Joy School Graduation

Ashlee graduated from Joy School this past May. I am so proud of her. She has learned so much and was the perfect little student. I am so lucky to have been able to participate with teaching her and the other children. It was so much fun preparing and giving the lessons. Here is a video from the graduation. I really do miss it now that it's over.

A Child's Honesty

For Mother's Day in Joy School, the children were asked questions about "Mommy" and thier answers (unedited) were written down on a Mother's Day card. Here were Ashlee's responses. The truth hurts.

I love Joy School!

I am teaching joy school this week and I am so impressed with what they are learning! This week they are learning how to set goals and the joy of order. We have a paper with a big circle on it. The child's name is written at the top and their goal is written at the bottom. Ashlee decided to learn to tie her shoes, spell her name (she has every letter correct except for one!!!) and write it. Next month they will be learning about Obedience and Decisions. This has been so much fun for me, a lot of work, but so worth it. I really enjoy preparing lessons and being involved with teaching Ashlee and the other children (I even got to teach them "Going on a Bear Hunt" song/ finger play). They are so cute!

Our little Mary.

We had our Joy School Christmas program last week. The kids were so cute and did such a good job singing. The very last song they did they got to dress up. Ashlee was the perfect Mary. Halfway through we caught her kissing the baby Jesus. Heather took a better picture of her holding Jesus ("I'll have to get that from you!"). She looked so cute!

Making Gingerbread Men!

I had to make Gingerbread dough for Joy school and look who got to help me! She was the perfect assistant any chef/mom could ask for!