Preschool graduation

We have had the fabulous Miss Katie for preschool for 4 years now. 

This is how the kids looked the first time we headed to Miss Katie's Preschool in September 2011.  They are SO tiny!

Tyler



Emily and Megan

 

Megan and Emily on the first day of school this school year (September 2014)



This was the last day of regular preschool, as the girls came running out.







Taking the walk home--one last time.





Emily and Megan (Here they are showing off their butterflies.  I love that they are holding hands!)

Their last day of preschool was the annual lunch and bounce house party.  The girls loved it.

Our last preschool program.  :(

Megan and Emily



Sitting with their classmates

 

Here are a couple songs from their program.

Alphabet song



Tiny Tim and Baby Bumblebee


We've loved having Miss Katie for preschool.  The girls have learned SO much and have loved every single second.

Afterwards we went to Culver's for frozen custard.

Teacher Appreciation

I was in charge of Teacher Appreciation (May 4-8) at Tyler's school again this year, but I had a few others to help out this year, which was so nice!

We went with a literature book theme.  Each day had a different book featured and corresponding food and gifts to go with it.  (We had 55-ish teachers, administrators and  staff to provide gifts for each day.)

Monday was "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"/"If You Give a Moose a Muffin."  The other ladies that helped brought in breakfast items--bagels, muffins, fruit, etc.  Then they handed out these cute little bags with chocolate in them.  Their poem went with "If you give a teacher a compliment..."





Tuesday's book was "The Very Hungry Caterpillar."  I made all of these bookmarks by hand (yes, I knew it was a bit crazy, but I enjoyed it.  There were 55 teachers and staff to get gifts for.)  We had a salad bar for lunch.









I was too busy keeping the salad bar full to get a good picture, but there were two caterpillar balloons above the salad bar items.



Wednesday  was "Click, Clack Moo Cows That Type."  I made up these little milk cartons and filled them with candy.  Chick-fil-A donated chicken nuggets and salad.





Thursday was a Harry Potter themed day.  They each got a house elf sign:





And then each of the teachers had a chance to come down to "Honeydukes Candy Shop" while a volunteer went into their classroom to have the students write thank you notes to their teachers.















Friday was a Dr. Seuss theme.  We gave all of the teachers and staff some popcorn. 





Then just the teachers and full-time staff were invited to a "Who Feast" in the library.  I picked up the pulled pork and rolls from Texas Roadhouse and another mom came up with the rest.  She did a great job.















We handed out these stadium blankets to the teachers and administration.







I purposely did NOT sign up to decorate a door this year, but as "luck" would have it, one of the parents who volunteered to decorate didn't "show up and deliver."  So I had to hurriedly make this poster up Monday morning.  The secretaries printed of the planets and rocket ship and I did the rest.



Sheesh!  What a lot of work, but the teachers were VERY appreciative.  I removed myself as the "Teacher Appreciation" chairperson for next year and signed up for Field Day--we'll see how that goes.

Frostbite

Several years ago I was a director for Up With Kids, a musical theater program for kids.  This year my kids had the opportunity be a part of Up With Kids, and it was a great experience for them.  The play this year was "Frostbite," a take-off of "Frozen."

The cast performed at an elementary school at the end of April and then for parents and family in May.

Tyler was an orphan and a snowman.  Here he is at the school performance.



Emily was a little troll.  Here she is at the school performance between two "big trolls."



I don't think I got a good picture of Megan at the school.  Here is Emily, Tyler and Megan in their snowmen costumes.



The rest of the pictures are from the performance for family.

Tyler mopping the floor as an orphan



Emily as a troll.



Megan had a speaking part as a snowman. (She's the one on the right on the platform.)



Emily and Megan dancing as snowmen.  (Megan is in the front on the left and Emily is to the right.)



All the little snowmen



Megan had a singing part as a snowman.



Emily dancing (on the left)



Tyler dancing



Tyler had a snowman speaking part



The whole cast for the finale.



 Tyler, Megan and Emily with their "Academy Awards."