Best munckin drawing of all time...

I CAN'T. This munchkin already reminds me SO much of myself at her age, it's crazy. She drew me this picture, and it will FOREVER be my favorite. It's me and her fighting a zombie, I'm on the right and she is on the left (obviously the zombie is in the middle). I apparently needed "blue on my black hair like Katy Perry", two knives to kill the zombie, a zebra dress, and "firework pants". Also, I have a pet zebra and she has a pet horse.

So much WIN in this picture.

Graduation

Since I had the younger group this past year, and I went all out crazy for our first graduation last year, my co teacher and I decided to settle with a family picnic for her "graduating" kids this year. I put together little bags for each of the children in her group including a bobble head from Oriental Trading (I wrote their names on the front and 2012 on the back), Congratulation Frames, also from OT (and had the children wearing the caps we used at last years graduation), a CD filled with pictures from throughout their 2 years in our room, and a "diploma" (I'm pretty sure I found those in the dollar section at Target and tied some red ribbon around it).

But seriously, I'm already mentally planning the Rockstar Graduation for my munchkins next year :p

Preschool Apocalypse

This really has nothing to do with teaching, but I couldn't help feel so proud with the little munchkins when they started drawing Zombies with the chalk outside on the playground. It is days like this that I KNOW I chose the right path in life, I seriously LOVE them!

Puppy Love

As I'm planning to move soon I've started going all my old stuff to try and downsize, I found this giant "I Love You Puppy" that my friends gave me after I moved to the west coast a few years ago. It's adorable, but being 25 it's not exactly what I'd display in my apartment. A few of my munchkins have just recently had new siblings and have been emotional disasters to say the least, and having 2 teachers in a class of 24 makes it impossible to give them the one-on-one attention they need.

It's only been a few days since I brought the puppy in for the kids, and it has already been such a huge help! They give him hugs when they need extra love, play with him if I'm busy talking to a parent, and he even took a nap with an extra sensitive munchkin with a newborn at home. Today as we were leaving the classroom for the night, the last four munchkins said he needed to snuggle in the rocking chair and got a blanket to tuck him in for night with.


Guess it's true when they say one person's trash is another person's treasure....and also a good thing that my apartment is filled with things 3-5 year olds would love!