August 16, 2005
End of year party
August 15th was Tyler's last day of preschool. He has a two week break and then he starts again. He will still be in the 3 and 4 year old class, but the older half of the class is moving up to kindergarten. Tyler will miss some of his good friends.
A week before the end of the year, Tyler's preschool had a party. It was on a Friday, our day off. We went to a local kibbutz with nice swimming pools. There was a big lap pool and a couple of shallow kiddie pools. All of the parents had food and drink assignments. We got off easy; we only had to bring a few bags of Bamba and some lemonade.
Here are Brooke and Tiffany swimming in the big pool.
Bathing BeautiesTyler has recently gotten brave enough to swim by himself. He loves paddling around with his water wings. He drove us crazy because he wanted to swim near Shai, a girl that he likes.
Swimming aloneAfter we ate lunch, and while the kids ate popsicles, there was a short program where the teachers gave each child a book and a folder with three pictures.
Class partyThis was the front of the picture folder.
PortraitThis was the second picture in the folder, a self portrait.
Self portraitHere is the third picture, a picture of Tyler's class.
Class photoThe book that Tyler received was a book about him. Each page had blanks that Tyler helped the teacher fill in. It is about looking for a lost dog. In Tyler's story, his dog is named Snoopy and was given to him by his Grandma and Grandpa for his fourth birthday.
His teachers wrote a poem to him in the front cover (well back cover for us English speakers that read left to right). Here it is (mistakes not corrected, although his teacher apologized for them):
Tyler is a smurt and a prilly child!
Sometimes "pussycat" - sometimes : wild!
His Hebrew is now much batter,
He mixes "he" and "she" - but it doesn't matter....
Tyler-isms:
"one-teen, two-teen" - Easier than eleven and twelve.
"Meatland" - Disneyland. Tyler has a Disneyland plastic cup that he likes to drink milk out of. He gets Disneyland mixed up with a local store called Meatland.
"The boys play with cars and the girls play with everything else." - A typical day at school.
Brooke-isms:
"More" - How come it is always more treats and never more vegetables?
"Mine" - She is very possessive with her toys.
"Boat" - We think she learned this from watching out our windows.
"Plane" - She likes planes like her brother.
"Yellow" - Learned from her friend William.