On A Wonderful Day Like Today

Zara's first day of school - Grade 1 (June 13, 2012)

For her school's Community of Helpers Day, we dressed up Zoe into a person with a profession that's close to my family's heart. Taking after her Lolo, Lola and my sister, we decided that the most apt job for Zoe was to be a teacher like them! Clad in a brown dress bought from the mall, with matching eyeglasses and white board, Zoe was all set to be a teacher for a day. Serious Teacher Zoe... Wacky Teacher Zoe!!! When she got to the school, everyone was dressed up in their favorite community helper outfit. Many were bakers and doctors. One was a soldier and a couple were nurses. But Zoe was a teacher and was mightly proud about it! I heard from the yaya that the kids had so much fun acting out the part. One baker even brought cupcakes to feed everybody in class! :-) Anyway, when Teacher Zoe got home, they realized that there was one more person who also wants to become a teacher... See Teacher Luigi! :-) Pwede! :-)

Zoe's final project for Kindermusik before they end the semester is to bring a home-made animal mask. Tough. Tough. Tough. So I asked the little girl what animal she wanted to be and, without batting an eyelash, she said she wanted to be a LION! :-) I immediately (read: hurriedly) worked on our lion project the morning before the class. This is how it turned out. During show and tell time, Zoe got so so excited to come out of hiding and act the part. She said "Grrr!!! Rrrroar! I'm a lion!" ...I'm a proud mama. :-) See the reflection of her lion face in the mirror behind her. Happy. Happy. Happy.

After our boat project in school, the next show-and-tell activity that Zoe had in Kindermusik was to make a pair of home-made binoculars. Well, I thought that since they are in the topic of music, movement and stars, it's apt for her binocular's theme to be STARS. So this is how our binoculars turned out: I used two tissue paper rolls, black gift wrap, glitter glue (from NBS), a red and gold ribbon and then some puffed star stickers which I got from Greenhills. She loved it and I'm so glad.

Zoe had an "assignment" for her Kindermusik class the other week and this was what we came up with~ In fairness, me thinks Zoe's boat is lovely. :-) Zoe just needs to learn how to restrain herself during class so that the teacher wouldn't have to keep on telling her to sit down and wait for her turn. And since she couldn't wait, she ended up in tantrums and we had to miss much of the class because we had to step out as courtesy to the rest of the students. Really, it's sayang since I think my little girl deserves some consolation for bringing a pretty red boat. Anyway, next week, we're bringing home-made binoculars. *-* Ayayay! Wish us luck.

I almost forgot to blog about Zoe's classes at Kindermusik (Our Time - Wiggles and Giggles) at Teacher Jeannie and Company. On the first day of classes, I unfortunately left the camera in the car so didn't have pictures to show (tsk, tsk). And so, for the second class held last Saturday, I made sure that I was armed with a cam to capture her moments in schoool. Obviously, Zoe is having a blast in school. Here she is holding her Zig-Zag, practicing her "Wishy, washy, wishy, washy, wee!!!!" Zoe carrying her Wiggles and Giggles bag: We were one of the early birds to arrive in school so Zoe had time to play around the area: Here she is smiling at the camera for Mommy: Zoe getting her star stamps from T. Jeannie: Looking forward to the classes until October!

Last May 2 was Zoe's very first day in summer school in Kindermusik c/o Teacher Jeannie and Company. We woke up early since the classes start at 9:30. However, we still got caught in traffic so we arrived in the school about 10 minutes late. Haha. Late or not, it was obvious that Zoe enjoyed every single minute of it. Here's her picture as we left the house. This is her during their snacktime. She was saying - "Daddy, sarap!" I also caught a picture of her right in the middle of the big balloon... Awww...my baby's now a big girl... Looking forward to school next time! Too bad, she'll miss agad her class next week because of the wedding we're attending where she'll be a flower girl. Sayang! Anyway...I hope she can just attend a make-up class.

Having briefed Zoe the day before that she was going to school the next morning, she woke up early shouting "School! School!". As usual on a Saturday morning, I dressed her up immediately so we can go to mass first, that is, before heading for "school". It's great that for a toddler like her, you can already explain the things to her so that she knows what's happening and she knows what to expect. So after mass, we had a quick breakfast and then dressed up again to go to school. Here's a picture of her before we left the house: Excited student with proud mommy: Of course, she also got to have a picture with Dad: A new bag for her to make her all the more excited! We arrived at the Regalia Tower right on time. The trial class really went well and I'm so happy that Zoe enjoyed every minute of it. She was bidding everyone goodbye after the class~ "Bye-bye teacher! Bye-bye school!" She couldn't stop staring at her star stamps as we rode the...