Curriclum Night

Last night, Ethan and I went to Curriculum Night in Madeleine's classroom. Upon finding her desk, we were treated to the following cheery message:

"Dear mommy and daddy,
waht woud you like to lern?  I love you!  Go banana's!  Please look at my shiny desk.  Love, Madeleine."

Other parents had requests to "please look at my artwork," or "please see if you can find my name on the chore chart."  All Madeleine wants us to do is look at her shiny desk.  A shiny desk for which she can take no credit, unless she stays after school and helps the janitor clean the classroom.  But at least she advised us to go banana's.  A Curriculum Night can certainly get dull if you don't remember to go banana's while you're there.

We got to look at some of the classwork in Madeleine's school folder, including the following:

Looks like the perfect pizza has sauce and cheese on it, her favorite color is blue (and maybe peach??) and the perfect day involves presents.  A dog is the perfect pet, in her eyes, even though she claims to want a bunny.  Her favorite snack appears to be lemonade and a chocolate-covered granola bar, although at first glance one might mistake it for a brick-shaped turd.  I'm really glad that she likes "evrything" at school and that she loves Ethan, Julia and I.  And that she considers something fun to be...well...hmmm.  Let's take a closer look at that one:

Something fun seems to be a red smear.  Uh...a sled?  A red marker?  A rocket? 
A bloody arm?  Really no idea on this one.  Maybe she knew we were going to be stumped by this.  Maybe Madeleine's "something fun" is STUMPING HER PARENTS.  Very sneaky, Madeleine.


We also got to look through her writing and drawing journals.  I'm glad to see that she's not holding back on showing her true artistic style in first grade:

Ahh, yes, good old Ivy and Bean, along with a very distressed girl who is about to be pulled into the vaporous, smoky abyss, as well as her would-be rescuer, who would probably be better able to save the day were she not hanging upside down and having her throat stepped on by Ivy.


Inside Madeleine's writing journal were several weekend recaps.  Probably her most exciting weekend was this one:

"Over the weekend I had nana and grahmps over."

A visit from her grandparents is pretty special, but what appears to be even more special is the fact that Nana had a sudden growth spurt and is now just a hair shorter than Grahmps!  They have also both recently adopted a duck-footed posture...either that, or they're practicing their ballet foot positions.


Finally, Madeleine's latest writing journal answered the prompt "What would you do if you were president?"  Here's Madeleine's solution to our country's needs:

"If I were the president I would stop pollootin."

I love it!  That's a great goal!  Although I think she may want to re-consider how she goes about it.  Reducing cars on the roads is a great idea.  But I'm not entirely sure that getting rid of cars entirely in favor of horse-drawn carriages is going to be embraced by the people.  Maybe if you have a horse like the one above, though, who looks like he can actually run FASTER than a car, you'd be a little more open to the idea of resuming the good old horse-and-buggy days...

All in all, it was thoroughly enjoyable to learn about what Madeleine has been up to at school!