K6 Christmas party

For Christmas the parents were invited to come and spend an afternoon with our kindergarten student, seeing what they do. We got to have free center time with our child as our guide. Katherine was so proud to show me around her classroom and to teach me how to do everything.

 Her favorite is the computer center. In her classroom it is up in a loft. 

Katherine is showing me how to paint on the computer. 

This is Katherine's buddy Max and his mom, Lauren. Lauren and I both attended TCA and were in carpool together when we were in elementary. 

Talking on the phone at the home center. I don't think she needs to practice that skill!

These kids are amazing with technology. She knows how to use that smart board!

They had motions for the 12 days of Christmas.

Our gingerbread house was full of candy. 

First week of school

Katherine had a wonderful first week of school. She LOVES kindergarten! She has such a sweet teacher and a sweet class. We are so lucky that there are only 9 students in her class with a teacher and full time aid. It is the perfect transition to big kid school.

The kids have not been able to go to the playground much because it is so HOT! They got to go out on Friday when they go to school earlier and it is not so hot.
Every day the kids get to go to centers. Katherine's favorite is red when she gets to do science, computers and home center.
We did not have time the first day of school to take pictures in front of the school's front sign. Since I graduated from this school I have many memories of climbing on this sign at lunch time. That was before all of the landscaping so I think they don't want kids climbing anymore.

First Day of Kindergarten

Wow! Katherine has started kindergarten and at my Alma matter too. It is hard to believe that she is old enough to be in big kid school. This was a big year for our family, choosing what school she would attend but the plus was that when it was time to drop her off for her first day, I was excited, not sad. Sure there are some sentimental and sad moments, mainly because I will miss some of our time together and the fact that I can't believe she is in kindergarten. But, she is ready and we chose to go to a half day program so I will still get to spend a lot of time with Katherine.

I love how cute she looks in that plaid. I spent 9 years of my life wearing that same plaid (though never in the cute jumper).

The whole family went to lunch and then to the school. Caroline was the most sad of us all. She is losing her best friend and playmate. She does not really know how to play on her own as she has always had Katherine.

In front of the school ready to go in.

Katherine did not want us to come in with her and she did not want to stop to take pictures. She was ready for kindergarten. In fact, she woke up early and was ready to get dressed long before we needed to be ready. We are in the afternoon class so we had plenty of time at home.

We walked in and she was ready to lead the way to her class. She knew right where to go.
Here is her wonderful teacher. She has been teaching at TCA for 21 years and is kind of a legend. She has been compared to Mrs. Frizzle from the Magic School Bus so Katherine is very excited.
Caroline can't be left out!

She went right to her seat and started working. Her school has 5 kindergarten classes of full day and one teacher who does a morning and an afternoon class. Katherine's class is the smallest. There are 9 students, a teacher and a full time aid (who did not get captured on film somehow!).

There are 4 little girls. They played earlier this week and are going to be such sweet friends.
Poor Caroline is so sad she is not in Kindergarten.



After dropping off Katherine, Caroline and I met two other moms and the younger siblings at the mall to get to know one another and fill our time. The first few days are even shorter than normal due to people figuring out carpool. We live 30 minutes away so it does not make sense to go home.
After school we went with our good friends to Braum's for ice cream. You can tell that Katherine and Emma had a great day.
Eating ice cream with friends Morgan and Emma.

Pre-K Graduation

We had a sweet little class performance and graduation ceremony for Katherine's Pre-K. Her class had 16 students. They sang about 8 songs. It was so cute.

Each student's name was called and they went to get a certificate and necklace from their teachers.

Katherine is pretty proud of her certificate!

We went back to the class where each student received their yearbook. The teachers collect pictures throughout the year and put them in a book.
There was a raffle to win the class quilt and we won!