Bingo night video

Emma and Bailey laugh it up at Bingo Night at their school Friday night.

Bingo night

Emma's kindergarten class had a Bingo night tonight at her school, with pizza and soda. Her friend Bailey, who is in another kindergarten class at the school, played Bingo also and brought her mom.


We didn't win, but came close, as evidenced by Kristen's one-spot-away Blackout Bingo card, where you have to get every number to win a prize.

Emma the storyteller

Emma wrote a book today, or at least a story. She dictated it to me and I wrote it down, so in her eyes I wrote it and she "told" the story.

The story is below, but as an introduction I should say that it involves her best friend, Mikayla, pictured above, at right, as Emma blows out the candles at her 5th birthday party. Emma started kindergarten last week and came home today with a book that everyone in her class put together about the Cookie Monster finding cookies.

Here's the story, in Emma's words. It's titled "Emma" and she gives it 5 stars.

Emma
Written by Daddy.
Told by Emma.

Emma and Mikayla went downtown. I showed Mikayla my Cookie Monster book. Mikayla liked it.

The next day was Halloween. Me and Mikayla said "We're going to steal some candy."

We went door to door. And we had enough candy for the night. Before we go to the next stop, we stopped on the pavement and I said "We are going to get one more candy and then we'll have enough."

Tomorrow we get to play in the snow all summer long because it's a play area.

The End

'Snow' blows: 2 stars

Emma's book club continues with her review of "Snow," a Dr. Seuss knockoff meant for beginning readers. Emma's a beginning reader, but we've been reading this book for so many years that she's bored by it, so it gets 2 out of 5 stars

Take a look at the book here:
http://search2.barnesandnoble.com/BookViewer/?ean=9780394800271

Emma's book club begins

Emma is only through with two days of kindergarten, and she's already turning into a book reviewer. A monthly assignment that her teacher has given us is to keep track of the books we read and discuss with her, which Emma then rates on a scale of one to five stars.

Tonight we read "Sock Monkey Goes to Hollywood," which Emma gave four out of five stars.

The first book she picked to read was, of course, a cookbook. "C is for Cooking" features the Sesame Street characters. This book got five stars. Her mom would probably score it just as high.