Parker's class

I spent the morning in Parker's class which I've been trying to avoid since it just bugs me and I do enough outside the class stuff. But today was 100 days of school day and Parker was so damn excited and I didn't have to work at the preschool, I thought what the heck?

When I got there, they were just about to start the stations where they had activities related to 100. Making a snack bag of 100 different snacks (cereal, raisin, m&m's, etc), counting 100 buttons, stacking 100 cubes, and my station which was making a crown. Each strip of paper had to have 10 stamps on it. Then each of the 10 strips were stapled to a crown. Seems easy enough, right? Well...almost all of the kids (including Parker) didn't know when they had got to 10 strips. And many of them couldn't accurately put 10 stamps on each strip. Some kids just refused to do it and wanted me to do theirs (which we know didn't happen). When there was only 15 minutes left, everyone wanted their crown finished and since there was only one stapler (yes, one), there was a long line of kids waiting and shoving their stuff in my face (Ms RACHEL, Ms RACHEL!). I finished some of them when the kids went to lunch but jeez. Crazy.

Then when I was about to leave to get the girls, two girls came in saying they couldn't find one of their lunches. We looked all over, called the parents, discussed buying a lunch at the cafeteria, looked some more and finally gave up. We started walking to the cafeteria and then she saw it on the floor outside the bathroom. I thought the whole thing was ridiculous until....Parker came running back to the room saying he had forgotten his lunch! A good 10 minutes after lunch had started!