Rainbow Station

I just wanted a reminder here of how much we love Em's school.  She has such a sparkling personality that I'm sure she would have blossomed anywhere, but the change we made to move her there has been one of our best decisions as parents.

She learns cool things every day, and her teachers have great stories for us almost every afternoon.  One day this week, Mick picked her up and Ms. Lindsay told him that Em had gone to use the bathroom after nap time, and after a while, she walked out and all of her clothes were on inside out.  Ms. Lindsay asked her if she had changed her clothes around in the bathroom, and Em (with a completely straight face) replied "no, a cow did it!"

They learned a song one day about Tiny Tim the Turtle, and Em must have sang it fifty times that night!  Between acting like a clown and performing, it took me a while to get a video of her actually singing it.

They're working their way through the alphabet learning letters, and she can identify most of the letters of the alphabet now (they're on O).  She can tell us what they sound like and some things that start with the letter too--each week on Friday, their Show & Share is to bring something in that starts with the letter of the week, which helps her remember.  I'll tell you though, some of those letters are tough!  I've definitely googled ideas on a Friday morning on more than one occasion!

One of my favorite things is the values they reinforce--one day, Em and I picked up a pizza for dinner on the way home, and as we walked out, she reached up to help me carry it and said "Mommy, let's use teamwork!"  Mick and I have occasionally used that idea to help her understand that we need her to cooperate and act like a teammate with us.

We were playing the other night, and she had the tweezers from her doctor kit and told me she was "practicing her fine motor skills."  That one really threw me for a loop--but she listens to everything, even when we don't think she's paying attention.  She later told me Ms. Mandy told her that.