Safety Village

One of the field trips the kindergarten class takes is to Safety Village which is a small, child sized village made to teach children safety practices and run by the fire department and police department.  In the older classes, the kids learn how to escape a house filled with smoke in the case of a fire.  Kindergarten is taught how to be responsible pedestrians and what it is to be a pedestrian.  The officer in charge has been doing this for 28 years and the kids sure seem to get along well with her.

After the kids learned the responsibilities of being a pedestrian and how to be safe, they got to practice it with imaginary cars.  Then, the kids got to drive peg perego cars and 4-wheelers around the village.  Mischief realized she is NOT a fan of motorized bikes!!!  She was very concerned, kept getting hit by the kid behind her, bumped into the kid in front of her and got yelled at by the little brat, and burst into tears!  Poor thing didn't have any fun driving, but she was super cute doing it.

"Just in Case You Ever Wonder"

You all know we read a LOT of books.  And, by a lot, I mean, a lot of books!  We have a double book case full of books just for the kids.  The number of books we have is a little absurd.  It is especially absurd, because the kids know the story line of almost every book on the shelf, except for the new ones they just got for their birthdays!

Anyway, the kids brought me a book tonight called Just in Case You Ever Wonder by Max Lucado.  Max Lucado books are all Christian fiction books.  They are very heavy Christian based story books.  This one is a nice board book, which is very sentimental about no matter what, parents will always love their children, just in case the children ever wonder.

One quote in the book says, "If your grades are bad and your teacher is mad, come to me.... 'cause I love you.  And I always will, just in case you ever wonder."  Most children would get a nice warm feeling about the love of a parent, but Mischief is not most children.  She promptly got all huffy with me and says, "My grades aren't bad, and they won't be.  So, we don't even have to worry about that!"

Guess she's never really wondered...

Rooster Wrangler

Today, Mischief's 4-H club took the llamas and the rooster to the park for the kids' day at the park and to a nursing home.  We have been going to this same nursing home for roughly 15 years, so it's important to keep up with tradition.  Now, Mischief is too young to handle a llama in public or without help, so the mini 4-H'ers do not get to take the llamas anywhere except for their little show in July.  Therefore, we take the resident rooster, Elvis.  Elvis is the holding chicken, and Mischief loves to be his rooster wrangler.  She likes to hold him, carry him around, and ask people if they want to pet her rooster.  She is so stinking cute.  Pretty much the cutest rooster wrangler I've EVER seen.  I'm not sure who the residents like more - Elvis or his wrangler!

Simply a perfect couple!

Even when she set him down because her arms were going to fall off, she had to stay right next to him the whole day!

Farm Field Trip

Today was Mischief's field trip to the farm.  There was mass chaos while the FFA students from some area high schools put on a farm visitation for hundreds of elementary students yesterday and today.  They tried to have it down to a science, but they managed to take too long and not all the kids got to do all the stations.  But, the kids had fun anyway.  They got to milk the fake cow, pet animals, learn about candling eggs, etc.  The class took a group picture, and one of the kids in my group had his hands down his pants "scratching his leg."  Then we had a girl who saw the other kids sleeping on the bus and thought it was cool, so she pretended to sleep and not wake up!  It's always interesting what you're going to get into when you attempt to do anything with kids...

Wheat penny  hunt

Ponytail

The past few months, I have been working a number of jobs.  My mother and husband have been helping with the kids while I keep up with all the schedules, etc.  The other day, I was did not have to work, so I was putting Mischief's hair up in her ponytail.  She says to me, "I miss your ponytails!"  Poor thing.  She really knows how to pull at my heart strings. 

UPDATE:  Mayhem had another swim class today.  I have been working twice a week with him outside of class, and today went a lot better.  We still have a long way to go, but at least we didn't have any tears today!

Happy Birthday Mischief!

Yesterday, my little girl turned 6!  She was so cute and so excited it was her birthday, but she woke up and said, "I haven't grown at all.  Two days ago, when I measured myself, I was almost as tall as a six year old!" 

I subbed at her school yesterday, since she thought it was really cool that I was in her school on her birthday.  Also, I was in the same hall as her, as I was teaching a kindergarten class.  To add to my "why I could never be a teacher list," the teacher I was subbing for, definitely has a puke bucket!  If the kid doesn't feel well, they are to carry around a puke bucket until they feel better or puke!  I had kids begging for the puke bucket!  Gross!

Swim Class Drop-out

Today was Mayhem's first day of swimming lessons.  His sister has been taking swimming lessons for over a year, and she truly loves and enjoys them.  In fact, we use them as a reward for her good behavior at home and school.  Mayhem decided a few weeks ago that he wanted to take swimming lessons. 

Mayhem has been telling me all week how brave he is going to be, jump off the wall, go under water, etc.  Today, he got in the water, his feet didn't touch, and he FREAKED out!!!  Hysterical screaming and crying for a half hour! He announced to everybody that he was scared he was going to sink :(  Poor kiddo.  Now, I must spend hours in the pool breaking him of this...  before he becomes the next swim school drop-out!