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Kindergarten Tours

Aliya was asked to speak to the potential parents at the two kindergarten tours at her school. She did a great job!

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This week was also Staff Appreciation Week at school and she made cards for various teachers. I didn’t write down what she wrote to her classroom teachers and the bus driver, but the others were really cute so I’ve included the text below. I have been assured that she WILL eventually be able to spell in English.

  • Library – Dear Miss Morenzeti thankyou for leting me read al the buitful bookes you have in your library. Love Aliya riding [reading] is fun
  • Gym – Dear Miss Lasi and Miss Loiad gym is now my favrite speshal aspeshaly bicose you gise are the teachers. I love roning! Love Aliya
  • Music – Dear Miss Macantosh and Miss More thankyou for teaching me music ive lernd abut and now im learning play gitar and piano Love Aliya
  • Art – Dear Miss Solas thankyou so much for ticheng me al aboiut art. Ive had alout of difrent art teachers but so far you’re the one thates tot me the most. Love Aliya
  • Principal – Dear Miss Gonsales I realy think you’re a realy osame prinsipal I mean come on you lock and you see a butiful schoole with kids who are acshaly lerning. Thank so much! Love Aliya
  • Inglesh – Dear Miss Jeanes im so glad that Barbiere has inglish clase and im so glade you cold teach me so much about Japan ive never lernd so muche. Love Aliya
  • Two-Way Curriculum Coordinator – Dear Miss Zecan Borck thankyou for helping me with my spitch [speech]. And yanow wate I think I think you the teacher in the schoole that is tring hard to mack kids happy. Love Aliya

A-Lo

I felt a little like J-Lo’s manager yesterday, shuttling Aliya (A-Lo) around to her “appearances”. She had the day off from school because the new kindergarteners were coming for orientation. She started the day (in her new Hannah Montana dress, wedge heels, and freshly painted nails) as Mystery Reader for Adlani’s class. She read If I Had a Gorilla, and also Punk Farm, which is a pretty tough book and includes words like “rehearsal”, “finale”, and “footsteps.” The only word she got stuck on was “microphone.” The kids were spellbound.

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Then it was off to Maria’s Spanish immersion preschool class to read a couple of David books. If you’re not familiar with David, he’s a sometimes naughty boy who resembles Adlani at least in spirit. Maria was very surprised at Aliya’s Spanish and reading abilities, as in addition to reading the book she pointed out things and explained what was happening in the pictures to the kids (in Spanish). When David runs down the street naked (I told you he resembles Adlani!) his mother yells for him to come back inmediatamente. She had to practice that one a few times but she didn’t stumble over it during the story.

Our next stop was kindergarten orientation at Barbieri, where she got the royal treatment from Mrs. Shea and Mrs. Gonzalez. She did a great job with her prepared speech and then spent the rest of orientation with me giving her the hairy eyeball from the front row as she fidgeted and giggled. She is 6 after all. One of the dads came up to me afterward and said, “You must be so proud…she’s not even my kid and I almost started crying.” Only one tear escaped during her speech but it was a pretty big one.

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These are the wonderful ladies responsible for Aliya’s kindergarten success – Señora Robles and Señora Rodriguez. Aliya loves them so much and is really sad about the school year coming to an end. She told me that you learn a lot more when you like your teacher, because you’re not spending all of your time thinking about what you don’t like about her and you can spend more time learning.

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