Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school. Show all posts

Sunday, March 06, 2011

Jackson Loves Preschool

Every couple of weeks in Jack's preschool class the spotlight a child. Two weeks ago it was Jack's turn. We decorated a poster all about him and he got to present it to the class.


He sure loves school, and is so well behaved there. It's makes me happy when he comes home and tells me what he learned. They really do have a great preschool program at our local school. They are losing Title 1 funding this year though, and that will put the cost out of our budget to send Evan next year and it makes me sad. Evan will be okay & I will try to compensate at home. I hope they can find a way to get funding back in the future. I have a feeling their classes will be much smaller this coming year.
This past week they had "Wacky Wednesday." The kids got to dress up as wacky as they wanted. Jackson wouldn't let me do a thing to him last year, but he was more willing this year. He had green dinosaur spikes in his hair, wore his shirt, jacket & backpack backwards and wore two different shoes. Love that Jak-Jak!

Friday, December 24, 2010

Monticello Christmas Program

Daniel had his Christmas program at school this Tuesday. I should say "Holiday" program because not one of the songs they sang mentioned the real reason for the season. He did a great job singing though, and had fun.



I helped out that afternoon in his class with their Christmas party. They played a game, did some crafts and decorated cookies. It wasn't quite as insane as their Halloween party, but they were still pretty hyper. Gotta love 1st graders.

Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Jack got his school picture back the other day. Here it is. I think it is way cute - even with the bruise on his forehead!

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

First Grade Portraits

Daniel came home with his school picture yesterday. I love it!

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

First Days of School

Daniel started school on August 23. He was so excited. I love that he loves school, and I really like his new school. We still aren't 100% sure if it is the best place for him but we will follow the year through and see how he does.


Daniel's school had a back to school night the week after school started and I took this picture of him in his seat in class. I am very impressed with his teacher and with the curriculum thus far. I think the school will be great for all of our boys, when they all get there.

Jackson started on September 8. He really loves school too. According to his teaches he is very well behaved at school and so quiet that they have to ask him to speak up when he answers questions. It's funny how kids can be one way at home and totally different at school.

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Labor Day in Caldwell and Jackson in School

This past weekend we had an awesome trip to Idaho to see Keith and Kathy and their family. We left Friday morning and drove up in a rental car. I tried to read on the way up and ended up giving myself a migraine that lasted until Saturday evening. Yuck! Luckily, we were on vacation and I could just try to sleep it off while Gary took the boys. Friday we had a picnic in Boise then came home and played Sequence with Keith and Kathy while the kiddos watched a movie. 
 Saturday, Kathy had to take Skyler to the hospital, so Keith took Gary , Dan and Jack out on their boat while I tried to sleep off the headache with Evan.
In the afternoon we relaxed, had a BBQ dinner and watched the BYU/Oklahoma game. Keith also let Gary and I take his Corvette out for a drive. Wow. That was awesome. Everything I'll ever drive from now on will pale in comparison to the power that had. Even the rental car (a Dodge Charger) was gutless after driving the 'Vette. Nothing like going 0-60 in less than five seconds. 
That night Gary, Kathy and I stayed up until almost midnight playing Bananagrams. Good thing church wasn't until 1pm!
Sunday we went to church with Keith's family. Jack and Evan went to nursery just fine, but I had to sit through half of Primary with Daniel, who was sobbing by the time I dragged him into the Primary room. Thankfully he was fine by the time his class left for their lesson and I was at least able to make it to Relief Society. Thanks evening Granny, Opa and Eric stopped by one their way home from Washington. They had been to Gary's nephew Ryan's wedding. We had brownies with them and some of Kathy's family that also came over. After dessert we played Bananagrams some more while the boys jumped on the trampoline. Daniel managed to whack his head on the spring and came up with blood running down his face. He had a pretty good cut that I thought needed stitches. Kathy called a nurse in their ward and she said the ER was packed and not to go. So we then called the pediatrician in their ward and he told us how to do a "bandage suture" to close the cut. It worked and it has closed now. I'm still keeping it "sutured" for now, until I am comfortable just putting a bandaid on it. Hopefully it won't scar badly. He went right back to the trampoline after we bandaged him up, so it couldn't have been too traumatic.
We headed home on Monday. We stopped at Shoshone Falls on the way back. The boys really like water falls and these were pretty cool. 
We made it back around 6pm, did a quick cleaning of the house and fell into bed. It really was a great weekend.
Today was the Open House for Jack's preschool. We took Dan to class, then went to Mrs. Payne's class. Just after we walked in another mom from the class came in with her 10 month old baby who was having a seizure and the teachers called 911 and the paramedics came and took them to the hospital. The lady's son is in Jack's class and her twin daughters are in Daniels class. I hope the baby is okay. She is such a cute, sweet little thing.
Other than the suprising start to the day, Jack did fine. He wasn't nearly as excited for his first day as Daniel was. Daniel was excited for Jack to go to preschool and was asking him all sorts of questions after school, like where was his cubby and what color he colored his person. So cute. I hope he has a good experience in school. He has a great teacher, so that is a good place to start.
I am starting to watch two other kids during the day this week. It will be a new adventure for me (and maybe test me out to see if I could handle having any more of my own.)

