When I came to pick Max up on the last day of November his teacher was madly sewing. I didn't know what she was up to, but when we went back to school on the first day of December there they were: an advents calendar for each child, with their name on it. There was a small toy or trinket sewn to it for each day. How cool!
Here's a picture. I took this picture pretty late in December, so there's not much left on the calendar, but you get the idea I hope.
The names are kind of covered, but Max's is the one with the pink kooshy ball near the bottom. He dreamed about that ball all month.
I thought this was such a cute idea, and so much individual work for his teacher. I also found out later that the kids got to pick out all their goodies. The teachers passed trays of toys around and the kids got to pick out what they liked. What could be better? One of the days Max came home with a rubber cockroach. This cockroach was very realistic, and startled me several times. The worst was when I was doing the wash--switching clothes from the washer to the drier. I got to the bottom of the washer, and there waiting for me was the cockroach. I hadn't seen it for a while (I'm sure that was because it was hiding out in some pocket somewhere) so I had kind of forgotten about it and it really scared me! Max thought that was pretty funny.
At school they learned a whole bunch of Christmas songs which Max really enjoyed. He knows songs now that I don't even know, like "Up on the Housetop". Here's a little singing video we did that you're welcome to check out if you want. Max is definitely an enthusiastic caroler.
One day last week he came home with the lovely snowflake ornament that I highlighted in my post about the tree. I love it of course, and Max was very proud, and very excited to hang it on the tree.
Sometime last week they had a big Christmas party too. Santa Claus came and brought everybody a present to take home, and they danced and ate a yummy Christmas meal and treats. It looked like lots of fun to me. They gave me a couple of pictures of it, but Max was so enamored of the pictures that he walked off with them and I haven't seen them since. I'm sure we'll find them when we move in a few months....
Here's a picture of him all dressed up and ready to go to the party. So stinking cute!
Hmmm, I'm trying to think what else they did...they cut out lovely paper snowflakes and hung them from the ceiling, they made cute snowman frames for small prints of their school pictures and they got a very exciting fiber-optic tree with moving glowing lights that made the kids very excited.
I'm always impressed at the work Max's teacher puts into her school, and this Christmas stuff was no exception. He had a lot of fun.
