Six Was a Mix of Wonderful Memories

You might want to get a glass of tea to sit down and enjoy a long post. I'll wait.
First thing this morning, recent pre-K graduate EK (sister of RK) came by so we could see that she is now officially a kindergartner. (Class of 2025!)
And what came in to our room next? A lot of love, that's what. Today would have been Mrs. O's anniversary. Somehow, the moms in the room knew this and began beating the tom-toms (or posting on the Yahoo group), and yellow roses flooded the classroom. I'm pretty sure they did not know those were the flowers I had in my wedding, and the flowers that Dave gave me each year on my anniversary. My eyes leaked a little, but they were happy and blessed tears. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, sweet families.
More happy news: CB brought the remains of his cast and explained how they cut it off of his leg. (It didn't hurt a bit, he assured us, but we think he is very brave.) He said at first it was hard to walk because he was used to the weight of the cast and he would jerk his leg up very high without it!
Wow! Look at these studious boys. Wonder what they are working so diligently at?
Switch to the other side of the room, and the girls are working hard, too. What could it be?
The release of our 2011 Bumblebee Word Searches! The students had to list 25 or so things about themselves and these were turned into word searches on discovery.com. (If you are a teacher reading this blog, this little project is pure magic for the end of the year.)
Here is the teacher's page with several of the things that she loves.
Last computer class! We had free choice time.
Students from McCallum presented "Alice in Wonderland" for us this afternoon. The best part?
Watching the eyes and faces of the students during the performance.
Oh, how I will miss these sweet faces.
"Off with her head!" We loved this play!
When we returned, our faithful year-long garden tender, Mrs. R, had the ingredients for pizzas laid out. Some of this came from our very own second grade garden!
Enjoy the way we loaded our mini-pizzas up for a fantastic snack.





Even LC had a hand in his pizza!
The finished product.
Perfection!
And enough time was left for a little free reading at the end of the day.

Thank you parents and students for a wonderful day. The good news? We have 6 more to go.