Samara's Class Christmas Party

Samara had a Christmas party at school so I took Natalie so I could help out.  A class full of Kindergarteners is a LOT of fun.  They decorated two sugar cookies, made a snowman from a sock, and colored a picture and made a "trail mix" of sorts (that's the station I was at).  Natalie got to help Mara out with all of these things.  She looked like one of the crowd... only a little smaller.

Decorating the cookies together.  Samara did a great job in letting Natalie help her out with all of her fun things.

My Mara

My Nattie

Making the sock snowman.



They did a musical chairs book exchange and this is the one Samara got.



All in all it was a great day.  It wasn't as messy as it could've been for a classroom full of kindergarteners.  I'm so glad that I got to go and help out.  Mara was so excited that her mommy got to be there.  Nattie had a great time too!

Mara's Christmas Tree

Samara had a project she had to do for school.  (She's in Kinder at the public school.  For those who are wondering why I have a homeschool blog, I am planning on homeschooling next school year.)  She came home with a tree shape and was supposed to decorate it with whatever she wanted.

The tree template that we got from school.

Samara had so much fun decorating her tree.  It was so cool to see her face light up as she put each "ornament" on the tree.

I printed the tree out on cardstock to make it thicker.  Then we put glue all over it and sprinkled green sugar sprinkles all over it, we didn't have any green glitter.  Then she put red hots on it.  Then she put on some paper circle ornaments (not pictured here) and a yellow star on top (also not pictured here).

I'm a little bummed that I didn't get a picture of the final project.  I don't know what I was thinking.  If it hasn't fallen apart when she gets it home from school I will take a picture and post it.  Don't get your hopes up though.