Will you be my Valentine?

We stayed clear of the candy and party this Valentine's Day. Instead we spent the morning exploring the colors of red, pink & white, which resulted in this beautiful mural I hung in my office over the desk!

Pure Love!

Multi-media Mural

We worked on this over several weeks, pulling it off the wall every few days to add a new element.

My beautiful little artists!

For some reason they wanted to share one side of the easel. The other side was open, but I didn't object.

She's mine!

Anna from my class last year shares a babysitter with Matthew who is currently in my class. Anna and her older sisters came into my room last week to pick up Matthew. They came over to chat with me while Matthew and the babysitter got his things ready to go. Pretty soon Matthew came over and started talking to Anna in a very agitated tone (in Chinese), but I knew he said something about "teacher".

The sisters and babysitter responded with a quick, "Ok, ok, let's go," trying to usher Anna and Matthew out of the room. I stopped one of Anna's sisters and asked what he had said.

Her response, "He said, 'She is MY teacher, not YOUR teacher!'"

Winnie the Pooh

Yesterday Trish was wearing sweatpants that said "Winnie the Pooh" across the butt....so wrong in so many ways!

I want to go home!

Let's go back to Day 2. Taji really didn't want to be at school. He was so certain that he wanted to go home that he carried around ALL of his things ALL day. (He left most of his things in his locker the next day, and just carried around his blanket for a few weeks).