The Garden School Tattler

This is our first day without the summer big kids. They are going back to school today, and we wish them the very best experience. We love the big kids, but their care and feeding reaches into other categories that we just don't have the staff for. When we are on the go, the big kids are an asset, but when we are at home every day, there is just not enough for the big kids to do. Hide and seek in the building during regular class time is a sight to behold!

Our graduates have slowly left. Our last child was Jack Snyder. He will be going to Newburgh Elementary and will have a "family teacher." That means he will have one of the teachers his mother and some of his aunts had. Jack will come home from school to grandma's house twice a week. It's such a small world. When Jack started at the GS, he was no bigger than Robby who sat quietly yesterday watching from his infant swing.

And what do we want for our graduates? We want them to take with them a security about learning. We want them to know that other children in the classroom, together with them, make a team. We want them to be kind, and know how to love one another. We want them to be helpful and courteous to their teachers, know when to be quiet, and know how to listen and do their best so that they will always be a class treasure. We want them to share what they know in a polite way, and we want them to always do the hard jobs because the harder the job the more they learn and learning doesn't stop in school.

Yesterday David's family brought in a new train set. It is a marvelous toy and we are very grateful. The kids absolutely went crazy about this new set. They had track all over the place and they quarreled over the trains at first but settled down to a real sharing.

We are all looking forward to that real break in the weather. It's just too hot.

Miss Kelly is doing a pampered chef party this afternoon at school. Please feel free to look over the neat merchandise. The proceeds go to the school.

The DVD Miss Kelly and Mr. Tim made of summer field trips is available. Please call the school. They are a nominal fee and run 15 minutes. They have music and pictures and are really quite beautifully done.