Grandma goes to school!

I had such a fun experience last week.  Alaina's teacher does something called 'Mystery Reader'.  Parents or grandparents can sign up for this, and I had signed up for last week.  The mystery reader chooses a book their special child likes and comes to school to read it to the kindergarten class.  The kids don't know who it is until the door opens!

When you get to school, the secretary calls down to the class to tell them that the mystery reader is there.  The kids then sing a song that talks about who the reader might be, and then the reader knocks on the door.
When the door opens, all the kids are looking to see who it is, and when Alaina saw it was me she ran up and gave me a hug.

 She got to tell her class that the reader was her Grandma, and then we all went to the reading area.

The readers special kid gets to sit up front with them while the story is being read.  I read a story about Audrey, a bunny who had a spot on her and was worried that her little girl wouldn't like her if she saw it.  But the little girl loved her, spot and all.  The kids sat and listened quietly and seemed to enjoy it.

Here is the whole class.

 Alaina and I after the reading.

Alaina's bright and cheerful class!

The kids each made a thank you card for me.

 This is Alaina's sweet teacher.


Because this was done at the end of the day, I got to take her home afterward.

She had to show me her classes owl pictures.  The one she drew is on orange paper above her head.

Here she is outside her school.

She was excited to show me these painted rocks that were done by the teachers.  They have them arranged in a little stream throughout the landscaping.

Instead of going right home, we thought we should go have a treat first.  She chose a donut place.  She asked if we could get one for Ruby and take it home to her, which I thought was very sweet.

Here's Alaina and Ruby waving goodbye to me after I brought Alaina home.

I had a great time and thought this was a great idea.  It's exciting for the kids, and I think the mystery readers like it just as much!


Before I go, I have to share a Ruby story.  I know some of you really enjoy her antics!
When I dropped Alaina off, Laura told Ruby to tell me what happened that day.  When there was no answer, she said "tell Grandma how you fell".  I asked her if she was getting into trouble when she fell, and she said no, but I could tell by the look in her eyes that she had been.
Apparently she had been playing downstairs.  Laura went down to check something and arrived just in time to see Ruby in the bathroom down there.  She had her step stool on the toilet seat and was standing on it, trying to throw a ball and hit the ceiling!  Guess what?  It didn't work, and just asLaura walked in, the stool and Ruby fell down and much wailing ensued.  Thankfully she wasn't really hurt, just bumped up.  Who but Ruby would think of such a thing?  Hopefully she learned, but there are always new things that can be climbed on!