughter.


Thanks
Stacy

 

[Pungodingy]

flowers, gotta take her flowers, all the girls get 'em!

 

[Chicago526]

We didn't have a ceramony for 6th grade, just 8th grade, but I asked my parents for a stereo system to replace the crummy tape deck/radio I had through "childhood". Last time I checked Target, they had some nice ones for not too much money.

Or, with summer comming up, how about a gift card for the local movie theater, so she can go to the movies with her friends.

 

[grlpwrd]

Here they have a ceremony for 5th graders and I am going to surprise my dd with a bouquet of flowers and balloons. I also will give her a graduation plush doll from disneyshopping.com.

Then the following week we are having a party at an indoor "bounce" facility for all her classmates.

I sure love that movie gift card idea.

 

[Stacy9402]

Thanks i think I will get her some flowers and maybe either give her a game for her DS or itunes gift card or the movie gift card or maybe we will just say we will paint her room again. So undecided. But thanks for the ideas.

 

[InstImpres]

I would ask around. My DD has 5th Grade Recognition this year (moves to middle school next year). Speaking with other parents gifts are ranging from Ipods to cell phones to stereos to upgraded summer vacations.

No flames, please...just answering OP's question (and no, I am not in the richest of areas. We are a mix of incomes in town)

 

[Tamarap]

My son graduates from 6th grade this year and we are all (grandparents, aunts and uncles) going out to dinner at the restaurant of his choice. We will also get him a small gift of some kind (I like the idea of movie tickets). We haven't really decided this even though he thinks it should be a cell phone.

 

[MrsPete]

I think we as a society are going overboard with gifts. By giving something everytime we turn around, we trivialize the really important days. Then, if you do something big for 6th grade graduation, you have to go bigger for 8th grade, then really bigger for high school . . . it builds up excessive expectations.

I'd vote for marking the occasion with a bouquet of flowers, then taking her to dinner at the restaurant of her choice (or let her choose a favorite dinner at home).

 

[MUFFYCAT]

our ceremony is for 5th graders. i didd n't buy much for my 2 dd
we went out to eat after the ceremony.
other that, i agree a movie or clothing store gift card.
there were some kids that got bicycles.

 

[8 Ears]

Going along with the idea of gifts for your child, what about the BEST friends?
DS 14 who is going to HS next year has 3 VERY close friends. I would like to do something for them but still at a loss of what Something easy, not too time consuming and not expensive. What have you done or been given?

 

[figment52]

I think we as a society are going overboard with gifts. By giving something everytime we turn around, we trivialize the really important days. Then, if you do something big for 6th grade graduation, you have to go bigger for 8th grade, then really bigger for high school . . . it builds up excessive expectations.

I'd vote for marking the occasion with a bouquet of flowers, then taking her to dinner at the restaurant of her choice (or let her choose a favorite dinner at home).

Thank you. I am so pleased to see that I am not the only ones that feels this way.

You can still mark the event but why does it have to so elaborate. We used to celebrate with a home dinner of honoree's favorites or their favorite cake. I still remember those celebrations and they were the best times.

 

[Goofyzgurl]

Thank you. I am so pleased to see that I am not the only ones that feels this way.

You can still mark the event but why does it have to so elaborate. We used to celebrate with a home dinner of honoree's favorites or their favorite cake. I still remember those celebrations and they were the best times.

I feel the same way too. My co worker was telling me about her dd "graduating" from pre school. I was thinking, do they do something different in pre school lately because I thought it was pretty much automatic. I have a 6th grader too, but we pretty much take it for granted that she's going on to the next grade and don't celebrate, but I guess a nice dinner and cake is a good idea. I think we'll take her to her favorite restaurant at the end of the month.

 

[mercydisney]

DD10 will be going into middle school this year. She asked for another AG Doll. So that is what she is getting. I don't mind getting her gifts for special occasion because my DD's only get gifts for special ocassions. We will also be going out to dinner to her choice of resteraunt. PS. I don't do flowers. Something about them making my DD have allergies set in and they don't last long. The money I spend on flowers I will put towards her AG purchase.

