Grannie Annie & Grandad: Miss Sarah's Guests

Visiting the Queen of Kinder-garten --

Several times a year, we go to visit Sarah's kinder-garten class ~~~

It all started when she was teaching at Edison Elementary. Wayne knows all about hammers and nails, so he purchased a bunch of little bitty hammers (tack hammers, he would call them . . . not a man's hammer!) and furnished an itty-bitty red toolbox with said hammers, some little screwdrivers and a couple of itty-bitty saws. Then he talked to the kids about building and let them drive nails and screws (what a lot of noise!) and saw off little pieces of wood.

This visit we did something different: Sarah had an idea for take-home Christmas gifts for the kids to make that she needed help with: enter Grannie Annie. She said the hammers were too noisy for this time, and poor Wayne was on his own to figure out an activity.

Well, he was only momentarily stumped, and then his old drama training asserted itself . . . He would tell the kids a story and then let them act it out.

Left: This is a story about a wife who tried to roll out too-long noodles in her too-short kitchen. At the advice of Grandpa Wiseman, all the barnyard animals are brought into the house. The kids are playing the animals . . .





In the mean-time, I am painting kids' hands for handprints on a Christmas bulb, the fingers of which are to be turned into 5 little snowmen. Sarah divided up her 24 (3 absent) kids into groups of four for what she calls "Centers", with Grandad taking one, Grannie Annie another, doing testing herself in a third, and the kids playing games at three other stations. Boy, that girl is talented!!!

And at the end of the day, Wayne did the Lion Hunt with the kiddies who were waiting for the bus, and they all had a blast, especially Grandad!

So it's always fun to be with Sarie and see the great things she does with her kiddies. Then she feeds us well and takes us to do fun things, giving us royal billing with those kids. "Grannie Annie & Grandad are coming!!" she tells them. How can you be anything but GREAT that kind of an intro???

Love ya, Sarie. Love your kids!!