I dreamed last night that D and I found two extra rooms in our house that we had forgotten about. I was so excited because one of them had a gigantic white desk in it that was completely empty and fit me perfectly, and the room looked out over the street and had plenty of sunlight, and a door I could close, so I could start teleworking full time insetad of occasionally.
This is the third time in the last year that I've dreamed we found extra rooms and more space in our house that we forgot existed.
G has been planning his birthday party (which is still four months away) for the last 6 weeks, and finally settled on a theme a few days ago. He wants to have a sea creatures birthday party at one of the indoor pools near us. So for the past 24 hours, he's been sketching ideas for the cake and party favors. This morning, he developed the final drawings for what he wants the top of his cake to look like, what party favors he wants, and what the pinata should look like.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Other goings on
School fundraiser tonight at Chipotle for G's school, Chipotle donated 50% of their proceeds to Brown. They should do it once a month, I have no doubt they more than doubled their typical Sunday profits, even after giving away 50%. The line was out the door and it took us half an hour to get our food (if you don't know what Chipotle is, it's a fast food burrito chain, and it normally takes about 3 minutes between walking in the door and walking away with your food).
M melted down by the time we started eating, refused to eat, wouldn't stop crying, we had to pack up and leave in the middle of dinner, G started crying b/c he was hungry and I packed his dinner up halfway through. Come to find out M was upset because she was the only one at the table who didn't have her own chair, and she wanted her own chair instead of having to sit on my lap (we were at a table with friends). I told her it to please tell us these things so we can fix them.
I started taking the kids swimming once a week again two weeks ago, after being off for a little over a month, and was impressed that M is still able to doggy paddle pretty well after 5 weeks not in the pool. She's doing really well, and even swam underwater underneath me (I was making a tunnel for G, and she wanted to try it too). She's doing great in the water.
She's also starting to recognize more of her numbers, which is neat. She knows her uppercase and most of her lowercase alphabet, but is just starting to click with numbers. She's also trying to learn some basic math and tries to figure out what different numbers put together equal. Most of the time she gets it wrong, but she's interested in it and likes to try to do it. I put G in time out yesterday morning for 10 minutes beacuse he was being so mean about her getting things wrong. I told him it would be like if one of his classmates who's already reading made fun of him for not recognizing one of his lower case letters or sounding out a word wrong. It makes me so mad when he acts like that toward her.
She's doing a pretty good job sounding out basic words with our help too, she's a lot more interested in reading than G was at the same age. She definitely can't do it on her own, but she has fun sounding them out with our help.
She cracks me up because she's such a Colorado girl, and she compains when we go on bike rides and it's 80 degrees outside and sunny that it's just too hot and makes her too tired. It really does sap her energy, but it feels lovely to me! She is still a pistol on her bike (with training wheels). I used to have to just look away sometimes because it scared me too much to watch her - I knew she was in control but she would go so fast and take curves so quickly, it freaked me out. I don't look away anymore because I know she can handle it, but she still amazes me on her bike. It's this little blue bike with 12" wheels and thankfully wide spaced training wheels, and she hauls up steep hills and rides the brakes back down them, and somehow manages to keep up with the rest of us on this tiny little bike. She was very happy today when she and G and I went on a bike ride because she got to be the leader the whole time and choose where we were going to go on our ride.
Completely separate subject, take a look at Lonestar on Monday nights at 8pm on Fox. Good show.
M melted down by the time we started eating, refused to eat, wouldn't stop crying, we had to pack up and leave in the middle of dinner, G started crying b/c he was hungry and I packed his dinner up halfway through. Come to find out M was upset because she was the only one at the table who didn't have her own chair, and she wanted her own chair instead of having to sit on my lap (we were at a table with friends). I told her it to please tell us these things so we can fix them.
I started taking the kids swimming once a week again two weeks ago, after being off for a little over a month, and was impressed that M is still able to doggy paddle pretty well after 5 weeks not in the pool. She's doing really well, and even swam underwater underneath me (I was making a tunnel for G, and she wanted to try it too). She's doing great in the water.
She's also starting to recognize more of her numbers, which is neat. She knows her uppercase and most of her lowercase alphabet, but is just starting to click with numbers. She's also trying to learn some basic math and tries to figure out what different numbers put together equal. Most of the time she gets it wrong, but she's interested in it and likes to try to do it. I put G in time out yesterday morning for 10 minutes beacuse he was being so mean about her getting things wrong. I told him it would be like if one of his classmates who's already reading made fun of him for not recognizing one of his lower case letters or sounding out a word wrong. It makes me so mad when he acts like that toward her.
