Tonight we dropped Anna off to play with her friend Nikki and took Carrie to her open house night.\u00a0 I was a little preoccupied with signing up to help out with events at first (and making sure we got a good time slot for parent teacher conferences!) but when I looked around the room at everything the class has been doing for the past two weeks I was suitably impressed.\u00a0 They have a chart of jobs that are assigned weekly – last week, Carrie was line leader.\u00a0 This week she has been the pledge leader.\u00a0 And she has the entire pledge of allegience memorized!\u00a0 They also have a class bunny, Jumping Jack (J.J. for short).\u00a0 They were looking for volunteers to watch J.J. over a break week, but I think the dogs might eat him!<\/p>\n
We walked around the school to visit all the “specials” rooms (art, music, P.E.) but none of the teachers for those classes were there tonight.\u00a0 And then we hit the book fair.\u00a0 Oh, how they get you hooked in the book fair.\u00a0 It all started when they sent Carrie home a couple of days ago with a free book (complements of the PTSA) and a laboriously hand-written list of the books that she wanted.\u00a0 I ask you, how can any parent resist the list?\u00a0 She had even tried to duplicate the font style for Knuffle Bunny Too, with little horizontal lines at the tops and bottoms of all the letters.\u00a0 So we came home with a few books…despite having just turned in a Scholastic order form two days ago.\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I do like what I’ve seen so far of this multi-age environment, and Carrie seems to be settling in well.\u00a0 Her teacher made sure to tell us that she loves Carrie’s imagination.\u00a0 Apparently she was dancing around the playground with one arm sticking straight out, saying “Today, I am a telescope!” at recess this afternoon.\u00a0 That’s my Carrie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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