Hi Ms. Lorrie!!!

RUS's teacher, Ms. Lorrie, is on maternity leave and we all miss her a lot. So we thought we'd record a video to say hi and let her know a little bit about what's been happening at day care.

Transcript: (done)

S: okay, go!

RUS: Hi, Ms Lorrie!

S: Can you tell Ms Lorrie what you’re doing? What are you doing?

RUS: I’m sitting in my seat.

S: Oh, what are you gonna do?

RUS: Uh ah ah I’m eat.

S: You’re gonna eat?

RUS: Yeah.

S: Did you have a good day?

RUS: Turn it O!

S: Did you have a good day at school?

RUS: Turn it OBER! Mommy!

S: I will, but can you tell Miss Lorrie what you did at school today?

RUS: I- I pway wit D!

S: You played with D? What else did you do?

RUS: I pway wit E. an an an and turn ober!

S: Okay.

Writing

R's new thing is writing. She loves writing and lately has been sounding out words and writing out sentences. Here is one of her latest. I want to emphasize that she did this with zero help or input from anyone else: she is sounding out and writing down the letters she wants to write.

Her class has been talking a lot about healthy bodies and related to that theme, doctors and nurses and other health care professionals. Today at school they worked on making eye charts, and this is what she drew on the back of her eye chart.

If you look closely, the sentence she said she wrote was, "There are so many eyes you can't even count them." The sentence starts with TAR and ends on the next line with AOT TM. Click on the picture to make it bigger and easier to see the letters.

New Pictures of Prekay!

In R's pre-kindergarten class at day care they have a little dog named Prekay who comes home with one child every weekend and they write about what they do with them and share the weekend events when they go back to school on Monday. We have to write a page in the Prekay book, but we've also been documenting what we've done with Prekay and I thought it'd be fun to have R write a blog post for us about Prekay. Here she goes!

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Prekay is my school's dog and I got a turn today and I'm going to have fun with him. I'm having fun with him. How are you doing? What do you like about Prekay?

Prekay is soft and tiny bit of hard in it. I like Prekay because he is my best friend. I love you Prekay. Prekay you know what I love you so much.

I take care of Prekay very well.

Prekay likes making Valentines. He thinks it's good exercise. He even likes he thinks making Valentines is really fun.

Good bye I am going to go to bed. The End. That's the end of the story. I love you Prekay. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

 That picture is I am opening the Valentine from Grandma.

I am doing Valentine's. I am coloring with Prekay.

 I am smiling with Prekay with a dress on.

 I have a normal face on with Prekay and RUSy has a normal face.

 I am smiling with Prekay and RUSy is smiling too.

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Daycare Carnival

The other day the kids' daycare had their annual summer carnival. We went and had a GREAT time. They had set up THREE bounce houses (YIPPEE!) and had various carnival-esque games that we didn't take pictures of, and R got her face painted. Here are the pictures I did get.

The kids bouncing in the bouncy castle (R's favorite!)
RUS using the digger in the sandbox. I just adore this picture.
At the bottom of the slide!
Climbing up for another round!
Face painting!