Room Mom

I was convinced to be the room mom for Avi's class this year.  I haven't ever done it before, so I didn't know what to expect.  Luckily I had a little bit of brain power to not sign up for too much with Dai's class too.  So my responsibilities have been to throw the class parties.  I have done 3 so far, so here they are.

We started with the Halloween party.  I have a great mom who gave me the angry birds set she used for the family reunion to use at the party.  It was such a hit!  We also did some pumpkin bowling, bobbing for donuts, and some other short games.  For it being my first party I think it went ok, I wasn't thinking clearly on the timing of things, so there were some bottle necks here and there, but the kids still had fun.

 You know Jeslyn can't be left out of the fun!

Then in November, the teacher wanted to do an etiquette dinner to try to teach the kids some manners.  Luckily all I had to do was arrange food to arrive, and there are some wonderful moms that did a great job with that!  They had to come to school in Sunday dress, and the boys had to escort the girls to the table after they got their food.  It was so cute to watch the boys fumble with trying to get the girls hand wrapped around their arms to escort them.  Before they were able to eat, they had to do a minute of silence.  I know those kids have never known a longer minute in their lives.  The teacher also insisted on them having intelligent conversation, but what I was hearing wasn't always that way, come on they are in 4th and 5th grades.

 For Christmas, we played a few games, decorated cookies, and the teacher let them play freeze dance.  We started with Christmas bingo, and Jeslyn thought it great to just eat the Swedish fish rather than play bingo herself.  We had a version of Taboo that we played and I was laughing my head of at that because the kids looked like deer caught in the headlights every time they got a new word.  They could talk and brag all they wanted, but as soon as they got the word and the timer, they couldn't say a word.  After that we let the kids decorate Christmas tree sugar cookies.  I was sick by the end of it when I saw what they had done to some of them.  The freeze dance competition was fun to watch, some kids are much more reserved, and others, just don't care what they are doing.  I got home with a super sugared up Jeslyn and a desperate need for a nap!