Field Trip to Moose Tree

Mark and his class got to go to the Moose Tree Reserve, which is a nature center in the school district. Unfortunately, it had rained quite a bit and then got really cold so the reserve was frozen over and they had a large tree fall over in the wind storm, so all of the kindergartners, who were dressed for the frigid weather, got to stay inside and listen to some student teachers try and keep them entertained while teaching them . . . something.

Here they are, all 25 kids sitting nicely. It's early so they are still behaving.

After a while they got to walk around the place and look at all the stuffed bears, dear, coyotes and so forth. They also got to see this snake named Pocket. Pocket was a big draw for the kids. Very popular (ewwww) There was also this turtle named Mona Lisa. Not nearly as popular as Pocket and I don't know why.

This is Mark and his buddies at a birthday party. They had a whole playscape to play on and chose to rest under this table. Again, I don't know why.

This is just Mark with his shades and I like it :)

Here the kids got to perform experiments about mass. Yeah, they're in kindergarten. I believe I was learning my ABCs and 123s in kindergarten, what about you?

Mother Goose Show Part II

Nursery Rhyme Show 2009

This is the Nursery Rhyme show that the entire kindergarten class put on tonight. It was the most adorable thing. Before it started, Ken and I were hoping that it wouldn't turn into the kids play from the movie Parenthood - you know, when Steve Martin's kids destroy the play and he feels like he's on a roller coaster??? Mark actually had a moment there in the show where he was having trouble with his horse and he could have had a meltdown, but luckily his wonderful teacher saw it and saved him. We love her!

I know the picture quality sucks, but it was a full house for Mark's stage debut. I had a seat closer to the stage, but of course the tallest man on earth just had to sit down right in front of me, so I moved to the back.

This was not Mark's "show piece" (which was Humpty Dumpty and he was one of the Kings men) but I just love the way the kids rap the Baa Baa Black Sheep song :) And then they all scream "BAAAAAAA" Too cute.

Luckily, the school is selling a DVD of the entire show so we can have a really good view of it. Mark was front and center too :)