Party Planners

Good News from the President

On Thursday, October 19, the Party Planners met with Ms. Leigh while they enjoyed their morning snack. At this meeting Ms. Leigh shared the letter President Rice wrote back to them.

RB: “Did someone write us a letter?”
BW: “Mr. Rice, because we wrote him a letter.”

The letter from President Rice says that he would love us to use his oven and would also like to help us make our cake.

The Party Planners became so excited at the news from President Rice that they began to make further plans for the party.

TR: “We need candles for the cake.”
EC: “Ms. Leigh is supposed to blow out the candles.”
RB: “We’re going to invite everyone here and the three-year-old class.”
TR: “And Kindergarten.”
RB: “Maybe we can use the same oven used for the pizza.” (On October 17, the class used Ms. Kelley’s small oven to make pizza in the classroom.)
EC: “No, we’re making a bigger one.” (Reaches her hands toward the ceiling.)
KO: “We need to invite Mrs. Hussey and Ms. Brooks.”
TR: “Why don’t we invite Mr. Rice.”
Ms. Leigh: “Where are we going to have this party?”
KO: “In the classroom, silly.”

More Plans for the Party

On Thursday, October 26, the Party Planners met to further discuss their plans for Ms. Leigh’s party.

EC: “Is it going to be a unicorn party?”
BW: “Is it going to have unicorn on us?”
KO: “My mom can buy ponies to hang up.”
EC: “When we go shopping, we’re going to buy a unicorn pinata for you (Ms. Leigh).”
Ms. Leigh: “What can we put inside the pinata?”
KO: “Candies.”
Ms. Leigh: “What about the school’s no-candy rule?”
EC: “Cookies”
Ms. Leigh: “How are we going to put the cookies in the pinata?”
RB: “Wrap the cookies up, then put it in the pinata. I have an idea; we can all line up and you take turns for hitting the pinata.”

The group all stood up and pretended to hit the pinata. As they swung their pretend stick, they said “One for Ms. Leigh, BONK.” They continued to do this until they had said the name of everyone in the classroom.

Once the group sat down, they continued their discussion.

Ms. Leigh: “I wonder where we can get some cookies.”
RB: “By my house. They might have ‘cause last time they had.”
KO: “No, they don’t have.”
BW: “I know; Costco.”
KO: “Scosko”
RB: “Not Scosko. Costco right?”
EC: “Yah, Costco right?”
RB: “How about the firefighters?” (The classroom recently visited the Manoa Fire Station and gave the firefighters a container of cookies from TK’s family.)
RB: “We could run into their firehouse and splash them with water in their face and sneak into their room and take the cookies and run into the bus. But don’t let them see us, or they’ll come to our bus to take back the cookies cause they love cookies.”
BW: “They’re going to say come back, come back, and we’re going to say we have nothing in our hand.”
KO: “We have to go to Costco. We can take the bus, the school bus.”
EC: “You can go to my house first with the bus and you go in my mommy’s car to RB’s house. Then RB is going to make a map at her house.”
BW: “Only if you say please.”
RB: “What if she (EC’s mom) says no, you have to use your dad’s car.”
EC: “Or you can use my grandpa Chai’s bus.”
RB: “Does he have a bus or are you tricking us?”
KO: “I got a bus, but it’s not a school bus.”
EC: “Mine is not a school bus either. It’s a regular bus.”
RB: “We can stop at my daddy’s Bubba Gump and we can wait for a bus, and it will take us to my house. It’s the number one bus, if you see the white fence.”

By allowing the children time to think, problem solve, and work together, we are acknowledging the image of the child, which is full of potential and possibilities.

Posted on November 6, 2006 1:19 PM | Permalink