Bruria's מסיבת סוף שנה

Phew! Its hard being a mother with 4 kids in Gan!  Aside from the daily ins and outs of taking care of such young kids, it means you have to shlep to all their parties in Gan!  Well B"H I think I'm done for the year (Yisrael will have a סיום on ספר שמות and ספר ויקרא after Tisha B'Av, but that's Bentzi's turn!)

Bruria's end-of-the-year party was something special.  First of all, its a big milestone- after all, she'll be in first grade next year!  Its really amazing to watch how she and her classmates have grown over the years- they are really getting big! 

The גננות that Bruria had this year did an excellent job of letting the girls do their own projects (not so common here in E"Y) and she's really developed her talents nicely.  She is also on the threshold of reading- she knows all her א-ב and while they haven't officially started wtih reading, on her own, Bruria's started sounding out words, and trying to read and write them.

Her "graduation" was a wonderful end to a wonderful year.  They prepared a beautiful program of songs and a short song-skit, all based on the theme of תפילה.  Bruria was singing the songs and practicing the motions in the house for weeks, so it was familiar to me by the actual performance- but I enjoyed it nonetheless.  Bruria really enjoyed her chance to perform- with a smile on her face and a nice loud voice, she was really a star!  (takes after her mother, no?!)

May we continue to see much Nachas from Bruria, as she moves on to 1st grade (we've already bought the uniform shirts!)   May she go מחיל אל חיל!