Thursday, August 27, 2009

School Pictures

Daniel got his school pictures back yesterday. I can't help but think he looks so much older than last year.

Saturday, June 06, 2009

Updates

I haven't been very diligent about blogging lately. I do have things to blog about, but they get overlooked. I'll try to get some of them down.
One, Daniel graduated from preschool. He was so cute singing his songs and is so excited to be a kindergartner now. Grandpa Johnson came to see him graduate, as did his brothers. Jackson just had to participate in singing the songs, even though he didn't know a word! They had a slide show of pictures from the year that was so cute. When ever the picture changed the kids would call out who was in the picture. Daniel got really excited every time he saw himself and would call back to me "Mama, that's me!" It was so cute. I can't believe he is going to kindergarten at the end of July. We are still on the waiting list for the charter school, but I am going to send him to the school here just in case he doesn't get in to the charter school. And even if he does get in, it may not be until the middle of the school year.
On Memorial Day we went to a BBQ at Gary's parents house. His brothers Craig, Russ and Eric were there, along with Russ's kids, Tammy and her kids, Leia and her Mom and Craig's son Jason. Jason is visiting from North Carolina. We haven't seen him for alomost 7 year so it is good to see him again. He is very tall - 6'7" I believe. We had to take a photo of all the boys for comparison. I wouldn't be a bit suprised if Dan is over six feet tall when he is grown.
Evan is walking like a pro now. He rarely crawls. It is so cute to see him toddling all over the place. He thinks it is great fun and is very pleased with himself.
Daniel started reading a little while ago and is doing so well. He is very good at memorizing words and sounding new ones out. I am so proud of him. He is such a smarty pants.
I have been keeping busy scrapbooking for my CT. I am really enjoying it and it is giving me a chance to catch up on past scrapbooking that needs to be done. I finally have my digi-scrapping blog looking the way I want it to. Designing and formatting it myself took some trial and error but I am very happy with the results. Someday maybe I'll redo this one. I was chose as Layout of the Day over at Brownie Scraps again too. If you want to see the page you'll have to head over to the other blog. I'm trying not to post scrapbook pages on the family blog, just photos.
In other family news, we sold our old van and bought a new one. It looks like our old one but it is a year newer, has more options and 40K less miles than the old one. It is also a Grand Caravan so it has some extra cargo room as well. That will be nice for camping this year.
That's all for now. Two more pics, from today.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Happenings

My recent lack of blogging hasn't anything to do with there not being anything going on. On the contrary we have done a lot in the past week - I'm just getting lazy. So here you go, a little update with pictures.
First, Evan is finally walking! He is sixteen months old and the past week he has just taken off. About the only time he only crawls now to get to something to pull himself up on and take off walking. He thinks he is so cool. Dan and Jack are pretty excited about it too. "Now we can teach him to run!" they say.
Dan's last day of preschool was yesterday. They had a little slideshow and presentation for the kids and parents. The kids were so cute, naming everyone as their picture came up. When Dan would see himself he would yell "That's me!" They gave us the show on disc so I am hoping to get some pictures off it for his school scrapbook.
Last week they had the Family Picnic for his preschool. I went with all the boys and they played, had lunch and played some more. They had a ton of fun with the huge parachute.Other than that, we are getting our garden in and I am trying to get some scrapbooking done. This last page is just some fun pictures we took the other night when we went to the school and played on their playground for FHE.

GD139: I am grateful to live so close to our families. It is fun for the boys to have their grandparents come to things like the preschool graduation and to see them weekly (at least).
WFD: Leftovers

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Field Trip: Hogle Zoo

Daniel's preschool class took a field trip to Hogle Zoo on Monday. I went along (thanks to Gary's parents!) and we had a fun morning. On Daniel's must see list: Peccaries, Monkeys, Elephants and Penguins.Today is his un-birthday at school. They celebrate un-birthdays for those kids who have summer birthdays. Nice though, huh? He is so excited to pick a prize out of the surprise bag and to bring the Bolt cupcakes I made last night. Such simple things make them happy. :)

GD126: I'm grateful to be a stay-st-home Mom. I get to spend the day with three of my favorite people in the world!
WFD: Maybe, soup?

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Wacky Wednesday

Today was Wacky Wednesday in Daniel's preschool class. Dan was really excited so we went all out. I put his hair up in little spikes and painted it green. He wore his clothes and backpack backwards and wore two different shoes. He wanted to wear his underwear backwards too, but I drew the line there. No one would see those. He had a lot of fun and got a lot of attention.Dan and Samantha were the two wackiest kids, in my opinion anyway.Daniel and Mrs. Payne.Jack had to have his picture taken too.

GD70: I am grateful for Gary's job and that his company is still doing good in this economy.

WFD: Homemade Authentic Crispy Tacos