P.J's and Jumprope

The kids had a fun day at school on Thursday. Not only was it Pajama day (who wouldn't like to wear their jammies to school?!) but it was the annual "Jump Rope For Heart" fund raiser as well. After school got out (Thursday is early release in our district, so school was out at 1:45) the kids went to the gym, in their jammies, and jumped rope for heart! They were each in a group that rotated through various jump rope centers that each featured a different game. The kids had a ball and got lots of exercise!

Today Paige is at school again (yes, it's Saturday!) with her D.I (Destination Imagination) team getting ready for competition in three weeks! D.I is a science based curriculum that is focused on free thinking and imagination. The kids are given various problems and challenges that they must solve within a certain time. The solutions are only limited by your imagination and creativity! This is a program that is offered to kids who excel at school and who need 'enrichment'...which suits Paige to a T who was recently tested and is classified as 'borderline gifted'. She doesn't quite meet the districts requirements for the gifted program (she missed the level requirement by a mere few points!), but the school scrambles to get her into programs and such that will keep her challenged as her regular classroom curriculum is WAY to easy and 'boring' to her!
Ben is with Mark today signing up for T ball. We told him he needed to decide on his sport and he was vacillating between soccer and T-ball but eventually decided that he enjoyed T-ball so much last year that he wanted to keep it going again this year. Paige has cheer sign ups next week!

Enjoy the pictures of the kids in their jammies jumping rope!

Hugs to all,
Jaye



Paige getting ready to 'jump in'....




Ben getting ready to run into the 'jump area'...