Happy 4th Birthday Gracie Howard!

Today my friend Gracie Howard turned 4. The first photo is of the four girl buddies from left to right (Gracie Howard, Taylor McCall, Mary Catherine Rawlinson and Izzy Villar). Gracie had an ariel pool party at the Darlington Country Club pool. On the way to the party we were watching the storm clouds and hoping they would pass the party by. Almost as soon as we got to the party, everyone had to get out of the pool and go inside while there was thunder and lighting. We had such a good time anyway. Mrs. Lindsey had some yummy hot dogs, chips, ice cream and cake. Almost as soon as we finished eating our yummy snacks the pool was open again. We went back in swimming. It was a great party. Gracie gave us these really neat princess rings and earrings. I played with them all the way home from the party. I was glad to see my perky puppy buddies- Izzy, Gracie, Taylor, Austin, and Zach. We jumped, hugged and played so hard. I am also getting to make some new friends like Lauren Olsen, Mikala, Chandler and Phillip Villar. We had a great time. HAPPY 4th Birthday Gracie!

Happy 5th Birthday Izzy!

Today was my friend Izzy Villar's birthday party. She had a tea party birthday at top hat teas. My girl friends from All Saints and I had so much fun. We had a lady put makeup on us, we played dress up and walked on the "runway" like models. We then had a tea party with all kinds of special tea party treats. After Izzy opened her presents then we had some really yummy birthday cake. What fun we had at Top Hat Teas. Happy 5th Birthday Izzy!

Week One- The Jungle Vine

We have had a great first week exploring all the fun places in our 4K jungle. We are learning our school and classroom rules. Next week we will begin our discipline plan. It was lots of fun sharing our "What Makes Me Roar" bags. We learned alot about each other,

We have read lots of books about going to school this week but the Kissing Hand seemed to be our favorite. Chester, the raccoon, actually came to our school and lead us on a chase. We never found him but did get to meet all of our special teachers along the way. Best of all, he left us a special handprint sugar cookies with a heart.

We have also been working on our fine motor skills and writting our first names. We have homework this week...prewritting practice sheets. Correct formation is very important as we do one each day. Last week we learned to write, spell and recognize the words RED, BLUE and ONE. We will continue to learn about other colors next week.

Below is a link to our school web site and our class news. http://www.allsaintsepiscopaldayschool.com/article90051.htm

Welcome to the Jungle- 4K Ms. Boinnoitt

Today was Mary Catherine's first day in the 4K jungle. She looked so grown up. I almost cried when she got ready for school and it was time to take the annual before school photos. She has really gotten tall. She took her new Hello Kitty backpack (believe it or not---no princesses this year). The backpack also came with a purse. She is modeling it in the before school photos. This year she is in Ms. Kim Boinnoit's 4-K class at All Saints Day School. She and her classmates are called the fast cheetahs and their room is called the jungle. Today school started at 9am and was over at 11am. Tomorrow they will start at 8 and will not get out until 2:15pm. Mary Catherine is very excited that her best bud RJ Lee is in her class this year (yes, that is RJ across the table from her--but they promise me they are being very good). This smart group of 4 year olds have already started learning about things that are similar and different. Tomorrow they begin a review of colors. Mary Catherine has completed her home work for the day. She had to cut out pictures of something green, something red and something blue. She did great!

Swim Lessons- Pikes second time around!!!

We PASSED! Mary Catherine finally decided to put her head in the water and hold her breath. We were so happy. She is swimming really well now. She still has a noodle or a life jacket type devise when she goes into water over her head. She doesn't swim all of the time with her head under the water but atleast she will put her head under from time to time. She can jump in off of the side and swim the length of the pool. She has been practicing going down the big slide ay the YMCA. We are going to go ahead and take the next level swim class this fall.