You Are Our Wish: Something Catchy

I've got nothing. In speech class you learn all about beginning your speech with a great attention getter to draw in your audience and get them to listen. Plus you should have a good vehicle as your transition from point to point that relates back to your awesome introduction and helps you wrap everything up. (Thank you Mrs. R.)

In education classes you learn about the anticipatory set. The purpose of the anticipatory set is to:

Provide continuity from previous lessons, if applicable
Allude to familiar concepts and vocabulary as a reminder and refresher
Tell the students briefly what the lesson will be about
Gauge the students' level of collective background knowledge of the subject to help inform your instruction
Activate the students' existing knowledge base
Whet the class's appetite for the subject at hand
Briefly expose the students to the lesson's objectives and how you will get them to the end result

Side note- Thank you about.com. Please do not think I actually got out notes from college that would be at least 9 years old to get a good definition for anticipatory set. However, they are downstairs in the filing cabinet, just in case.(Not sure whom I should thank here. Peggy? Ellen? Madeline Hunter?)

So my point to all of this? I don't have anything catchy to introduce this month's official waitlist numbers. We are excited about them, because they are official (gotta love things that are official), but our unofficial numbers are even better.

Why the difference? You do not officially go off the waitlist until all of your referral paperwork has been returned to AGCI. (You have to admit, this does make sense.) So this is a phone call month, but obviously it has taken awhile for this to happen with everything happening in the adoption world. So "B" sent an email as her anticipatory set to our March phone call, which happened to include our waitlist numbers.

So the official numbers. . . .

Boy