This Reminds Me

Julia is Star Student this week in her class, a weekly rotating honor for her 22 kindergarten peers.

Star Students get to display a classroom poster about themselves.  Most have baby and toddler pictures affixed to them.  (yawn)  Rachel - the creative force in our house – decided we’d do “something different.”

Rachel covered Julia’s Star Student board with green cloth and trimmed it in rainbow braid.  We glued 3D objects to give it depth – shells, foam letters, wooden art, mini blocks, etc.  When she presented it to the class, Julia explained each picture, dwelling on the Fiesta Texas shot. Special thanks to Vicki for hauling the board to school, saving it from certain doom on the school bus.

The parents of Star Students are invited to read to the class, and participate in Show & Tell.  Tuesday, Keith took his Russian hat, hidden in a bag.  The first two clues (“It came from Russia.  It’s made of fur.”) were elusive, but the third – “You wear it on your head” – nailed it for the scholar who correctly guessed it was a hat.

Keith, a.k.a., Boris – admire it again by clicking here.

Keith read a Russian fairy tale (in English) to the class, and showed them a book of Russian fairy tales in Cyrillic.  Julia called out the Russian alphabet to her friends.

Not to be outdone….I snagged Julia and I lunch at Sonic today, and we ate together in the school cafeteria.  The mother in me continually offered napkins to sticky little faces being wiped on shirt sleeves.

Sonic’s “chicken y fries” is the bomb, especially when followed by two bananas.

After lunch,  I read her class two epic thrillers – The Berenstein Bears On Vacation, and Tom. 

Now I feel like doing a little singing:

Twinkle, twinkle Little Star
How glad we are you’ve come so far
Home at last, and doing well
What you’ll be, time will tell
Twinkle, twinkle Little Star
How glad we are you’ve come so far