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January 2008

January 2010

King of the Jungle

Evie is 'King of the Jungle' this week in her kindergarten class. Each child gets to do this for one week throughout the year. They get to be the line leader, share a poster about themselves, bring show and tell, and basically be special during this week. Evie wanted to bring her brother and fish for her show and tell today. She got to talk about both and her classmates got to ask her lots of questions. I have a whole new respect for her teacher, Mrs.Van Valkenburgh, every time I go into that classroom. From Andrew and Go Fish, the kids discussed living vs. non-living things (fish), liquid-gas-solid concepts(jar and water), months of the year (trying to guess Andrew's birthday), money(who bought the fish), jobs(how do we get $), and more. I am just so impressed with everything Evie is learning! Mrs.Van Valkenburgh invited Andrew to join in the math exercise and days of the week dance. With some encouragement from Evie he participated. The math exercise is really exercise: jumping, stretching, spinning, etc while counting to 100. He left there declaring he loved kindergarten and couldn't wait to do it again.

Lunch in the cafeteria

Go Fish came for Show and Tell

Andrew got to participate with Evie's class

Box sledding

Happy New Year

We had a s'mores party...

and played card games to ring in the new year (at 6:00 pm!)