Hoarding

It's all mine.

Community

At the start of the school year, Juniper's class did a unit on community. One of their activities was making posters showing how they will help their community. Juniper drew a picture of herself helping to clean up the messy bathroom in her kindergarten classroom. (For some reason, our normally slovenly child is extremely perturbed by her peers' inability to get the paper towels and toilet paper consistently into their proper receptacles.)



As the culmination of the community unit, the children presented their posters to their class, and parents were invited to attend. As an added bonus for Juniper, her beloved Aunt Becca happened to be in town for her class presentation.

After their classroom presentations, the three kindergarten classes had a school-wide parade. We're so glad that Juniper gets to be part of the community at the International Community School!

To the top!

Carousel

In Hazel's perfect world, every day has a merry-go-round.

Bounce, Slide, and Ride

Summer reflections

Not at all seasonal, but here are some photos of Juniper enjoying summertime activities with her friends.

"I lost my tooth, and I lost my tooth!"

A new milestone on the path from little kid to big kid: last Friday, Juniper lost her first tooth! As she described it, she was eating lunch at school when she noticed blood on her cornbread. She excitedly confirmed that she had a gap in her mouth, but the tooth was nowhere to be found. Her teacher reported Juniper's joke back to us: "I lost my tooth, and I lost my tooth!"

The tooth had been wiggly since just before Thanksgiving, and Juniper was excited about the prospect of losing her first tooth and receiving her first visit from the tooth fairy. She was concerned about what would happen, given that she had no tooth to leave under her pillow. Her teacher helpfully wrote a note to the tooth fairy, attesting to the fact that Juniper really did lose (and lose) her tooth.

Those of you who know Juniper will not be surprised to hear that her scientific mind went to work analyzing the idea of the tooth fairy. She thought and thought and thought and drew some mature conclusions, including the realization that no matter what, she is looking forward to receiving a gold dollar coin in a fancy envelope the next time she loses a tooth and that she is glad someone put it there.