Katie's 'pecial Helper Day

Yes, it is really Special Helper Day, but not when Katie says it.  Katie is mostly missing the S sound at the start of her words.  It is only in the last month that she is getting the S sound but it hasn't made yet made it to the word special.  I have to admit it sounds kind of cute the way she says it.  I'm going to be a little bit sad when she finds that darn S full time but it will be a lot easier for others to understand her.

Katie was beyond excited to be the Special Helper.  Heck, she was excited when her brother and sister were the helpers.  On Katie's morning I went in to wake up the kids and said "good morning Special Helper Katie."  She immediately jumped out of bed with happy energy and started bouncing around the room.  Her brother and sister did not share her enthusiasm about getting out of their nice, warm beds but we made it to school anyway.  Katie really wanted to get to school and do her job!

Katie was the helper on a Wednesday.  They call it Wacky Wednesday at school.  We found the Dr. Seuss book "Wacky Wednesday" at the library for her show and tell item.  It was a big hit with all the kids.  On Wacky Wednesday they do things backwards.  They start with Z, Y, X when doing the alphabet and count down from 30 while doing numbers.  When she wrote her nametag she ran out of room and had to put some letters on the bottom so even her nametag was wacky.

She enjoyed passing out the namecards and snacks.  Katie's snack was graham cracker Scooby Snacks and juice. Scooby Snacks always go over well with the class.  She also liked being first in line to go to the art room. 

Abby, on the other hand, was jealous.  When I was taking pictures of Katie doing her Special Helper duties I could see Abby in the back of the room looking annoyed.  I wasn't sure if she had some kind of problem so I asked her before leaving.  She said everything was too "Katieish."   Silly, jealous girl!  I had to remind her that the previous days had been "Abbyish" and "Benish" and it was just Katie's turn.  I had to take Abby's picture just to make her happy.

Katie was very happy.  In fact, I think Katie would be very happy to be the Special Helper every day!



Katie and Mrs. Millerschoen




Writing her nametag





Just follow the letters in a circle.  Wacky!



Ringing the bell

 


Getting her attendance sticker





Stretch!




Jealous Abby



Line leader!

 

Thumb's Up

This one's for you, Daddy!

Ben's Special Helper Day

Monday it was Ben's turn to be the special helper at preschool.  Mark is back in Charlotte working so unlike last week it was just me to take video and pictures.  I was trying to hold the camcorder in one hand and the DSLR camera in the other.  As anticipated, the results aren't quite as good.  Some of the still photos are blurry.  I'm sure in years to come when we want to look at the video, Ben is going to wonder if Mommy was drinking when she took the video.  Oh well, I did my best.

Ben loved being the special helper.  It is fire safety week at school so we checked out a book about firefighters from the library for his show-and-tell item.  He also got to wear a firefighter's hat during play time.  Ben isn't always willing to take the time to write his name (although he knows how) so I was very happy he wrote his own name on his name tag.  It was also cooking day.  They made sugar doughnuts for letter D week.  He was extra happy to be the first one in line and the first one to get to eat!



Got to love the hats during Fire Safety Week.



The hat might be just SLIGHTLY too big for that baby.




Silly girl!



Ben writing his name tag.  Car in one hand, pen in the other.

Getting his attendance sticker



Passing out name cards



Hi.  I am 4 years old. If you want to take my picture, at least one of the shots is going to look like this!

Abby's Special Helper Day

The kids' preschool  has a special helper every day.  They go in alphabetical order plus you get to be the helper around or on your birthday.  Last year my kids were gypped.  Our last name is at the end of the alphabet and they have a summer birthday.  They were all the special helper once before Christmas.  By the time their 2nd individual turn should have come around it was towards the end of school and the teachers were trying to get all the summer birthdays in.  My kids had to be the shared helpers for their early birthday day.  While everyone else in the class got to be the special helper 3 times, mine only got 2 and 1 of those times they had to share.  Sometimes it really doesn't pay to be a triplet.

They LOVE being the special helper and ask almost daily if it is their turn yet.  This year I know we will not be here the whole year.  By the time their normal turn comes around we might not even be here.  That is why I asked if they could be moved up.  It is bad enough we are going to leave in the middle of school.  I was determined the kids would not get gypped out of being the special helper this year.

Friday was Abby's turn.  The special helper gets to ring the cleanup bell and pass out the name tags.  They hold the flag for the Pledge of Allegiance and point to the letters, numbers, colors and days of the week.  They put the date on the calendar and tell everyone what the weather is like that day.  They get to be first in line all day.  The special helper brings the snack and gets to pass it out at snack time.  Who wouldn't want to be the special helper!

An extra added bonus was that Mark was home for a long weekend so we both got to watch Abby be the special helper.

"Carrying my baby all over town"

Getting her name tag

Ringing the clean up bell



The 1st one to put her sticker on 

Passing out name tags



She is SO short!













Ben bumped his chin on the table

They usually sit at different tables, but Abby put their name tags all in a row.