She's doing a pretty good job sounding out basic words with our help too, she's a lot more interested in reading than G was at the same age. She definitely can't do it on her own, but she has fun sounding them out with our help.
She cracks me up because she's such a Colorado girl, and she compains when we go on bike rides and it's 80 degrees outside and sunny that it's just too hot and makes her too tired. It really does sap her energy, but it feels lovely to me! She is still a pistol on her bike (with training wheels). I used to have to just look away sometimes because it scared me too much to watch her - I knew she was in control but she would go so fast and take curves so quickly, it freaked me out. I don't look away anymore because I know she can handle it, but she still amazes me on her bike. It's this little blue bike with 12" wheels and thankfully wide spaced training wheels, and she hauls up steep hills and rides the brakes back down them, and somehow manages to keep up with the rest of us on this tiny little bike. She was very happy today when she and G and I went on a bike ride because she got to be the leader the whole time and choose where we were going to go on our ride.
Completely separate subject, take a look at Lonestar on Monday nights at 8pm on Fox. Good show.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Other notes
Forgot to mention that G scored his first two soccer goals at his game last week. It was their third game, and I think it was their third loss, although they don't keep score. G is on first string with two other boys who are really good and who are more aggressive than him. The whole team has been working on being more aggressive at going after the ball, and G was so excited when he scored.
M's two favorite things at school are workbench and the Large Motor Center (the LMC) where they go to do music and movement type activities. She loves to sing and dance, and she comes home singing all the songs they did in the LMC. We never heard G sing them, but as soon as she starts singing them, he remembers them and they sing together. The workbench has pieces of scrap wood, nails, screws, old appliances, hammers, and screwdrivers, and they pound nails and take the old appliances apart. She loves doing the workbench too.
Talked to G's teacher after school today. Poor girl is fried. This is her first year teaching school and she's teaching 25 kindergartners. She has an awesome team of K teachers working with her, but I know she is stressed. She seems not to let the kids know it though, because G thinks she's great, and he's perceptive enough that he would notice if she lost control of the class. She told me today that in the middle of the day today she closed her eyes and thought "can you all please stop talking for just five minutes?". I asked G about it, and he told me that sometimes when they leave their desks to go sit on the carpet, and they're about 60% quiet, they have to go back to their desks and do it over again.
Anyway, he had told us that she was doing math games on the playground with him, and I asked her today if they'd developed a plan for him. The GT teacher assessed him a few weeks ago, and although I don't know the results of the assessment, I believe they found that although he conceptually gets some pretty advanced math skills, he needs a consistent foundation that he doesn't have a full grasp of yet - things like basic addition of single digit numbers that he gets familiar enough with to do correctly all the time. He can do things like add 20 + 25 but will still get 6 + 7 wrong if he doesn't count on his fingers.
So they had their kindergarten math meetings this week with all the K teachers and the principal, and they're going to try to put him in with the 1st grade math, but are not yet sure if the timing will work or if the subject matter being covered will work. I think they're going to try it on a trial basis to see if he gets it. If not, the GT teacher gave Ms Kaplan some suggestions on things to do in the classroom, and she said she's already been having him help her with things in class like her orders (no idea what she's ordering), asking him what's 220 + 25 and things like that. I am so grateful that, as chaotic as this time must be for her as a new teacher, she wants to try to do this with him. We are very blessed.
G's been talking about how there are some kids in class who do their jobs all the time and others who don't. I told his teacher that today, and she said she definitely depends on the good listeners to help set examples for the other kids. We checked G into school around 1:30 on Monday when we got back from Steamboat, and she said she missed his presence in the class because he's one of the kids she can depend on to behave well in class. I told him this evening we were very proud of him. He told me he thought Estavan is an even better listener than him. G tends to be overly confident in his abilities, and it's nice to hear him have a realistic view that he's not always the best at everything. No idea where this idea got into his brain, because neither D nor I have ever brought this up, but he's been talking about wanting to skip a grade, either 1st grade or 5th grade (???) because he thinks he knows so much. It's humorous, but rather odd. I keep reminding him he has to learn to read before he can think about skipping a grade!
