Now I'm going to tell you how I failed my first kindergarten homework assignment. Seriously. In Adeline's class, they have "Leader Day." When it is your turn to be the leader, you get special privileges (like being first in line). They go alphabetically through the list of kids and then start again, all through the year. So, when your name is "Adeline," you apparently get to go first.
For their first leader day, the teacher sent home a scrapbook of sorts. There is a page to put pictures of your family, artwork, etc. On the facing page, you answer a few questions about the people in your family, what you like to do, and what makes you excited about kindergarten. Her teacher and student teacher did the first two spreads about themselves as an example. Of course, being the scrapbook enthusiast that I am, and considering I had a bunch of extra pictures lying around from our recent family photo shoot, I dove right into this project. I wanted Adeline to be involved, so I had her write her own name on the name line and the names of all her family members....in pink of course, since that's her favorite color. I asked her the other two questions and dutifully wrote down everything she said including "hanging my backpack on the hook," and didn't add anything of my own like "learning to read" (which apparently is completely overrated). We did a few other decorations, and then I labeled our family pictures.....with a black sharpie. Do you see where this is going? It bled through to the student teacher's page. Epic fail. Of COURSE we had to do the first entry so the book will go home with everyotherkidinherclass. Sweet. At least it was the teacher and not some poor 5 yr old. So that's why they sent home crayons and a pencil....
Sorry, Mrs Crush, we'll do better next time...
