blast from the past

My friend spent the weekend scrappin' with her sister to celebrate her sister's birthday. After the weekend, she came back home. While proudly showing off her 6 brand-new Christmas pages her five-year-old son pointed to a photo and said, "Wow, Mommy. That one looks just like you!"

MY KIDS ROCK

Like Old Mother Hubbard I went to the cupboard to give my children some lunch. But when I got there, the cupboard was bare, so...I had to go buy some things to munch. Eight-year-old Jae volunteered to go with me. I agreed--on one condition--no whining allowed (from me or her)! We started at the produce stand, moved on to stock up our household items, and finished the 2 1/2 hour shopping extravaganza at the grocery store. When we got home she was STARVING and HAD to have a snack. I called my fourteen-year-old son down to help unpack the car. Not only did he come down to help unpack (fist time I called), but....he stayed to unpack EVERY single sack AND put the food away. I checked the house to see if anything was broken or out of place--nope! He was helping Mom because every day he is becoming just a little more responsible...which I choose to believe until I find a broken window--MY KIDS ROCK!

DAY 18 PRE-K

One student's rendition of the ABC's...

"ABJ2XRZ....How I wonder what you are!"

Sadly, you can not see the HUGE smile on her face after completing the ABC's. She was so proud!

Day 17 PRE-K

While learning the life stages of a butterfly/moth, we used a lot of repetition. EGG, CATERPILLAR, CACOON, BUTTERFLY....EGG, CATERPILLAR, CACOON, BUTTERFLY....EGG, CATERPILLAR, CACOON, BUTTERFLY.

When asking for volunteers to tell the class the life stages of a butterfly one very excited little guy exclaimed: EGG, CATERPILLAR, RACOON, BUTTERLFY!

Day 16 PRE-K

As PRE-K skill checks continued on, I couldn't help but smile when some of the kids named shapes for me. Can you guess the shape?

Egg............................OVAL
Obo............................OVAL
ELBOW..........................RECTANGLE

Day 15 PRE-K

To my loyal followers and those of you that just happen to drop by.....SORRY! Our oldest daughter just graduated from high school and her scrapbook, graduation and party CONSUMED me (Not to mention this full-time work thing!). But...I'm back.

Here is a FAVORITE that happened while I was "gone" in PRE-K:

Mrs. G. was practicing shapes with her pre-k class. She held up shape cards one by one. Each student had to name a shape BEFORE lining up for the playground. "C" was the only kid left.

Mrs. G.: (holds up a "square" card)"What shape is it?"
"C" : (silence)
Mrs. G.: "What shape is it?"
"C" : (silence)
Mrs. G.: "It's a square. Just say square."
"C" : (silence)
Mrs. G. : "Just say square."
"C: : "STOP SQUARING ME!"

I guess it's no longer hip to be square!

Day 14 Pre-k

BUTTERFLIES is our final theme of the year in Pre-K. We've been reading amazing stories like THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR by Eric Carle. We even watched a short DVD that featured Eric Carle explaining where he got the idea for his book and what his childhood was like growing up in Germany. As we are watching I'm talking to the boys and girls about how Eric Carle never thought he could write books and now he is a famous author.

I announce: "You can be anything we want to be."

"H" enthusiastically shouts: "I want to be a caterpillar!"

Well.....maybe not ANYTHING!

ALTOID COMMERCIAL

Funny boy -- Isaac was enjoying an Altoid when he asked Mom if Altoids make your muscles get bigger. Mom's response was "What?" He said, "You know, didn't you take them when you had poison ivy?" Mom said "Oh, you mean STEROIDS!"

Day 13 PRE-K

Some cute and funny clowns visited our Pre-K to teach us about the character education word of the month: PERSEVERANCE. I don't know who made me laugh more, the kids with their reactions to the clowns or the actual clowns.

At one point Lilly the clown was doing a "magic" trick. She tried and tried and tried, but nothing she did made her successful. She even said, "abracadabra" but that magic word didn't work. So...she asked the boys and girls if they knew a word she could use to make her trick work. "J" shouted out in a very excited voice, "hoperpatopic" very convinced that HIS magic word would do the trick.

Can you guess what the correct "magic" word was? PERSEVERANCE

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all the moms, step-moms, and grandmas. If anyone knows about perseverance it's MOM! Hope your Mother's Day is FABULOUS!

NEW CAR

Paula's 5 year old son just got a new kid sized battery operated car that he can drive. He was very proud of his car. He was driving it all over the yard. When a car pulled into the driveway he pulled right up next to the driver's window, loosely propped his elbow on the ""rolled down window" of his car and waited for the new arrival to role down the window of her car. Then he said in a cocky little voice, "What do you think of this bad boy?"

I think he's got about 11 years to fine tune his pick up lines.

Day 12 PRE-K

The Pre-K class across the hall just finished up a very cool dinosaur unit. (I don't really get into the dinosaur units, because I have a hard time pronouncing all their names. It is very interesting to me that the kids--no matter what their age--ALWAYS learn their correct names and love naming them.)One of the math activities Mrs. B. did with her students during this unit was to make patterns using Marshmallows and chocolate chips--which represented dinosaur teeth. During this activities two boys are overheard having this conversation:

Boy 1: Why do they call them marshmallows?

Boy 2: 'Cause they're white and small (duh!).

Pre-K logic...can't beat it!

POOR BABY

Remember Aiden. He is an ADORABLE 7 year old who is extremely intelligent and witty. The other day he hurt himself and his momma was trying to console him and give him a little lovin'. The conversation went a little somethin' like this...

Aiden: I don't feel good, Momma.
Momma: OH, my poor baby.
Aiden: Momma, I'm almost 7. It's time you start calling me a man.