Halloween Party Day

Today was Party Day at preschool... Hannah didn't have any of her entourage there since Brad and Kara are sick and Papa, Buggy and Dave were all working. So it was just me and Victoria there to watch. Of course since nobody was there this was the day that Hannah actually put up her hand and answered the questions and sang really loud. Oh well, next month!

This month for phonics they learned to write the letters c, d and e along with the sounds each of those letters makes. For science they learned about the rainforest and animals that live in the rainforest... Hannah can tell you all about the 4 layers of the rainforest... Forest Floor, Understory, Canopy and Emergent (I didn't even know that!) This month the artist that they studied was Emily Carr and Hannah has learned lots of interesting tidbits about her... for example she used to mix her paint with gasoline to stretch it out to last longer and that she liked to have First Nations people visit with her.

Hannah and Victoria have participated in "Operation Christmas Child" this year through our church and Samaritan's Purse. Each of them filled a shoebox with school supplies, toiletries and toys to be delivered at Christmas time to a girl the same age as them in an underdeveloped country. I gave each of them $20 and took them to the dollar store to choose items for the shoeboxes. It may seem like nothing to me and you but to a child living in a third world country who has nothing a box filled with these things is very exciting to them.

I took them to each section of the store (for example the stationary section) then asked each of them to pick out 3 or 4 things to put into their shoeboxes. They needed some direction or else the boxes could have been filled with 10 packs of crayons and no toothbrushes!

But I was really impressed with how much thought Hannah put into what she chose to fill her box... (Victoria pretty much just copied what Hannah chose). But you could really tell that Hannah had her heart in the right place... she kept saying things like "I think that my little girl would like to have a puzzle to play with because she probably doesn't have any puzzles."

Even more impressive was that neither one of them asked for anything at the store for themselves (this is VERY impressive!) They didn't ask for a toy or a colouring book not even for candy at the checkout. Both of them were very focused on filling their boxes with things to give another little girl in another part of the world. See they aren't always little monsters! It was very heartwarming :-)

Anyone who is interested in being part of "Operation Christmas Child" by filling a shoebox with simple gifts can let me know. I can get you a shoebox and you can return it to me before November 16th which is the cut off date for delivery by Christmas :-)