Luke's School Christmas Party!!!

Today was Luke's Christmas party at school and it was WONDERFUL! They had 6 different stations: paper snow globe pictures, Christmas card making, they frosted an ice cream cone and decorated it like a little tree, they made magnets with their pictures in it, they made handprint santa's, and they signed the back of these ADORABLE reindeer t-shirts that are made from their handprint and foot print! Too cute! Then I brought my chimes and they played a couple of Christmas songs on them. They even had pizza! Talk about a great party!

Things got a little MeSsY!

Ms. Bealls is the reading teacher

Mrs. Lipsit gave each child a little goody bag and in it she had made each one of them this cute little train put together with different candy! How sweet! This is Luke and Jurnie.

What a field trip!

Remember when you were young and you would hear the people you thought were old saying things like "When I was young we had to walk to school bare foot, up a hill both ways..." Well I find myself saying those kinds of things...for starters when I was little we didn't have field trips like this!!!!! Today Luke's first grade class (actually all the first grade classes) went to Epcot for a field trip. Matt went with him and they had a great time! Thank goodness my friend had her camera there because I had the camera with me!

Classic Elementary Thanksgiving Party...

Last night was Luke's 1st Grade Thanksgiving Program and it was adorable! His class got to dress like football players and cheerleaders (ok not very Thanksgivingish...now I'm thinking it was more of a FALL program :) Luke's part was: "You don't need a team to play...you can play football in your own yard with family and friends". The kids were so wound up before the program started...here are some of the pictures.

Luke and his buddy Dalton

They also had some of their artwork displayed

Then today I got to go help with his Thanksgiving party. It was the classic elementary school party with the pilgrim hats and vests. VERY CUTE! They made Indian corn pins, turkey necklaces, turkey cookies, thankful placemats, played bingo, and the big hit was the Happy Meals they each got! What a fun day!

A day of volunteering...

Today was such a fun day...I got to go and volunteer in Luke's classroom. All I did was sit and cut out things for the teacher, and yet I had the BEST time! The kids were away at the computer lab when I first got there and so I had a chance to visit with Mrs. Lipsit. She said such nice things about Luke. She said he tries so hard and she loves the twinkle in his eyes when he just figured something out or when he learns something new that he is excited about. She was impressed with his reading and she said he is a good listener and she never has problems with him in class. Every mom's dream to hear those things about her child!

I got to sit and see how his sweet teacher interacts with them. She calls them all her "friends" and she is so loving with them. I can see why they all respect her so much, because she respects them! She was always saying her please and thank yous and the kids respond to her VERY well. It just so happened that today was Luke's FIRST actual spelling test, up to this point they have been doing practice tests. So it is so fun that I was there for it! We practiced hard all week and even this morning just before school. She said the first word and I couldn't help but look across the room to see if Luke was writing. His back was to me and after he got done he turned around and gave me a thumbs up...right after his teacher said "No looking around the room" :)

I stayed until lunch and I got to sit and eat lunch with Luke. If the parents come for lunch they have to sit outside in the inner court area with their child. I almost teared up, it is not very often that you get to sit one on one in a quiet setting and just talk. I don't get to do this very often because of Gavin, so it was nice of my friend Colleen to watch him so I could be at the school today!

Right after that I ran to Emma's school to meet with her teacher to plan the Halloween party for her class. Fun, fun!