The Winning Bookmark

Tea participated in the bookmark contest through her kindergarten class. Here is her entry. It is very hard to see - if you would like your own copy, leave me a comment and I will get you one!






It was chosen as the district wide winner for kindergarten! Holy cow!












Here she is with the principal of the school and the president of the WEA (who happened to be a teacher at McQueen when I went there).

For her efforts, Tea earned a gift certificate to Barnes and Noble, a framed award certificate, a free kids meal at Mimi's, a free kids pizza at Round Table and 5 bucks for the school store. Plus, the whole class got cookies!




The PTO also gave Tea an award, along with the other two winners from the school. Tea received a sketch book, tempura paints, watercolors and crayons, watercolor paper and art paper.




There were three winners from Tea's school - Kindergarten, 2nd grade and 6th grade. The 6th grade winner won the entire contest, district wide, for all grades, K - 12!

February

Let's see . . .

Valentine's Day

More Cookie Sales

More work for momma.

Here are pictures.




Goodie bags for the helpers.








Voting on their favorite color of Conversation Hearts









The poll.

100th Day of School

This one deserved it's own post.

Tea's class had lots of fun celebrating the 100th Day of School (a little bit early, but partying on Friday is much better than partying on Monday!)



They made necklaces of 100 fruit loops, they made hats that had 100 stamps on them, and earlier in the week, they turned in posters with 100 items on them.






The best part - getting to pop 100 balloons in 100 seconds. The best part for the adults? Having the kids pick up 100 broken balloons in 100 seconds ;)















Here's the video . . .

January

Oh, man, have I been bad! My only excuse is that I work part time for H & R Block, and we are busy. Let us reflect on January . . .






We took the kids to see Thomas the Train at Lawlor - that was a ton of fun.

































We also took our Daisy Troop to a Cookie Rally - yes cookies sales started in January. The girls learned about safety and recycling and they got to taste test the cookies!





















We also had an investiture ceremony, where they all officially became Girl Scout Daisies. There are 11 girls in our troop, 2 first graders and 1 girl from the morning kindergarten class. The rest of the girls are in Tea's afternoon kindergarten class. They are a joy to work with and I enjoy seeing them come out of their shells!











And for good measure - my two cute kiddos!