 

[Stacy9402]

Well we always take her out to eat at the end of the school year so we will probably will do that. Unfornuately I do live in a high cost area and no we are not rich by any means. And also my child has always been into electronics and not so much toys. So she just got a stereo for her birthday her only gift from us. She has a prepaid cell phone because of her going to her dad's in the summer I could get a hold of her and to use here for when she is away with friends or at the pool. She has had 700 minutes for a year and she still has 350 or so left so she is responsible. She has an ipod mimi she got that last year for her birthday. The oly thing she doesn't have is a digital camera but was kinda waiting a year or two on that she used mine on a trip and really only took a few pics so she isn't so interested in that.
She is such a hard person to buy for. Even clothes you have to have her because she is an odd size. Very skinny and tall. I have no clue I guess I will try and see what other people are doing but usually don't stay with the crowd because lately her friends have got cell phones (Razors) with their own cel phone plan which I am not ready to do. Thanks for listening.

 

[Mandabella]

I think we as a society are going overboard with gifts. By giving something everytime we turn around, we trivialize the really important days. Then, if you do something big for 6th grade graduation, you have to go bigger for 8th grade, then really bigger for high school . . . it builds up excessive expectations.

I'd vote for marking the occasion with a bouquet of flowers, then taking her to dinner at the restaurant of her choice (or let her choose a favorite dinner at home).

I totally agree. It's unreal the number of times a child will "graduate" by the time they finish college. I know I made my MIL a tad upset because I only recognize the high school and soon the colllege graduations with our nieces and nephews.

I like the dinner and flowers option.

 

[taximomfor4]

Nothing. Nothing at all. My kids are going to learn the value of intrinsic rewards, instead of tangible ones. Then again, we strive to minimize the gift load at Christmas and birthdays too. Oh, and for dd's First Communion, we only had the most immediate family, over for pizza and cake -- that day, we wanted her to be really into the importance of the sacrament, not into the thought of a big party and presents.

Call us mean, we are trying to be NOT so materialistic. It is a struggle sometimes, since my kids see what their friends get that they do not. But that just opens the door for more communication. DD12 really wants a cell phone. Nope. I am tempted sometimes, but I went through childhood without one and anywhere she goes, I know where she is so I can find her. Just our way of raising our kids, though.

 

[jennifer293]

My DD 5 graduated from Kindergarten this past week and she asked what we were going to get her for graduating, and I told her that we could go to dinner afterwards and she could even pick the place we ate at. Well I could tell while she really did not like the idea she knew that was all she was getting out of me so she decided on Cracker Barrel... She never passes up an opportunity to eat pancakes for dinner..LOL

 

[Julia M]

DS is graduating from 8th grade this year. His birthday also was yesterday. We got him a computer for both, mostly because he really needs one (all of his assignemnts must be tyoed, and in high school, they must be submitted via email to a plagerism service). He was realy impacting the family computer!

We also aren't doing something big...........we'er going to a local restaurant (not fancy) with 2 other families, and his grandparents.

I think many families go overboard

Julia

 

[patsal]

I have my dd moving up to MS and my DS moving up to HS. I added two nights on the summer vacation we are taking CL at AKL--somthing they both have always wanted to try since Samantha Brown's Great Hotels. Really it is not their gift so much as an excuse to add the little extra for the CL stay.
I am bringing flowers to DD on that day and I am not really doing anything for DS. We will be inviting the family over for cake and snacks a few weeks after both ceremonies--I've requested no one bring gifts, I just want to let them know we are proud of them and share cake with the extended family. DS will have his moving up day on June 2nd--three weeks before the end of 8th grade, and the kids will all be headed to a beach blast for the rest of the day as well as a semi-formal dance that evening. DD will have her ceremony on June 23rd at 8am, and then be sent home--I'll have to get back to work and she will come with me. By planning a little celebration in July we will all get to relax and enjoy and share the pictures with everyone.
My parents gave us a big party when we moved up from 8th grade and again for HS. College was not acknowledged at all.

 

[Grumpy's Gal]

our school ended this week. Three of the 6th graders I know got digital cameras. One got a cell phone. I don't know what the others got as gifts.