There were many themed days. Brock only picks the ones that appeal to him to dress for, here he is on Ken Vs. Barbie day...as Allen. Not picking side obviously.
Alice on Zoo day...starfish!
Kings and Queens day...
Brock's school has a Festival of the Arts event, part of which where they are given a theme and every classroom decorates their room for an immersive experience. Brock worked so hard on his room, cutting out, "5000 leaves". He took his role as manager very seriously and went above and beyond.
Entering, "The Enchanted Forest".
On that theme, his class went with a four elements/ seasons lens. Here is "Winter", these ice sickles are now in Brock's room.
Winter town.
Full room with bestie Theodor and their beloved homeroom and literature teacher, Mr. White.
Fire/ autumn town.
This is Bartholomew. Brock, as manager, was dismayed there his underlings had made a horrible looking tree. I suggested that we role with it and make it an evil tree. 10 minutes later I am overstepping my mommy participation quota building this friend (who also lives in Brock's room now) and Brock and I craft his evil goblin named later by Brock's colleagues, as Bartholomew. An improvement!
Brock made these adorable fire squirrels.
Theodor's best Botticelli impersonation.
Alice then had "Twins day"'. So, I was over-mommying again, and was afraid that Alice would not feel comfortable or not have anyone to be a twin with on this day. So I made Myrna a matching track suit just in case. Thank goodness, Chloe came through and I reached out to her mom. They actually own the same shirt so it was perfect. So, this picture is actually from Track Suit Day!
Next was "Sports Day".
Alice also had a project to pick out a book and read it to her class. For timing and jokes, she picked out "It's Not Easy Being a Bunny". Sing it sister. Here she is at a practice round at home:
And at the main event!
Looks like she had a great time.
Alice's school fundraiser for their sports program, the Color Marathon. They had cool colored powder to through on their shirts made popular from the Indian Color Celebration.
Alice's classmate Marley sharing her pink.
Brock came too!
Yay school. I will miss you over the next few months!
Ah, the pomp and circumstance of a Kindergarten graduation. The wonderful Principle Korth at the podium... The event began with the graduates singing a song to their teacher: And then the main event! Then we adjourned to the playground for cake and popsicles. Alice with one of her closer friend, Chloe. And her AMAZING teacher who we will miss so much, Ms. Heintzelman! It has been a really good year! Alice has bloomed in reading and math and particularly in her interest and understanding of sociology and science. She even made a few friends! I can say I learned more from than even Brock's first year of public school. I began volunteering on Friday mornings in December after her school received 100 new refugee students from Venezuela (her school went from 200 to 300 in a day!). I did not want to volunteer in the classroom, but instead wanted to help out with admin, but that was not where humans were needed, so I ended up in the neighborhood third grade class. This was way outside
Uh. When the going gets rough, the rough roughs it! And off we head to Michigan for our annual camping and disc golfing extravaganza. We are last minute campers and it worked to our advantage this year. As everything else was booked, we ended up at a little "secret" campsite we know of in western MI called Timberview. The nice old man that runs it got sick of loud campers, so he pulled all listings off of the internet. It's not on google maps. We were lucky enough to drive by one year and just stop in. And now that we have a kid, he set us up in the nicest secluded campsite, of which we took two pictures (we're bad at this sometimes.) There was wonderful hiking, an assortment of mushrooms to discover, and a giant hill of majestic old-growth pines that Brock aptly named "pine tree heaven." It's also quite refreshing to be in a site where you are actually allowed to gather your own firewood, and it's low-traffic enough that there is plenty. We s
Brock was given the assignment of memorizing the poem "If", by Sir Rudyard Kipling. It is a wonderful poem, here was his submission to his teacher. They were also called on at random times through out the year to recite various verses impromptu in class. So deep.
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