It all started when I replied to a mom's email asking if anyone can help her out as her meeting in San Jose got moved to the day she's scheduled help at Katrina's Kindergarten class.
For some reason I really wanted to help this mom even though I've already signed up for Prep (which doesn't require physical presence in the classroom, just cutting/pasting etc. at home - thankfully Jonathan helped with most of last week's matting project) Maybe 'cause our situations are so similar that we both have long commutes and can't always teleconference but still want to be involved with our kids.
Turned out I became the very first official parent volunteer for the class so Katrina was pleasantly surprised to have mom there. I didn't know what to expect but the teachers made sure I got to spend time with Katrina by switching kids around and also assigned me a more interesting task of taking small groups of kids out for a "Fall walk". We walked around campus and talked about what we see/hear/touch/smell/taste (didn't do taste)
in the fall. We stomped on some leaves to make some crunchy sounds and clipped some brown ones on our clipboards.
I was a little worried the boys would run off or become uncontrollable but everyone was eager to talk and write on their clipboards and behaved very well !
