Last week, I shipped back Kory's Kindergarten supplies and packed up some of his "special" Kindergarten papers. You know the ones showing how he wrote his name for the first time and the first little story he read.
I so enjoyed going through Kindergarten with him this past year. Here are some of my favorite memories of Kory's Kindergarten year.
- When Kory first started to read, he jumped up, ran over to me and gave me a great big hug followed by the words "Mommy I can read!"
- His favorite historical person has to be George Washington. Everyone else in history is compared to him. Was this person alive when George Washington was alive? He looks like George Washington? Did he know George Washington?
- Kory doesn't think the pilgrims came over on the Mayflower. He instead said the "pillows" came over on the Mayflower.
- Christopher Columbus didn't discover the new world. Instead Kory says "Christopher Robin" did.
- I enjoyed watching and listening to Kory during his lessons with his actual teacher and with his classmates. Sometimes they were just over the phone. Other times they were online. And some were even with the use of web cameras. Kory was so cute when he shared his favorite veggie and favorite way to eat it during one of those web-camera online classes. "And this is the way I like to eat cucumbers." And crunch away Kory went. :)
- If you ask Kory his favorite thing he made this year was his "world" out of clay with rivers and ponds, mountains and oceans. He was so proud of that world - which has now been transformed into some sort of other clay design, but I did get a picture of it :)
- My favorite art project of his was the "shield" he created with things that make him feel safe and strong: 1. spiders because they eat bees 2. Jesus because he helps us not be scared at night 3. scissors because if something is ahead of you, you can cut through it.
- I also set aside to frame a flower painting he made. It is such a beautiful Kindergarten piece of work!
- I enjoyed the field trips we went on to the zoo, the local pumpkin patch and the bowling alley. There were the extras we added in during the year to make lessons come alive too. There is the little boy we support in Africa that Kory helped pick out after learning about Africa. There was the South American dessert we made with a friend from Brazil after learning about that country.
- I understand his dislike for princess and fairy stories after so many of his language arts stories were filled of princess this and fairy that. His favorite story from the year was Jack and the Beanstalk. If you ask him why, he will tell you it is because he liked the giant's snoring. :)
I know if I took even further time I could think of many more memories from Kindergarten, but those are the ones that really stick out in my mind.
And now in my office sits seven boxes of his 1st grade supplies. I can't wait to get into them and start our new school year at the end of August.
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