All that aside, we've been extremely impressed the school so far and with the things he's bringing home from school. They're learning how to retell stories verbally and through drawing the beginning, the conflict, the middle, and the end, and they are learning how to break sentences up into subject, verb, and predicate. It's pretty amazing to me what they're learning 6 weeks into kindergarten.
M's two favorite things at school are workbench and the Large Motor Center (the LMC) where they go to do music and movement type activities. She loves to sing and dance, and she comes home singing all the songs they did in the LMC. We never heard G sing them, but as soon as she starts singing them, he remembers them and they sing together. The workbench has pieces of scrap wood, nails, screws, old appliances, hammers, and screwdrivers, and they pound nails and take the old appliances apart. She loves doing the workbench too.
Talked to G's teacher after school today. Poor girl is fried. This is her first year teaching school and she's teaching 25 kindergartners. She has an awesome team of K teachers working with her, but I know she is stressed. She seems not to let the kids know it though, because G thinks she's great, and he's perceptive enough that he would notice if she lost control of the class. She told me today that in the middle of the day today she closed her eyes and thought "can you all please stop talking for just five minutes?". I asked G about it, and he told me that sometimes when they leave their desks to go sit on the carpet, and they're about 60% quiet, they have to go back to their desks and do it over again.
Anyway, he had told us that she was doing math games on the playground with him, and I asked her today if they'd developed a plan for him. The GT teacher assessed him a few weeks ago, and although I don't know the results of the assessment, I believe they found that although he conceptually gets some pretty advanced math skills, he needs a consistent foundation that he doesn't have a full grasp of yet - things like basic addition of single digit numbers that he gets familiar enough with to do correctly all the time. He can do things like add 20 + 25 but will still get 6 + 7 wrong if he doesn't count on his fingers.
So they had their kindergarten math meetings this week with all the K teachers and the principal, and they're going to try to put him in with the 1st grade math, but are not yet sure if the timing will work or if the subject matter being covered will work. I think they're going to try it on a trial basis to see if he gets it. If not, the GT teacher gave Ms Kaplan some suggestions on things to do in the classroom, and she said she's already been having him help her with things in class like her orders (no idea what she's ordering), asking him what's 220 + 25 and things like that. I am so grateful that, as chaotic as this time must be for her as a new teacher, she wants to try to do this with him. We are very blessed.
G's been talking about how there are some kids in class who do their jobs all the time and others who don't. I told his teacher that today, and she said she definitely depends on the good listeners to help set examples for the other kids. We checked G into school around 1:30 on Monday when we got back from Steamboat, and she said she missed his presence in the class because he's one of the kids she can depend on to behave well in class. I told him this evening we were very proud of him. He told me he thought Estavan is an even better listener than him. G tends to be overly confident in his abilities, and it's nice to hear him have a realistic view that he's not always the best at everything. No idea where this idea got into his brain, because neither D nor I have ever brought this up, but he's been talking about wanting to skip a grade, either 1st grade or 5th grade (???) because he thinks he knows so much. It's humorous, but rather odd. I keep reminding him he has to learn to read before he can think about skipping a grade!
All that aside, we've been extremely impressed the school so far and with the things he's bringing home from school. They're learning how to retell stories verbally and through drawing the beginning, the conflict, the middle, and the end, and they are learning how to break sentences up into subject, verb, and predicate. It's pretty amazing to me what they're learning 6 weeks into kindergarten.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Lost tooth!
G came home from school yesterday with his first lost tooth in a bag. He lost it in the middle of class "sometime in the 2 or 3 o clock hour" he said. He came downstairs this morning with a dollar the tooth fairy left under his pillow. I believe she hid his tooth on top of our armoire in our room. Hopefully she won't forget it's there.
Went to Steamboat for a couple of nights this past weekend, our neighbors offered their condo up to us. Oh my gosh, they are in a prime spot on top of a hill with views north over downtown 'boat and the Yampa Valley out one window and views up to the ski mountain out the other side. It's a very old condo, which is probably why it commands such prime real estate.
