Grandparents at School

I went back to school for half a day. Three anxious little souls were waiting in their respective classes, for the right Grammy to walk through that door.

Natalie's kindergarten class was all decked out like a jungle. She showed me her journal and her beautiful scrapbook with all of her artwork. We had stations in the room to visit, one at which she showed me how well she could do sign language. It was a special visit I will never forget.

Paeton, almost shy-like yet, proudly showed me to his desk, where he read to me a recent report he had researched and written. It was several pages long.

I loved it! Especially since I could visualize the orangutans that we visited with him in Indonesia.
We also worked on a little exercise on how school was the same/different when I went to school. I told him we did not do art in elementary school. He showed me his artwork around the room and as we looked out of the window, he told me where he plays hockey at recess.

Tehya welcomed me with uninhibited joy to her classroom. There I had to sit down on a chair, like an old lady, for a photo op. She promptly jumped on my lap and gave me the biggest, almost smothering hug as the photographer clicked. She also had an exercise ready, one in which I had to practice my nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. She's smiling at the funny story being concocted.

She took me to the gym to show me more artwork, and asked me to find her name.

When I could not see it, she took down her page and folded it up to show me.

The morning culminated with snacks in the gym and a program by all of the classes except for the Kindergarten class. It was so nice to get a feel of the school and the commitment to excellence tampered with good humor. A song that one of the classes sang was called Elephants Have Wrinkles. One of the students thought it would be a good one to sing for the grandparents. I wonder why?