Meet the Twins

These two little cuties showed up yesterday dressed the same. Thanks to my BFF Kathe, and her quick camera skills, we were able to capture the blessed event. Thanks.

I remember when I was a third grader and we would trade shoes with all the other girls. We would LOVE dressing alike and usually planned for the whole dress alike events. This one, however, was totally unplanned. I'm pretty sure that they didn't even know they had the same little frock.

I only wish I had been there to see it for myself. I missed it because of a bit of toe surgery I had that day.

Aren't they adorable? Katja and Chloe adorable!

Radkids: A Photo Journal

A few weeks ago, our class was privileged to receive instruction about Radkids. What is Radkids? Well...

A National Leader
radKIDS^® is the national leader in children's safety education and provides the only holistic, practical and realistic life skills safety program available for children and parents today. radKIDS^® teaches children individually in an activity based hands-on training classroom, which means every child participates in all activities.

The children loved it. They are still talking about it. Here are a bunch (and I do mean "a bunch") of photos from the week. Thanks to Samuel's mom for taking the pictures and for leaving her camera for me to try out! :)

The children listening intently.

"Peppering"

Kyara is so cute, but I can't resist this picture of Ethan!

This one is even better.

(Kaysen, Zack, and Ethan)

Our favorite four-year-old, Chloe, Katja's sister.

A Day In The Life...

February 2 Was Our 100th Day of School

All the students are in disguise! Can you find your first grader??

Pajama Day 2010!

Do you remember before Christmas we had a canned food drive? Well, one of the goals was to fill at least eight of these round bins. If we did, we earned a pajama day.

Well, we did. And...we did:

Best buds: Silver, Chloe, and Samuel

Table friends: Eden and Melany

Sweet little Jose

The "yellow table": Gage, Zack, Tristan, Lizbeth, and Ashley

What birthdays are like in our class:

Last Friday we celebrated Gage's birthday. I realized then that I hadn't written about out tradition of celebrating birthdays. It is one of my very favorite things we do in class. Here's how it goes:

• The birthday student sits in the center of the rug.

• Everyone else sits around the rug looking at the birthday student.

• As you know, our class mascot is the ever loving rubber ducky. I begin the celebration by holding the duck and telling one thing I like/love about the birthday student.

• Then, I give the duck a squeeze and pass it to the next person who says what they like about the birthday student...squeeze it...pass it on.

• OPTIONAL: if the birthday student has brought a treat for the class, they pass it out to their fellow classmate after receiving the comment.

• Once the duck makes it around the circle, I wipe off the germs with a Clorox wipe and give it to the birthday student.

• Next, The birthday student gets to stand on top of the table while we all sing Happy Birthday complete with the whole "cha cha cha".

Voila! That's how it happens. We all love it. And, it only takes about 15 minutes.

Something Fishy in Class Today!

I didn't even realize that these things were still around. Cute little Lizbeth brought the singing bass for show and tell. These things always make me smile.