Saturday, February 7, 2009

The "Me Museum"

Stella's Pre-K class is pretty cool. At least to me. Her teacher is really great and they do such fun things there.

One fun thing they do is called the "Me Museum". Every student gets to create what is essentially a week-long museum exhibit about themselves. The exhibit includes a book entitled "All About...", plus a few items from their lives. Toys. Books. Dolls. Whatever the kids want to bring in. In addition, the parents get to come in on the first day of their child's Me Museum and help to present everything.

Stella and daddy toiled very hard on her "All About Stella" book. She told me what pages she wanted. We took pictures. And Stella wrote out words for each page. You can click here to see the book (PDF).

Then we picked out which "artifacts" to bring. Stella chose her nutcracker, her Russian music box, her bear and her moose. She also brought along two books: "Pinkalicious" and "The Little Mermaid".

Stella was very excited on Me Museum Day. She really liked the fact that both mommy and daddy would go with her to school. When we all arrived, Stella set up three chairs for us in the front of the class. She sat there and beamed as the class gathered around us and as Miss Cassens told everyone to pay attention to Stella and her parents.

We read the "All About Stella" book and then Stella took questions from the audience. Most questions dealt with princesses.

Then daddy read "Pinkalicious" for the class. They were riveted.

Next... we whipped out the music box and nutcracker. They loved it!

Soon it was time to go. Stella waved goodbye to us from the window. She had a smile a mile wide.