Monkey Movies

Brett's last day of school with the Monkey Class was on Thursday. This class always does the coolest things, so I knew they would have something ridiculously creative, fun, and meaningful for the kids to do on their last day. They invited the parents to come in around 12:30, but Kate and I got there early, so I peaked my head in, and this is what I saw... the classroom had been transformed into a drive-in movie theater, complete with "Cars" movie! I knew that Brett was truly in heaven!

The kids (and a few siblings) eating lunch in the cars that they painted on Tuesday and decorated on Thursday... apparently they had circle time and snack time in their cars too!

The room moms put together scrapbooks for the teachers - each book had a picture of each child and a quote saying, "I love Ms. Kathy or Ms. Kathryn because..." I actually borrowed the idea for Kate's teachers this year too! The kids in Brett's class were SOOOO unbelievably excited to see the books. I never expected such a strong response from 3 and 4 year olds - literally every kid in the class was gathered around the teachers - truly a testament of how much Kathy and Kathryn mean to our kids!

Ms. Kathryn with one swarm of little ones

Ms. Kathy with another swarm of curious eyes!

Brett with K&K

Brett couldn't wait to get his car home and have snack in it at home too!

They even attached this mint case and gave each kid a little matchbox-type car inside!

The nametags on their keys were leftover name tags from their old classroom (they switched classrooms mid-year when the new building opened). They made the key chains, complete with a real key attached!

Getting ready to rev the engine!

Beep! Beep!

The kids even had to pass a test to get their driver's license... they had to name about 8 different road signs (stop sign, green light, cattle crossing, etc.). Ironically, I went to renew my own license that morning - reading the signs and everything!

They also gave each child a big "I spy" type book, a 10-ish minute photo collage, set to music, of a ton of the pictures they had taken all year. They played the DVD for the parents... it was adorable to see how excited the kids got when they saw pictures of themselves in Halloween costumes, performing at Christmas-time, playing on the playground with their friends, with Mom or Dad during Moms and Muffins or Dads and Donuts, etc. It truly is amazing how much they do with these kids!! Lastly, they gave each kid a CD with about 20 of their favorite preschool songs. We already had one of Ms. Kathryn's CDs from something that Brett's other class did this year, but this one is different. I haven't even told the kids that we have ANOTHER "Ms. Kathryn" CD... I'm waiting until the one that's already in my car loses it's "coolness factor." Trust me, it's nowhere near that yet!! In fact, most days they just want to listen to the first song over and over and over and over and over again!

As a side note, if you live in the area and need to get your license renewed, I highly recommend the Avent Ferry DMV... it's 10 minutes longer in the car, but it has served me very well twice now - this time in 11 minutes!!