Saturday, May 05, 2007

Who's the Clown?

We had a surprise visit from Rainbow the Clown (Millee Wrenn) Thursday! Millee is my friend from Tunica whom happens to be the Children's Librarian at Olive Branch Library.


For the last week of school, the daycare children visit their parents/grans place of employment. We were treated with co-worker's darling sunshine and 8 of her peers. This one visit reminded me how much fun providing storytime can be. Do you think they will come for a monthly visit?

These children are treated like kings/queens with umpteen servants. Before they reach kindergarden, they know numbers, colors, animals, shapes, etc. all thanks to the excellent Children's Daycare Program. I think, but I' pretty sure, there are 60 students for the 9 kids. Oh, if we could just provides this for all our Mississippi children.

11 comments:

Debi said...

Wouldn't that be wonderful?

I couldn't believe when I read the words Olive Branch. When we lived in Memphis, we took our kitties to the coolest vet's office ever...located, yep, you guessed it, in Olive Branch, MS.

sage said...

It looks like a wonderful preschool. Do you know where I can get a pair of sunglasses like those?

maggie moran said...

Debi, you wouldn't recognize OB now! We have malls!

Sage, I googled jumbo sunglasses. This site had a reasonable price... http://www.fakecrap.com/products/jumbo_glasses.html

Anonymous said...

How cute! I loved playing with those parachute things when I was young.

By the way, I have a couple questions for you regarding your challenge:

- is nonfiction allowed?
- is West Virginia considered part of the South or no?

Thanks!

maggie moran said...

Lesley, non-fiction is great! I was just thinking of doing a post on all the great memoirs, such as All Over but the Shoutin', Coming of Age in Mississippi, and Mississippi Sissy.

I think WV is fine b/c it contains a big chunk of the Appalacians. Wonder if WVirginians consider themselves southern?

Anonymous said...

Clowns have always made me nervous for some reason, but the lady on the right in the pic makes me smile. :)

Lana said...

that looks like so much fun :)

Anonymous said...

Oh, good! All Over But the Shoutin' was one of the books I wanted to read for the challenge. :)

I had a friend from WV and she said they did not consider themselves Southern, more Appalachian if anything. But she sure did have a Southern accent, at least to my Northern ears!

maggie moran said...

Paul, you're sweet!

TxMom, I hope they had fun. You never know what they remember at this young age. The room was total silence when I opened the door and Rainbow walked in. I was really worried w/ the crickets chirpin' then one kid piped up and asked if she was a clown. Pshew! :)

Great, Leslie, looks like you are all set.

sage said...

Ok, I have my standards and refuse to buy anything for a place called "fakecrap" lol

maggie moran said...

Just sounds like it won't arrive in one piece, right Sage!