MUSIC DAY, THE OFFICE ASSISTANT, AND HOMEWORK, OH MY!

Getting mini buns for school today, since her hair was a WRECK when she woke up.

Cora leading the K2 and K3 classes around during music time.

Dance it up girl. (Poor thing has her mama and daddy's dance moves...)

Manu and James flanking Coley (their favorite girl in their class, who is often fought over as "MY best friend") during the K4/K5 music time (the three of them are sitting at the bottom of the photo).

Hanging out in the school office with the director, while she should be napping. When I questioned her about it after school she said "But I didn't want to take a nap!")

 Amy taught her how to use paper clips.
Pretty sure we need to invest in a pack for busy time at home...

 Happily doing her homework and getting pretty darn good at tracing her name.

This summer her Auntie Taryn was very impressed with her pencil grip, but we can't take any credit for that. Cora just REALLY likes to write, trace, and color, and seat work is one of her favorite activities, whether at school or home. We don't know if her K2 teacher taught her how to hold a pen correctly or if she just learned from watching us and others, but we admit that it's nice not having this particular struggle with her (it took a lot of time and effort to get James to hold a pencil correctly). Now, if we could just convince her to write her name FORWARDS more often when she's doing it freehand... (She tends to start with the A and work back to the C for some reason). Also, we think it's interesting that when she writes her name freehand, she uses a capital C with everything else lower case, whereas James ALWAYS writes his name in all capitals. He's learning to write lower case letters as well, but they never appear in his name.