2011 graduation and moving-up ceremonies

throughout the school district

The journey from the first day of prekindergarten through high school graduation is punctuated by report cards, school pictures and summer vacations. And then there are those rites of passage: moving up and graduation ceremonies. Prekindergarten to kindergarten. Kindergarten to first grade. Elementary school to middle school. Middle school to high school. Finally, high school graduation.

Below is a series of images from that captures those transitions from the earliest grades through the end of high school. All were taken at moving-up and graduation ceremonies during the final weeks of the 2010-11 school year.

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The commencement ceremony for the 468-member Albany High School Class of 2011 class took place on June 26

at the University at Albany's SEFCU arena. Almost 90 percent of graduates plan to attend a two- or four-year

college, and they were accepted at more than 150 colleges and universities. Read more about the ceremony or

check out more photos from the day.

Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School eighth-graders celebrated their final milestone before high-school at

their June 24 graduation.

William S. Hackett Middle School eighth-graders revel in their achievements at their June 24 graduation cere-

mony.

Eagke Point Elementary School sixth-graders took to the stage for their June 22 graduation in the school's

cafetorium. On the right, two graduates introduce their guest speaker.

Pine Hills Elementary School sixth-grader Chrstian Maldonado speaks to his classmates, family and friends at the

school's sixth-grade graduation ceremony on June 22. On the right, graduates sing "I Believe."

Sheridan Preparatory Academy graduate Matthew Rivera entertained his fifth-grade classmates with a selection

on the violin June 23 (left) before all of the grads celebrated their achievement. 

Albany Country Executive Mike Breslin, moonlighting as the Cat in the Hat, gives some words of wisdom to the

North Albany Academy kindergarteners at their moving-up ceremony on June 17. At right, students line up for

their procession into the school's cafetorium.

Brand-new kindergarten graduates at Thomas O'Brien Academy of Science and Technology savor the moment

with their newly minted certificates at their moving-up ceremony on June 17. On the right, principal Timothy

Fowler bestows congratulations upon one of  the graduating students.

Prekindergarteners at Giffen Memorial Elementary School demonstrate a few of the skills and lessons they

to an audience of families and friends that gathered for a moving-up ceremony at the school on June 17.

These prekindergarteners in the bilingual Dual Language Program at Delaware Community School show off their

knowledge in both English and Spanish at their moving-up ceremony on June 17.