School fun Easter Celebrations

Happy Easter.

We just finally returned home from our day of celebrating at Savannah's schools. Yes I said schools plural. This morning we ran out the door and headed to Savannah's school. Zoe joined in the celebration and I stayed to help the teachers with some of the activities... It is quite a production going on there, though I do think the kids were extra hyper for Easter!

We did foam sticker eggs, decorated cookies, played with puzzles, played in the pretend kitchen, block time, reading time, and wipe erase markers. Whew, I am tired just typing the stations. Then the kids went outside and everyone went on an Easter egg hunt. One of the teachers and I hide around three hundred eggs on the playground. That is a LOT of eggs. With twenty kids though it works out pretty well. I think each kid took home around 15 eggs.

As soon as we were finished there we dropped off all the goodies at Daddy's work (cause it happened to be on the way) and headed over the the beeping egg hunt at the Fl School for the Deaf and the Blind. I think we missed it last year, but we had been when she was three. The school literally has a bunch of Easter eggs that one of the teachers many years ago had rigged so that when you press the button on the egg it starts to chirp.... then the blind children can follow the noise of the chirp and be able to participate in the hunt too. Zoe lost interest in the chirping eggs, which was fine since it really wasn't for her anyway. Savannah had a blast though and she found six eggs the second time they hid the eggs. At the end, all the kids trade in their beeping eggs for a treat basket. This year Savannah had a chocolate bunny, coloring book, lots of really neat shaped eggs (turtle, chick, etc.) a recorder, and a blue stuffed bunny rabbit in an decorative Easter basket. Savannah was absolutely thrilled and is still bouncing up and down playing with it. Then again maybe it is the sugar from the cupcakes and juice boxes they also got between the rounds of the egg hunt.

While we were there we met the new kindergarten teacher. She is in her third year of teaching and has taught multiple handicap and blind children each of those years. The classroom was bright and cheery, full of hands on manipulatives, books, Closed Caption TV's (TV's set up to magnifiers so that the print of any book can be enlarged), braillers, etc. They were also in the middle of incubating live eggs so that they could hatch out real chicks and watch them grow. The class that this teacher runs is just magnificent. I am glad we are putting through the paperwork for testing and entrance to the school.

After all this though, Zoe fell asleep on the way home of course. She was just beyond exhausted. She has been asleep for an hour and a half now which is unusually cause she doesn't nap anymore other than the occasional car ride. Oh well. At least she will not be as grumpy for bedtime.