Dear Parents,
This is my final email to close the end of a wonderful experience together with your children. I am always overwhelmed with the showering of so many gifts and expressions of love and gratitude for my helper and me, because, honestly, we are the ones that receive so much from these little ones all year. Oh, how they get into our hearts and seal us forever! That has certainly been the case, and we thank you for so much and for making us feel so loved and appreciated!
This week is one that has been filled with a roller coaster of emotions. Each time I would hear some child make a comment, I would think, “I’m gunna miss hearing such things from this little cutie!” Oh, how I want to freeze it all! I have loved, truly loved my time with each one of these children. Thank you. Thank you so much.
The program was everything I expected it to be. The children sang their hearts out. The awards were long, crazy and extensive. The children were fabulous and perfect, as always. I must add my feelings about this refined group of children. We have come so far this year and they have been wonderful putty in my hands, willing to comply and easy to entreat. I hope you noticed how very patient every one of them sat through that very long ceremony. They certainly have learned to be great cheerleaders in celebrating the success of others and quiet their own whims. Oh, how I believe in this, as we watch a generation of entitlement infiltrate our world. No whining, “What about me?” or worrying about themselves. Simply finding the joy of another’s success! I loved it. From the beginning, we have passed out treats for every 5 fun sheets completed. We sing to them, “You have a candy day! La, la, la, la, lah lah!” Every time! Others looking on and seeing someone receive, have had to learn how they in turn, could work and receive as well. It is a tough lesson in the beginning, but it is the law of the harvest, which I totally believe in. Since school began, we have been witnessing and cheering for a group of children that have been willing to put in the time and effort to achieve amazing things, with their parents in tow, sacrificing hours upon hours to listen to them read or make sure work is complete. That kind of dedication finds merit and consideration in my book every time! I am so very proud of what was accomplished! I could not reward them enough for that! I wanted to give them everything!
I must mention Talli, who is the eighth child in her family to attend my preschool and just like every other child in her family, received a perfect Fun Sheets score. Incredible! She is one of ten children, all adopted by Layne and Jaime, all who come with challenges from their past and all who have had perfect homework scores in my school. Honestly, I don’t know how Jamie is able to keep it all in check. Each year, I continue to be amazed! I want to cheer for her and give her some amazing award, but I’m sure a tally of golden bricks are stacking up somewhere in heaven for mothers like her in a mansion above. I am in awe of great parents continually. Being a mom in today’s world is a daunting task. I salute you brave, wonderful moms out there everywhere!
Splash Day was awesome! My newly ordered trampoline mat was the wrong fit, but we still managed to celebrate without it. We fished, slid, waded, squirt and built sand forts to our heart’s delight! The children loaded pails with buckets and buckets of water to make a sandy stream. They even filled it with fish! Madden was funny as he loaded his fishing hook to the brim, “Look how many fish I caught!” I cut a watermelon in a grid, pulling small squares of long stalked melon out, “Who wants a watermelon Popsicle?” The children squealed and raced over. Tolson was so cute. “Umm. I don’t want this. It doesn’t taste like a Popsicle!” It’s watermelon! Later, we had real Popsicles, and all was well with his world again! Ha! We had great fun watching the children sit and visit with one another while eating lunch. Miss Julie said, “It’s too bad they grow up and forget how easy it is to talk to one another!” I whole-heartily agreed. They are so perfect. They are so sweet. We will miss each one of them.
Monday, the spiders beat the Daddy Long Legs and the Elves beat the Fire Dragons. I’m going to miss those fun games. I’m gunna miss the morning spill with Talli and Navy telling all they could think of before the rest of the crew arrived. I’m going to miss being reminded to do fun sheets, or the calendar by my ever alert and attentive students, Niki and Bradley. I’m going to miss the “Payson Gang” rallying in cahoots on the carpet squares or teaming together on the playground in a united game, orchestrated and led by Payson. I’m going to miss the ‘cat girls” meowing and pawing with Bria in command. I’m going to miss the sweet interactions of students getting their seatwork done together, Mason D and Tolson, helping one another figure out what the instructions were, Jacob and Emmett, keeping one another amused and distracted as they sat back to back, the older students helping the younger ones read their games. Ahhh! I have tried to let you in on so many of the sweet things we have enjoyed throughout the year with these emails, but there is so much, too much. And if I had the time, I could go on and on. I have so loved my time with these special children, the things they say and the perfect way they are. I want to hang on to it forever, but it is like sand in my hands, and today, it is gone.
Have a great summer! I am so glad to have some of your children returning, my only consolation. Thank you for a most wonderful, perfect year. God bless you all!
Much, much love forever,
Mrs. McClure
And Miss Julie, too-lee
Here are a few of our cuties from the program. We had so much fun!
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