We drove up the valley east of Steamboat, where we've never been before, up into Routt National Forest to the continental divide, and hiked about 20 minutes in to a small lake named Lake Dinosaur. We fished (no luck) and climbed rocks, and had a lovely time. The whole drive was up a rocky jeep road and the 16 miles took about 75 minutes at such low speeds. We didn't expect quite such a long drive. The aspen were GORGEOUS, beautiful yellow and some orange and red, and the sky was such a brilliant deep blue that you wouldn't believe it if you didn't live here. The whole drive from Denver to Steamboat was beautiful with all the aspen turning. The weather was unbelievable, not a cloud in the sky, and 40s at night, 70s in the day. More discussion of moving to Steamboat someday... We say that every time we go. I still don't think I could handle the winter. D says he could. I know the kids could. On the way back down from the divide after our hike to Lake Dinosaur, we passed the most beautiful campsite on earth, on a point overlooking the entire valley that sweeps down from the divide into the Yampa Valley, with the beautiful yellow aspen sweeping down below. It was breathtaking. Wrote it down for future fall camping some year to come.
M was entranced with her echo at Dinosaur Lake and spent much of the time yelling as loud as she could. I started to explain how the sound waves bounce off the rocks and trees creating the echo, and she told me "I already know that, I learned it on Curious George!" She loved climbing the rocks high over the lake, throwing rocks into the lake, and reeling in her fishing rod.
Went to Steamboat for a couple of nights this past weekend, our neighbors offered their condo up to us. Oh my gosh, they are in a prime spot on top of a hill with views north over downtown 'boat and the Yampa Valley out one window and views up to the ski mountain out the other side. It's a very old condo, which is probably why it commands such prime real estate.
We drove up the valley east of Steamboat, where we've never been before, up into Routt National Forest to the continental divide, and hiked about 20 minutes in to a small lake named Lake Dinosaur. We fished (no luck) and climbed rocks, and had a lovely time. The whole drive was up a rocky jeep road and the 16 miles took about 75 minutes at such low speeds. We didn't expect quite such a long drive. The aspen were GORGEOUS, beautiful yellow and some orange and red, and the sky was such a brilliant deep blue that you wouldn't believe it if you didn't live here. The whole drive from Denver to Steamboat was beautiful with all the aspen turning. The weather was unbelievable, not a cloud in the sky, and 40s at night, 70s in the day. More discussion of moving to Steamboat someday... We say that every time we go. I still don't think I could handle the winter. D says he could. I know the kids could. On the way back down from the divide after our hike to Lake Dinosaur, we passed the most beautiful campsite on earth, on a point overlooking the entire valley that sweeps down from the divide into the Yampa Valley, with the beautiful yellow aspen sweeping down below. It was breathtaking. Wrote it down for future fall camping some year to come.
M was entranced with her echo at Dinosaur Lake and spent much of the time yelling as loud as she could. I started to explain how the sound waves bounce off the rocks and trees creating the echo, and she told me "I already know that, I learned it on Curious George!" She loved climbing the rocks high over the lake, throwing rocks into the lake, and reeling in her fishing rod.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
new tooth!
G's first permanent tooth is poking up! D and G discovered it two days ago and thought it was an ulcer... We realized it was a tooth yesterday morning. Baby tooth isn't loose yet, but dentist said give it a week or two and it should loosen up and come out within the next few weeks. G has been bummed that a few of his friends have lost teeth and he hasn't, so now he's got his own new tooth!
Had three 5yo boys and three 3 yo girls at our house Saturday (all brother-sister pairs), and we walked to the playground three blocks away. M kept up with the 5yo boys, carrying a football in her arms the whole time, and the other two girls were half a block behind carrying the baby doll and its diaper bag. It made me laugh because she's such a tomboy, and I always thought she was not too energetic, and realized Saturday it's because I always compare her energy to her brother's, and he doesn't ever run out of energy.
Last night we were with another set of three 5yos and three 3yos, and M was trying to play hockey in the garage with the 5yos. She got very upset that they wouldn't let her play. Well, they would, but she couldn't keep up with them and was never able to get the ball, and it upset her. I've noticed more and more over the last few months that she definitely prefers the organized play of G and his friends, and seems to really gravitate toward the older kids. The ones her age, including herself, are incapable of organizing their play together yet. So she gravitates toward the organized play of the older kids. But they don't acknowledge her very well, and they don't listen to her or share with her well, so it leads to a lot of frustration on her part.
Had three 5yo boys and three 3 yo girls at our house Saturday (all brother-sister pairs), and we walked to the playground three blocks away. M kept up with the 5yo boys, carrying a football in her arms the whole time, and the other two girls were half a block behind carrying the baby doll and its diaper bag. It made me laugh because she's such a tomboy, and I always thought she was not too energetic, and realized Saturday it's because I always compare her energy to her brother's, and he doesn't ever run out of energy.
