Room Mom Halloween Party

 This year, I volunteered to be Karmindy's Room mom for her kindergarten class. It has been so fun to not only volunteer and help out with centers every other week but it has been very fun to plan her class parties. I have really enjoyed it and Karmindy has enjoyed having me come into her class room to help out. On the day of Karmindy's party I had several fun centers for the kids to rotate around too. The kids played boo bowling where they rolled a Styrofoam pumpkin into paper towels dressed up like ghosts, the kids made spiders out of paper plates, ate donuts and apple juice, read a spooky Halloween Story and colored cute coloring pages. The kids had such a fun time and seemed to enjoy all the centers that I had planned. I love being a room mom and hope to be Kaleb's room mom next year!

The Puppet Master

Kaleb has become an official puppet master! Over the past month, his teacher, Mrs. Goodman has worked with her second grade class to write their own puppet plays and make their own individual puppets. The class was split into groups of 4 to 5 and they were assigned to come up with a mixed up fairy tale. Kaleb's group chose the Bear and the Goldilocks Family. Everyone of the students wrote their own parts for the puppet play and made their own props. After writing their own parts, each student made their own puppet character. They made the puppets body out of paper mache, sewed their own costumes and added their own embellishments like hats, hair, lips, wiggly eyes and earings. I was able to go in on the day that they were putting on the embellishments and it was so fun to help the kids and see the puppets come together. I am also grateful that I got to help Kaleb a little bit with his puppet. He was Papa Goldilocks! I also was able to help Kaleb put hair on his puppet. He seemed so happy to have me in his class helping and I am so grateful when I can go in and  help.

Last week, the parents were invited to come and view the puppet plays. It was so fun to watch all the plays and see how creative all of the kids were with writing their own parts and putting a spin on the traditional fairy tale. I loved all their mixed up fairy tale stories! So cute and creative. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get any pictures of Kaleb while he was performing his play but I did get a picture of him with his puppet when he brought it home from school today. I am so proud of Kaleb and the hard work that he puts into each of his projects at school. He is a very creative and so hard working!

Gingerbread Houses & Christmas Trees

I have been so thankful to be able to have the opportunity to spend time with my kids in their classes. I look forward to volunteering in each of their classrooms. I was able to go in and help Karmindy in her preschool class this month. Her class frosted and decorated Christmas Trees with candy. Karmindy loved frosting and decorating her Christmas tree and took such great care in decorating it. She wanted it to look just right!!!

I also had the opportunity to go in and help in Kaleb's class too! I am grateful he hasn't reached the age yet were he is embarrassed by me coming in to help. I like that he still gets excited to see me. Kaleb also did a great job decorating his house. He is so artistic and it is fun to watch him be creative.

I love both my kids and I am so grateful that I got a chance to help out in both of their classrooms this month and spend some quality time with each of them. I am so grateful to be their mom and I feel so blessed to have such sweet kids.