Near the end of the school year we went on a field trip to Seahurst Beach. The parent educator, who is in the classroom a couple of times a month, is a volunteer beach naturalist. We went on a really low tide day and Teacher Susan was able to tell us all about the various creatures we found.
Lauren was mostly interested in the many puddles on the beach, and then she found the biggest puddle of all:
I need to buy that girl some rain boots. Luckily I am well aware of her puddle obsession and I brought a full change of clothes.
The kids put on a fun Mother's Day celebration. They made us flowers and a place mat with a butterfly made from their hand prints. They served us fruit salad that they helped prepare and performed some songs and poems.
On the back of the place mat each kid wrote something about their mom. We had to walk around and try to figure out which one was ours based off the description. I walked right on by mine, multiple times. Here's what it said:
"My mom likes it when it's her birthday because we give her presents and she loves Mother's Day. She likes to go shopping because she gets things for bake sales. She likes earning things. When she was little she liked to play jump rope."
I don't know where she comes up with these things. KAYLIN likes birthdays and Mother's/Father's Days. KAYLIN likes to earn things (she's had quite a few sticker charts). I have no idea about the bake sale comment, I've never participated in a bake sale and I don't even know where she's heard about one. She does love to go to the monthly potluck at church, so Eric and I are thinking that it might have been a miscommunication with the teacher. I'm also not sure about the jump rope reference. I did love to jump rope, I was in the jump rope club in elementary school, but I haven't told her that before. Anyway... she's a funny kid. She was so proud of what she said so I of course acted like I knew it was mine immediately. The kids weren't in the room when we were figuring out whose was whose, so she'll never know. Lots of other kids said that their mom likes to cook, clean, and sleep, so I was definitely impressed by Kaylin's creativity :-).
One of the last days of preschool was pajama day. They had some tents and sleeping bags out and a pretend campfire. I was assigned to work that day and was in charge of the snack so I had breakfast type foods. The kids built towers and other structures with empty cereal boxes. It was a lot of fun, and the inspiration for the pajama birthday party that Kaylin wants to have next year, as I mentioned in my last post.
Kaylin and her best preschool friend.
The last day was Preschool Graduation. Kaylin is a super fun, outgoing, talkative kid... on her terms. She doesn't like to be in front of people.
Do you see her?
Yes, she's the one not smiling and not wearing her graduation cap. Oh well, at least she went up there.
I can't believe how much Kaylin is learning and growing. It's going to be hard to send her to kindergarten in the fall, but she is so excited and ready.
