Evan

Welcome to the world Evan!! I'd like to introduce you to my grandson. Evan was born January 18 and weighed 7 lbs. 15 1/2 oz. . Here he is with his daddy (my son Sheldon).

100 DAYS!!!

We celebrated 100 days in a big way! We made hats with 100 stickers and glasses to watch the parade. Each child made a special snack with 100 pieces of food! We sang our Hundred day song and counted to 100 and back by 1's, 2's 5's and 10's. We had a great day together.

Timmy Abell concert





The sloth spoke only Spanish but thank goodness we had a student interpreter. We were entertained by Timmy and his wife. We loved the Raggedy man. Boy, can he dance!!

Elf Glyphs





The children loved making their elves. They really look a lot like their creators. We analyzed the data and found out that most of our class would like to be an elf.

Center time

Center time provides the students an opportunity to practice previously learned skills and strategies. It also provides an opportunity to work cooperatively with their peers.

The Arts

Dr. Giles shares the book Snowballs by Lois Ehlert. Then she provided the children a variety of items to make their own Snow People. We had sassy kitty cats, well dressed snowgirls and snowboys and even a fashion designer with a belly shirt. What talent!

Seward Farms

We had tons of fun on our field trip to Seward Farms. We went on a hayride and rode the dusty cowtrain. See the smiles on our faces. You can tell we had fun.

Will they ever learn to tie??

My blog would not be complete without a picture of the most precious student in all the U.S.

Blessings

Carpool is always a fun time. I especially love sitting near the kindergardeners while I listen intently as the other teacher radios the names to me for me to announce on the bullhorn. It's not a pretty sound and it's quite boring for someone with an attention problem. So, I try to get stories from the little ones to brighten my day. It was Monday and the little kids were quieter than usual. I guess they had a rough weekend. Anyway whatever the reason they were quiet enough for the other teacher to listen to little ones as they shared stories and concerns with her. She knows how much I love a good chuckle so brought this precious little boy over to me and said, "David, tell Ms. Shrop what we can never do at this school". He looked at me with his beautiful dark eyes and said, we tan not say "dod our fadder". "what??" I said with quite a puzzled look on my face. Once again he said, "we tan not say dod our fadder". He must have seen that I still didn't understand so he said, "you know, dod our fadder, dod our fadder, once adin, once adin. Tank you for our blessings , tank you for our blessings. ah ah men ah ah men. See we tan not say de blessing here." My heart melted and I wished and prayed that one day we could make David a happy little boy and say "dod our fadder" before we eat. Out of the mouths of babes...