Tuesday, December 20, 2011

S is for Started Kindergarten, Sophie

Back in Aug. Sophie started Kindergarten. Her teacher is Mrs. Littlefeild and Sophie just loves her. She is young, no kids yet and from California. Sophie goes in the mornings at 11:30 so we have some time in the morning to take it easy.
She is excited that she can read (a little) and sometimes just makes up words that she thinks fits better with the story while she goes along. She loves to play with My Little Ponies and keeps wanting to add to her collection. She watches You Tube videos of My Little Pony toys that kids get and lets me know what she wants her next one to be.
Before school started she lost her first tooth and got her hair cut in a short bob.

I got to go on the field trip to Cornbellies right before Halloween with Sophie's class. That was fun taking them around to the jumping pillows, the wooden play sets, the duck races, the corn maze, and the straw play set with slides. The picture of us above is on the tractor hay ride we did at the end.
This is a picture of Sophie at Jocelyn (her cousin) and Ty's wedding reception in August. She had a great time!
Sophie being a reindeer at the school sing along. The kindergartners sang Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer. They had a Polar Express party in class also for their last day before Christmas break.
For her birthday (last Friday), she brought a book to class with a picture of her in the front cover with her signed name. She chose There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell. She instructed me (after we had bought the book) that I needed to sing it when I read. I love this idea her teacher has instead of bringing in treats. Sophie sat right in front of me and giggled the whole time. She is such a happy girl!
She had a kitty party on Sat. She wore a new pink kitty shirt. We made tails and ears for all the girls. We made little collars and then I did a shrinky dink tag for each of them with their names on it. They loved to watch them melt and shrink with my embossing heat gun. We made kitty heads with pipe cleaners for whiskers and played pin the tail on the kitty and a mice toss into the kitty's mouth. Sophie made a little sign that said "Fansy (she sounded it out herself) Feast" for the goldfish crackers she put in a bowl on the floor. She loved opening her gifts and was so excited about the things she got. She wasn't interested in cake or ice cream. Nanny Nette helped make a kitty cake for her and helped me all day get ready for the party. Grandpa took Scotty on a Walmart shopping trip to get him out of our hair for a couple hours. It was wonderful having the extra help. Scotty took a HUGE nap and slept through the whole party, it was great! At the end we gave each girl a frosted pillow box with a thank you note (her invites were similar) and we put a Kit Kat bar, goldfish crackers, mouse, her tail, ears, and collar (if she wanted to take them off), and her kitty she made. Sophie was was so happy with how it all went and how many of her friends came! It was a great 6th birthday!




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