What's Happening in School These Days?

 We haven't had a school update in awhile. Let's see what's happening during a typical school day...

Tommy and his best friend practiced following directions with legos.  This picture doesn't look posed or anything. ;-)

They had their 100th day of school.  They decorated hats to celebrate and counted to one hundred a few times with the 100 items they chose to bring in. Tommy brought in 100 candy legos.  We found them in the pantry from last year.  He ate one and said they were gross and they've been sitting there ever since. :-)

I got this picture that day and freaked out.  First of all, he can have the Meijer brand fudge stripe cookies.  I had just brought those in for his snacks for after school.  Also, I thought those little brown things were raisins.  So I figured he was super disappointed about his 100 snack and felt horrible.  I sent her a message but it was too late after hers.  But she did write me back said that those were actually chocolate chips.  PHEW.  I felt better after that.  Just a little.  He's been expressing frustration lately with not getting what the other kids get.  I feel awful for him. He's pretty resilient though and gets over it quickly.

 This is a picture from the after school program.  Once again, it's Tommy and his best friend, playing cars.  Too cute.

 On this day, they counted feathers and talked about penguins.

 When you learn to tie your shoe, you become an honorary shoe sheriff. Tommy has not become a shoe sheriff yet.  Only two in the class have.  I'm thinking we should maybe work on that someday?  ;-)

They were flashlight reading in this picture.  His teacher said it's something they love to do.  I think one kiddo fell asleep.  Just kidding! ;-) It's the little things though for little kids.  I'm sure they get really serious about it.

Tommy had Show and Tell last week.  He decided to bring in his Smithsonian Space book that he got for Christmas.  His teacher told me that he was going through the book explaining everything about space that he knows.  All the kids were asking questions.  His teacher said she admitted at one point, even she was raising her hand and asking Tommy questions.  Haha!!

Tommy loves Kindergarten and he loves learning.  I love hearing about his days and all the fun stories his teacher tells me about what kind of person he is becoming.  I'm so proud of him and everything he is doing.


So we've heard plenty about kindergarten.  Who's wondering about the 3's class?

 Here's a picture of the core crew.  I believe this was their New Year's noisemaker celebration.  Best buds! Love the smile, Charshe!

Here's the kiddos doing a little painting. I love this picture just for the sheer fact of Charlotte's hair looking so ridiculously cute.  I can't get over it.

This was a game where each kid had a color ball they had to race to pick up.  She said they did fantastic with this task.  Looks like Charlotte had green which she says is new favorite color besides pink.

I haven't gotten as many pictures of Charlotte but I have gotten lots of stories.  They send me something all the time telling me how funny she is or how crazy her stories are.  Here are a couple snippets.

"Hey teacher, my mommy was 10 years old when she was a baby!"

"Hey guys, when I have a piggy at my home, it blows my house down and then my dad builds it again."

Anatomy lesson with Charlotte, "My heart is inside my stomach!"

Charlotte had a phone during playtime and said, "This is Mom! I'm stuck in Canada!!"

"Hey teacher, I went underwater and I bit and ate and kicked the shark."

"Hey teacher, my mom and dad ate a stingray."

Besides all the funny stories, I can already tell that Charlotte will learn best through songs.  She is constantly singing. They learn a song for each letter to get used to the sound and learn more vocab for  each one.  She just LOVES those songs.  She also loves entertaining her friends.  She is a riot.  Anything she can do to make them laugh, she is on it! She also loves school and her best friends.  She makes sure to get a "huggie" from each friend before she leaves each day.  It's adorable.

These stories and pictures make it slightly easier to be away from them during the day.  It makes me so happy to see how much they love their friends and their school.  I miss them so much but I know they are having such a great time becoming the wonderful people they are.

New Year's Eve

 The kids celebrated New Year's Eve at school with a parade!! I can only imagine how loud that was.

You can see Charlotte in the front in purple and Tommy is in the back by the super tall kid with his hood pulled up.  :-)

Tommy's class celebrated with 2017 shades!

Thanks to Gaga and Pop for babysitting so that Mama and Dada could celebrate New Year's Eve with a noisemaker parade too!! We had shades at one point but they didn't fit very well.

I also cannot imagine how loud we also were. ;-)

Happy New Years Everyone! It's 2017!

Thanksgiving at School

 Tommy's teacher sent out some pictures from their Thanksgiving day celebration.  Which is good because I didn't take a single picture during either of our Thanksgivings at home.  Whoops!

 What a cute class!

