Ms. Louise

The kids' first toddler teacher, Ms. Louise retired this week. Ms. Louise was their first teacher and the first person, other than our family, that we trusted Olivia and TJ with. She and Ms. Kim made us feel so comfortable from day one. We will forever be grateful to them for being such wonderful passionate, caring teachers for the kids. One thing that I will always remember is that Ms. Louise would send the kids birthday cards in the mail addressed to them. This wouldn't be a big deal except their birthday is right after Christmas when everyone is on a 2 week vacation from school so it was extra special that she remembered their birthdays and went above and beyond to make sure that she celebrated with them even though they were not in school. Even though the kids are no longer in the toddler room, we will miss Ms. Louise dearly. As a token of our appreciation we decided to make Ms. Louise a little something so that she will always remember us. We are usually not the crafting sort of family but we did our best.

Here is Terry helping to iron on the decorations onto the reusable grocery bag.

The kids were super excited to do a craft. I guess this means I should do this sort of thing more often.

Here are the kids decorating the bag...

The finished product.

We love you, Ms. Louise (and Ms. Newton)!!!!

Art Show 2010

A few weeks ago Terry and I attended the BCC Montessori Art Show 2010! It was the culmination of all of the artwork that the kids did over the summer. The theme of this summer was traveling...each week they 'traveled' somewhere different...New York, Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa, etc. They created a piece of artwork for each place they "visited. The school did a wonderful job of putting the art show together and the kids enjoyed showing us their works of art.

For Europe, the teachers put paper underneath the tables and the kids painted on their backs. Here is Olivia showing me her painting.

The kids made the windows to go on the skyscrapers of New York.

I can't remember what these were...or what country they were for. Sorry.

Here are their paper mache maracas that they made when they traveled to Mexico. Of course Olivia's was purple and TJ's was orange and blue. War Eagle!

This is Olivia's fan from Asia.

And their masks from Africa.

The kids were even given little 'suitcases' to put all of their artwork in. Here is our beloved Ms. Newton helping Olivia put her artwork in her suitcase.

and Daddy helping TJ put his artwork in his suitcase!

The kids with Ms. Newton!
Thanks, BCC Montessori for a wonderful summer and a fantastic art show!