Last night we were with another set of three 5yos and three 3yos, and M was trying to play hockey in the garage with the 5yos. She got very upset that they wouldn't let her play. Well, they would, but she couldn't keep up with them and was never able to get the ball, and it upset her. I've noticed more and more over the last few months that she definitely prefers the organized play of G and his friends, and seems to really gravitate toward the older kids. The ones her age, including herself, are incapable of organizing their play together yet. So she gravitates toward the organized play of the older kids. But they don't acknowledge her very well, and they don't listen to her or share with her well, so it leads to a lot of frustration on her part.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Transition
M seems to be enjoying her three days alone with Daddy and without her older brother so far. G thinks school was fun and enjoys it, but is having a really tough time with the transition. He was at preschool for three half-days a week, and now he's in kindergarten - at a new school, new teacher, new kids, new rules - for five full days a week. It's a long day. He has asked multiple times now if we can please change him from full day to half day.
Mild anger showed up Thursday and Friday nights (first two days of school), a bit over the weekend, and hit a high tonight. He was drawing himself a new chore chart and asked me what the next letter is in the word Sunday. I asked him too many questions - starting with "where are you in the word?" - and he yelled at me that I wasn't answering his simple question. When I told him the "U" comes next to make the "u" sound in "Sunday," he yelled at me again for some reason I couldn't understand. D came in and asked another question and he looked at both of us and yelled "How long to I have to explain this to you?! Is it going to take 110 minutes, or 1 second?!" D and I both started laughing, which did not make him happy.
By the time we went up to take a bath, he had a complete melt down and started crying and yelling. He was mad that M and D went to Costco without him and got to try the samples, and he was mad about something else that they did together without him. "I miss out on all the fun things that Daddy and M do while I'm in school!" I went in the bedroom and sat down with him and just let him cry in my lap.
He wants us to change him to half-day, which is really D's decision since he's the one that will be home with him, and I have no idea if the school would let us go to half-day or not (or rather, would they let us go half-day without continuing to charge us tuition for the full day - Denver Public Schools only provides free half-day kindergarten; full-day costs us $310 a month). We wouldn't change him for the first six weeks, he obviously needs more than three days to transition, but if it's still a problem after that time, maybe half-day is the way to go. We chose full-day for a variety of reasons I won't go into here, but some of those reasons are no longer valid because he's changed so much in the six months since we applied.
Regardless, it's a tough transition to a new school, new teacher, new friends, new schedule. M is going to have an easier time because she knows her preschool teacher - who taught G for the past two years - and has friends going into preschool with her from the parents day out program at the same church. However, Ms. Mesa called us today to let us know that Oreo, the beloved preschool class guinea pig, died over the weekend. M loves Oreo, and Ms. Mesa was so sweet to call and let us know so we could tell M about it before school starts. We particularly appreciate that because we're finding that public school kindergarten is like a big black hole - we're not allowed in the classroom at drop-off or pick-up, and they have not published any kind of schedule for the day or what days they receive which "specials" like art, music, PE, etc. All we know is what G tells us, and he is not very forthcoming!
M got herself a bright blue Buzz Lightyear hat at Target on Saturday, and wears it constantly. The only times it comes off her head is at the dining table (and she made D take his off tonight "Dad, no hats at the table!") and for sleep. She did manage to pick out an outfit that is meant for girls - it's for fall, and the pants are brown with squirrels, owls, and acorns on them, and the shirt is blue (her fav color) with a big brown squirrel on it. She also picked out a hot pink shirt that has the alphabet in sparkle colors on it, and green polka dot pants. G and I asked her multiple times if she really wanted the alphabet shirt, because she has always deemed anything pink and sparkly as "girly," and she will not wear girly clothes. She told me that yes, she wanted it because of the alphabet letters, even though it's pink. We'll see if she really wears it or if it goes in the returns basket!
Mild anger showed up Thursday and Friday nights (first two days of school), a bit over the weekend, and hit a high tonight. He was drawing himself a new chore chart and asked me what the next letter is in the word Sunday. I asked him too many questions - starting with "where are you in the word?" - and he yelled at me that I wasn't answering his simple question. When I told him the "U" comes next to make the "u" sound in "Sunday," he yelled at me again for some reason I couldn't understand. D came in and asked another question and he looked at both of us and yelled "How long to I have to explain this to you?! Is it going to take 110 minutes, or 1 second?!" D and I both started laughing, which did not make him happy.