They had a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving lunch which Tommy wanted NOTHING to do with for some reason so he took his lunch.  Looks like he had a great time!
Happy Thanksgiving! Just a little late. :)

Halloween at School 2016

Soooo I guess I'll have to get used to school rules but Tommy's class didn't dress up for their fall party this year.  Instead their teacher had them decorate masks to wear. 

Tommy decided he wanted to be a bat for Halloween this year so he wanted his mask to be a bat mask too.  I mentioned some ideas on how to make a bat mask (like tracing the Batman mask he owns).  He took it and ran with it.  This was his prototype.   He vehemently refused to let me help him.  He traced the mask and started cutting.  He accidentally cut the bottom part off so I had him start again.

This was his final product.  His teacher sent him a white masquerade mask to decorate so he cut out the black paper, cut out eyes, then put the white mask on top of it and colored it black. Then he used some super hero fire/blast/boom stickers to add some fun.  He then glued two triangles on the bottom of each side of his mask so it would look like his batman mask.  I think he did a great job. I was so proud that he did it ALL by himself. 

You can see the whole class in their masks here.  You KNOW there was a lot of parent help on some of these (I'm looking at you, perfectly crafted unicorn).  Not Tommy though! He does his own stunts. ;-) 

 They had a little fashion show with their masks.  Tommy certainly likes to put on a show.

 Here's another picture of Tommy's class with Tommy acting appropriately. :)

Here's another class pic.  They are too cute.

HOWEVER.... Charlotte's class DID dress up for Halloween.  Yay!! She finally got to be a butterfly! 

 Her class had a fashion show too!

As is expected, Charlotte got a picture with her bestie, Lakynn.  Adorable as usual.  But I'm not sure what is going on in the background there.  Someone is not having it!

 Class picture time! Not sure what Charlotte is doing with her cheeks there. Hmm...

 Back to Tommy's class... they made a pumpkin throw up!! 

I asked Tommy how they did it.  He said they took vinegar, baking soda, soap, and glitter (hehe) and mixed it in a jack o' lantern. Awesome! The kids obviously loved it.  Pretty sure this picture is stage but it's awesome nonetheless. 

The kids had a great school Halloween once again!

How's School Going?

I'm really enjoying the school's app. We see lots and lots of pictures of the kids throughout the week. But I'll be honest there were some during the first few weeks that weren't too exciting. 

 Like this one with their art teacher. Where's Tommy? Oh he's behind the art teacher.

Or this one? Where's Tommy? Behind the paper chains.

And there was the one from Charlotte's dance party in the last school post.  Where's Charlotte? Behind some other kid. :)

It truly makes me think of Monster Inc when Mike always got blocked out of the picture.  Haha!

Anyway, kindergarten seems to be going pretty well for Mr. Thomas.

 Most of his pictures, he is full of personality.

 Or completely offended he has to be in a picture.

 Or just not in the picture hardly at all.  :)

 Or he's the star of the show!

 It's mostly all personality though.

 He's been hard at work making new friends and being, in his words, the "best in the class."  He never says what he means by that but he claims to be the best. 

Painting A's! 

 The room that they are currently in is pretty dark and drab but next week they will be moving into their new classroom now that the renovations are finally done. How exciting! They will have windows again!

Tommy is so funny.  He is so full of... he's so full of WORDS! That kid talks so much! He is a leader too, according to his teachers.  I thought this was a good thing until he told me that he "likes his new friend Bode because he does everything I say!" So we are working on what it means to be a good friend.  Haha!!
He is so inquisitive and smart too.  The other day he asked how a baby gets out of mom's belly so I told him a mom has a hole at the bottom that it comes out of.  He thought about it for a moment and then said, "Like a duck?"  I said, "Yes.  Exactly like that." "Okay." He didn't ask any other questions after that.  Hahahahahahaha! I laughed so hard (later of course). 

So how is Charlotte doing??

 Does this picture explain anything?? Haha! No, she's doing fine and she loves books. I have no idea why she is looking at the camera in this picture.  Too funny.

 She actually let me put her hair in pigtails so they took lots of pictures on this day!

 These cuties are waiting on their friends to finish going potty. 

 Charlotte made a school bus in art class.

 I got this message the other day.  I thought I had the accident figured out until I picked her up and she told me that Jude puked on her.  OMG!! Even worse than I thought!!! 

The next week she was home sick with me, if you can imagine.  I picked up Tommy when she was sick and her teacher told me there were only two students left that weren't sick that day.  Sheesh.  It spreads quickly! She doesn't look too sick though, does she?

 But yes Charlotte is loving school. 

 I think she loves it most of all because she gets to play dress up all the time. 

And I mean All. The. Time.  Fun stuff!

I'm so glad they have so much fun at school.  I'm glad they get one more year of going to the same school.