Pizza and Pops

 

Today was Pizza and Pops day at Matthew's kindergarten class - a day when dads can come visit the class and have pizza with their kindergarteners.  Scott would have liked to go, but of course, wasn't able to.  I stood in for him.  There were a few other moms there so Matthew wasn't the only one without a "pop."  And although he would have liked to have his dad there, he was ok with me.  Here is a picture he drew for Dad.

 

Here's his picture up close, along with a little blurb about Dad. 

Here's what it says:

My Father

My father is special because he does good things to me.

He is about 24 years old.

I like it when my dad makes me waffles on Christmas.

My dad is as handsome as my grandpa.

My dad can do lots of things.  

He even knows how to fly airplanes and I know that he loves me.

I love him too!

Love, Matthew.

After having pizza, we got to see some things in Matthew's class that he had been working on.  Here's his plant (I think it's a pea plant or bean plant) that they planted a few weeks ago.  We got to take it home today.

We also worked on a fall sticker scene together.

Here's Matthew putting some stickers on his scene.

And our scene all finished

I tried to take a picture of us together.  Sorta worked.

We also wrote a story together.  Matthew's idea of a story was this: "A farmer drove a tractor."

Getting him to elaborate on that took a little doing, but we eventually got a few more sentences and something that sort of resembles a story.  The story involved the aforementioned farmer and some pumpkins that got in the way of his tractor.  We had a lot of fun at Pizza and Pops day and Scott/Pop/Daddy, you were missed!

As I was leaving I took a picture of the kindergarteners hidden turkeys.  They had a family homework project to decorate or hide their turkey as something so he wouldn't get eaten on Thanksgiving.  Matthew's turkey is the hulu dancer turkey (top row, center) with sunglasses and a grass skirt.  The turkeys were all very cute.