KY KIDS DAY 2010

I celebrated KY Kids Day 2010 this year with 23 of Kentucky's finest and brightest kids! We had a wonderful day despite the fact that it was different than the traditional inflatables on the front lawn. To kick off the World Equestrian Games and to make it fun and educational we decided as a school wide theme to make all the activities horse related. We had a character education speaker with a horse named Lash come to visit us and discuss being a good friend. The real Gypsy horse will be at the Equestrian Games. We also had someone from the Scott County Public Library do a horse art project with us. At the end of the day the KY Derby Museum Outreach Program spent some time with our first grade classes. In between all of this we had Popsicles, managed to squeeze in lunch, recess, and work on our classroom horse for Horse Mania. Oh and don't forget treasure box at the end of the day :) All in all it was a great day!!! Thank you so much to all of the hardworking parents who volunteered their time to come and help throughout the day, especially with our classroom horse.

Happy Grandparent's Day!

I absolutely love grandparent's day, but I realize that at the same time it can be a bittersweet day for some. There are some children who are very fortunate to have a grandparent that lives nearby or a parent that can take off work and come to visit. There are some however, that cannot. I want to thank everyone who came today as a parent, grandparent, relative, or just a visitor for including my other children into your "nest" at lunch. All of my children felt included and special (which they very much are) and I thank you for that! Please remember it doesn't have to be a special occasion to come and visit. I have an open door policy so you can come any time and visit and eat lunch with the children. I also want to thank you for all of the support that you have shown towards our school. We celebrate Grandparent's Day for three days at Stamping Ground and yesterday we had 116 visitors, and today we had 168! That is amazing!!!

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And most importantly, cookies. ~Rudolph Giuliani