PTA

I'm a proud member of the Horace Mann Elementary School PTA! I have looked forward to being a part of the PTA for a long time and look forward to being involved over the next eight years we will be in school there! In fact, all my life when thinking of having kids in elementary I've always planned on being a part of it. I think my main reason for wanting to be a part of the PTA is to learn as much as I can about the school and the people at the school. I don't want to be a helicopter parent; I just want to be in the know about things as much as possible! I'm not signing my life away to the PTA and am selective about what I volunteer for, but I definitely plan to attend each meeting I can and be involved.

Funny story...I told a few friends I was going to the PTA meeting and they could tell my excitement about this. One friend looked at me and said, "You know most of the time the PTA has a class perform a song or something, just to get parents to attend?" The other friend just laughed! We all laughed, actually, because I understand their lack of interest in the PTA and totally get it. And they understand my excitement for it. I guess we need all kinds of people...those excited for PTA and those not excited for PTA...to help make the world go round, don't we?!

Lucy And Mommy

Lucy likes to draw pictures and we think she's very good at it for five years old. Lately, she especially likes to draw pictures of the two of us together. I just love these so much! She drew the picture on the purple paper at home and labeled each picture with the first letter of it's word. She put an R by the rainbow, an M by Mommy, an L by Lucy, an F by the flowers, etc.

The next picture and wording was done on the dry erase board/easel we have in the basement. She actually took the picture of it with my phone because she loves taking pictures of everything like that. I just love her drawing and creativity!

9-1-1

One of Lucy's class activities during the day is to have a project based learning time. A few weeks ago during this time her class learned about safety and ways to stay safe. One of the parts of safety they learned about was 9-1-1 and what it meant to call that number and how to do so. I thought this was great, especially since we haven't ever talked to the girls about this. I think we've discussed needing to do this, but just never have. Then we realized the girls didn't know how to use our phones to make a phone call. They know how to play games, watch videos, and take/look at pictures, but they don't know how to use the phone as it's main function - a telephone. We had a fun night teaching them how to use our phones and calling Gumma and Poppy and Aunt Stephanie. We also practiced calling 9-1-1, and made sure they know to never call this number unless it actually is an emergency.

The drawing below is the phone Lucy drew at school during this unit. I just love her artwork!

The Corner

Poor Molly. She's had to spend a lot of time in the corner lately. Each time I send her to the corner I'm reminded that she is still only 3 1/2 and is exerting every bit of her 3 1/2-year-old age. It's kind of cute seeing her stand in the corner and for the most part she goes there pretty easily and doesn't have to stay very long. :)

Instructshtkins

Molly is at a fun stage where some of the words she's saying aren't quite right. It's so much fun to hear her say them! One example of the work instructions. She says it instructshtkis. Listen to her say it here!