Shopping Day

Today, the First Grade had their shopping day to spend the "money" they earned all last semester for behavior.  Each day they got a stamp of a penny, nickel, dime, or nothing depending on their behavior.  The teachers counted up their money and gave them a card with the amount of quarters they had earned.  Then each classroom had a station where you could spend your money.  I did face painting for 50 cents.  They also had cookie decorating, hair glitter, nail polish, tattoos, and a store with school supplies like fun erasers and cool notebooks.  I had a blast helping with this:

 

 

After Emily spent all her quarters she hung out with me trying out the face paints:

Because it was so close to Emily's birthday I stayed to have lunch with Emily and we passed out cupcakes that she helped decorate:

I really enjoyed myself.  This was the first time I was able to help out in the classroom.  Before lunch I laminated and cut out some things for the teacher and then after lunch I helped the kids count their "jungle tickets" to get items from the treasure chest.

Starting in January I also start teaching the 4 year olds/PreK class at church for the winter semester.  We have a big class this year and were brave enough to let them paint one Sunday!  Abigail is in the class with me this year: