Multicultural Day and Open House

Brandon had a great experience at Sumner-Danbury's annual Multicultural Day. Each classroom in the entire school represents a different country. Many weeks of preparation are put into this event and it was extremely evident as I saw the various classrooms. They were all amazing! On this special day, the students are assigned two "countries" to go to, and they even have a "passport!" Brandon and London went to "India" first. Here they learned a stick game. By the way, I LOVE LOVE this picture of London!
The next county to see was "Mexico." Brandon enjoyed making a mask and eating chips and salsa.

Our classroom represented "Canada," therefore the kindergartners were "Canadian Mounted Police" for the day. So super cute!

Then the entire school sat together to say "hello" in their countries language and to sing a couple of songs.
Later that night it was Open House. Brandon enjoyed showing me some of the things he has done this past year in Kindergarten (even though I have been there helping out several times a week and have already seen it all!)
Here is Brandon and his beautiful teacher Mrs. K. in front of "Niagara Falls." I love her to pieces. Maybe I say that too much, but I just do. ;)
Cutie London and Mrs. K.
After visiting our classroom and many others, we ended the night by finding Canada's flag amongst many other flags from around the world. London started singing the Canadian National Anthem...LOVE HER! ;)

The fun never ends at Papa John and Nana's!

Just when Brandon thought that a visit to Papa John and Nana's house couldn't be any more fun, they went and bought Kayaks. I think we have hit maximum fun capacity!
It was a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. Nothing better than family and a gorgeous day at the beach.

fifth one gone...

Two weeks ago something big happened. Brandon took one hard bite down on a bread stick and his right front tooth became very loose. Three hours later and another bite down on a cracker and, POP, it came right out. This is the fifth tooth that Brandon has lost! I was a little bit concerned about how he would look when he lost one or both of his front teeth, but I couldn't hold back the huge smile that came across my face when I saw that big open space for the very first time. Two words- unbelievably adorable. I think he is even cuter now. How is that possible? ;)

Gold Rush!

Brandon and his classmates are studying Canada. They have learned a ton over the past few weeks and they can practically sing the Canadian National Anthem all by themselves. :) The Klondike Gold Rush was super fun to learn about because their fabulous teacher recreated the whole historical event. Here they are looking for GOLD (which was actually little gold painted rocks!) They had the best time becoming "rich!"

Field Trip!

Brandon and his classmates went on a field trip to the Huntington Library. The bus ride was so much fun...a first for Brandon! He got to sit by his two very best buds-London and Demaurea. :)

Here are all the kindergarten friends. What a cute group!

Two super teachers!

Last week we celebrated "Teacher Appreciation Week." It was a fun four days, giving small gifts and goodies to our teachers. On Thursday we surprised them with a pancake brunch.



Our WONDERFUL Mrs K and Ms. Sanchez deserve much much more than just a week of little surprises, but our small display of gratitude will have to do for now. :) They are the very best and all the kindergarten friends are so lucky to be taught by them each and every day. WE LOVE YOU! Thank you for all that you do.

You know your child is growing when...

they eat a bowl of soup and two pieces of toast, THEN Spaghettio's and more toast, THEN pasta and more toast. No joke. Brandon is doing some serious growing. :)