School Stuff

Environmental Center Fieldtrip

The fourth grade had a fun fieldtrip to the Environmental Center a couple of weeks ago. They got to do archery, rock wall climbing, ping-pong, Frisbee golf, and geo-caching. It was right up Nate’s alley, so I signed him to go. Ben loved every part of it. Fieldtrips have sure gotten cooler since I was a kid.


Zoo Fieldtrip

Emily’s fieldtrip was the same day as Ben’s. They went to the zoo and she had lots of fun. Her favorites were watching the baby elephant play with a little swimming pool, seeing the giraffe’s blue tongue (and seeing it pee), and watching a monkey squish its lips up against the fence. She had a great day and must have worn herself out because she fell asleep on the bus ride home. Luckily my neighbor was the parent helper for Emily’s group and gave me some pictures.


Crazy Hair Day

The last time the kids had crazy hair day at school was when Ben was in first grade. I put a bunch of gel in his hair and spiked it up.


He wanted that exact same thing this year. Unfortunately I couldn’t really spike ½ inch long hair. So, we broke out a can of green hairspray and went wild. The girls got all kinds of crazy stuff . . . their favorites were the ping pong balls in their ponytails. When we were done they wanted green hairspray too. It was certainly crazy. I love how Ben’s head matches the grass.


Coloring Contest

Emily won her class Halloween coloring contest with this picture. She was very excited.


Box Tops

We had another Box Tops collection drive this month. My kids were AWESOME and helped me clip and count them to get them ready. The girls get so excited about the “bendy” ones and the “two-ies” (the ones with bonuses). I’m glad they love it because it saves me a lot of time to have them help. We counted 10,000+ Box Tops this time . . . that’s over $1,000 for the school. Wahoo.

Treehouse Fieldtrip

Tuesday was the kindergarten fieldtrip to the Treehouse Museum. Elise was very excited about riding the school bus for the first time. It might have been the highlight of the whole trip for her. Abby and I went along to help. We mostly had a good time. Elise was a little sad when she was one of five unlucky kids who didn’t get picked to participate in the play they put on. It was salt in her wounds when her fieldtrip buddy got to do that AND got picked to dress up like a princess at their next rotation. It was a good life lesson for her that things aren’t always fair. It was a good life lesson for me that I can’t/shouldn’t always try to make life fair for my kids. Kindergarten is hard! :)



We are having a great year so far. I’ve been really impressed by all of the kids’ teachers and they are all learning lots in their classes. Parent teacher conferences are next week. Hopefully we won’t have any surprises.