Enjoy the gallery of Pre-K graduation below.

And a little video… the kids were so cute as they performed “The Very Hungry Caterpillar’

Thanks to everyone for all the work that went into the celebration!

It was a real low-work day for the working parents, all the kids were so busy and fascinated by this new activity. The children worked so well in teams and they stayed surprisingly dry too.

If you think about it, there is so much the kids can learn from this fun activity. Teamwork, sharing, taking care of and being responsible for their own needs and their own stuff, cleaning. Just like out motto: Learning Through Playing!

And it wasn’t just that the kiddos loved it – everything was sparkly clean at the end.

What a fun field trip!

When we wanted to leave the train was almost 15 minutes late and we sat and sang for a while. I also filmed some of the singing, I hope I’ll get around to posting it soon, stay tuned…

See the images in the Flash Gallery below. These galleries do not work on most smart phones – for sure not on the iPhone – in case you use one of these please click here to see many of the photos

Most of the photos were taken in the beautiful and spacious playyard, it is the biggest playground I have ever seen at a school. I always admire how happy the children look, this is especially true if they are taking pictures of each other, and no adult prompts them to “smile for the camera”.

That was among the photos, I thought it makes a good alternate title for this post. “What I See”

Playing a ball game

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I’d be so happy if someone who is a better writer would write a few lines here – if you don’t have an account email me the text!

David already posted his video, great footage, thanks David:

Amy’s Video is waiting to be posted, for now you can see it here

Some of my photos (I might get around to reducing that and make a gallery eventually. And then I’ll make a video too…):

The blur in the middle of some of my photos is not a bad camera… it’s sunscreen on my lens.

And another photo gallery with pictures from David, Andy and Sonja. If you have more to add please email me the pictures.

Click SL to start the slideshow and FS for full-screen.

I sent the clipping through a free OCR service and edited it a little where the text was unreadable:

SM Times, Saturday April 1, 1961

Nursery School ‘Graduates’ Hold Reunion at Millbrae

MILLBRAE — Old friendships were renewed at the annual alumnae day luncheon of the Millbrae Nursery school at the Sabella’s restaurant.

Current members and alumnae of the parents’ organization as their guests the three faculty members. Mrs. C. A. Wheeler teacher director: Mrs. D. D. Dowling and Mrs. H. Kauffman, as well as Mrs. Opal Moberg, executive secretary, and Mrs. James Hills. teacher director of then Rollingwood Observation Playgroup.

The school is jointly sponsored by the College of San Mateo, adult education division, and that parent group which directs the school’s operation.

Because families devote time and cooperative effort to the school during their period of membership, alumnae interest in the progress of the nursery school remains high.

Mrs. Sylvan Selig, outgoing president. brought the luncheon guests up to date on the many innovations the parents have made since occupying the school’s permanent quarters at 86 Center Street.

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[if you'd like to type up the rest I'd be happy, it was not automatically readable]

I looked in my car’s trunk, where I kept two kites, (just cause.) And I was determined to show the kiddos that we do not have to be afraid of or mad at the wind. My small kite flipped around and crashed so much that it broke, plus my big butterfly’s long tail got tangled as Teacher Megan and I tried to make it fly. The kiddos were curious to see a kite, and that diverted their attention from being scared, but crashing kites was not what I had in mind! Across the street, I saw a piece of paper fly off the ground and my determination was set. I thought, “something is going to be airborne today!”

Later on in the day, I tied a plastic bag with yarn with the pre-k kiddos and crossed my fingers that it would work, and tah-dah! It flew… Bag Kites were born! The look on the kiddos faces when they were able to fly their own kites was priceless. The sound of their giggles still rings in my ear today. For weeks, the kiddos asked if we could fly our Bag Kites!

Luckily, Amy Maschio-Baksheeff was able to capture some pictures on her phone, click here for more. It was so simple and environmentally friendly! Oh, and free! Try it sometime!

Teacher Liselle

As always on the galleries: The pale green buttons above this line (to the right) start (and stop) a slide show with SL, and FS means full screen.

One question from the webmaster to the readers of the website / blog: These galleries do not work on iPhones and many similar devices. How important is it to you that they show up on the iPhone as well? Please email me or comment on this post.