Saturday, April 4, 2015

Baby Tink

Elise’s third grade teacher announced just a month before school started that she was expecting their first baby! This was very exciting news and having a teacher who was expecting a baby was really fun for those third graders! As the due date grew closer, a few other moms & I put together a little baby shower from the class. These moms went above & beyond and did an outstanding job!

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It was a book-theme baby shower…appropriately held in the school library. When I was pregnant with Sarah, my first graders also gave me a book shower. Each student brought in a children’s book, with an adhesive book plate on the inside saying who had given each book. This was the portion of the baby shower that I was in charge of. I emailed all the moms and handed out book labels and would you believe that with 19 students we did not get a single duplicate book?! Mrs. Tinklenberg looked at each and every book and who it was from and just delighted in it all. So fun.

The other part of the baby book shower I got going was the ABC book the kids made. There are 2 para-pros that work in that classroom each day, so they did the grunt work of getting each child to create a page for each letter of the alphabet. On the back of their page, they predicted if they thought the baby would be a boy or girl and wrote what they love about having Mrs. T as a teacher. It was SUPER sweet!

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Then there were some moms in charge of food and decorations. I had sent them links to websites of examples of baby book showers and they just went for it!

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Every food item had a coordinating book!

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A couple other moms had games. The one Elise is doing here is drawing a picture of Baby Tink, which has nothing whatsoever to do with books, but it was fun anyway. Smile One game had several book character pictures and you had to match them to the proper book title. Another was to write advice to Mrs. T about being a mom and those were written on pretty square pieces of paper and placed in a “pocket” from A Pocket for Corduroy.

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Just a little over a week later, baby boy Tink arrived.

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He is now almost 8 weeks old and Mrs. T will be returning to the classroom sometime after spring break. The kids have missed her, and she has missed them, but I know she will miss being with her baby every day!

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