By the time we went up to take a bath, he had a complete melt down and started crying and yelling. He was mad that M and D went to Costco without him and got to try the samples, and he was mad about something else that they did together without him. "I miss out on all the fun things that Daddy and M do while I'm in school!" I went in the bedroom and sat down with him and just let him cry in my lap.
He wants us to change him to half-day, which is really D's decision since he's the one that will be home with him, and I have no idea if the school would let us go to half-day or not (or rather, would they let us go half-day without continuing to charge us tuition for the full day - Denver Public Schools only provides free half-day kindergarten; full-day costs us $310 a month). We wouldn't change him for the first six weeks, he obviously needs more than three days to transition, but if it's still a problem after that time, maybe half-day is the way to go. We chose full-day for a variety of reasons I won't go into here, but some of those reasons are no longer valid because he's changed so much in the six months since we applied.
Regardless, it's a tough transition to a new school, new teacher, new friends, new schedule. M is going to have an easier time because she knows her preschool teacher - who taught G for the past two years - and has friends going into preschool with her from the parents day out program at the same church. However, Ms. Mesa called us today to let us know that Oreo, the beloved preschool class guinea pig, died over the weekend. M loves Oreo, and Ms. Mesa was so sweet to call and let us know so we could tell M about it before school starts. We particularly appreciate that because we're finding that public school kindergarten is like a big black hole - we're not allowed in the classroom at drop-off or pick-up, and they have not published any kind of schedule for the day or what days they receive which "specials" like art, music, PE, etc. All we know is what G tells us, and he is not very forthcoming!
M got herself a bright blue Buzz Lightyear hat at Target on Saturday, and wears it constantly. The only times it comes off her head is at the dining table (and she made D take his off tonight "Dad, no hats at the table!") and for sleep. She did manage to pick out an outfit that is meant for girls - it's for fall, and the pants are brown with squirrels, owls, and acorns on them, and the shirt is blue (her fav color) with a big brown squirrel on it. She also picked out a hot pink shirt that has the alphabet in sparkle colors on it, and green polka dot pants. G and I asked her multiple times if she really wanted the alphabet shirt, because she has always deemed anything pink and sparkly as "girly," and she will not wear girly clothes. She told me that yes, she wanted it because of the alphabet letters, even though it's pink. We'll see if she really wears it or if it goes in the returns basket!
Thursday, August 19, 2010
First Day of Kindergarten
Today was G's first day of kindergarten. Of course I didn't even think to bring a camera, but one of our neighbors snapped a shot of him (clinging to my leg), so hopefully I'll have it to post sometime soon. He was nervous ("not scared, just nervous" he said), but was relieved yesterday to find out that two of his acquaintances are in his class. One is a neighbor girl, the other is a boy from his preschool who was in a different class. When I left, I poked my head in to say goodbye, and the two of them (the boys) were sitting together on the floor. Boy, there were a lot of crying kids there! G is not a cryer in these types of situations, and he was more nervous about things like "if my shoes come untied and I have trouble tying them, what will I do?" than anything else.
They have the new teacher, she is fresh out of school and this is her first year teaching. She looks very young and was wearing flip flops, shorts, and a tank top today. Hopefully her newness will translate into lots of energy and enthusiasm rather than lack of experience! I would be more weepy about my oldest going to kindergarten, but am too preoccupied about whether this school is going to work out or not. I'm anxious about talking to the teacher about his math - will we be able to create a plan that works for him - and somewhat more anxious given her lack of experience and newness to the school. On the plus side, the principal has a background in GT learning, so that will help, once we have the conversation.
He was cute this morning, very on task because he did not want to be late for his first day of school. He wet down the top of his hair so it wouldn't stick up and was frustrated that hairs were still sticking up. I told him it looked good the way it was. "But Joey's hair didn't stick up yesterday!" (That's the other little boy he knows in his class.) I can't wait to hear the download of how the day went later today.
M starts preschool in a few more weeks, and that will be fun to post about too.
They have the new teacher, she is fresh out of school and this is her first year teaching. She looks very young and was wearing flip flops, shorts, and a tank top today. Hopefully her newness will translate into lots of energy and enthusiasm rather than lack of experience! I would be more weepy about my oldest going to kindergarten, but am too preoccupied about whether this school is going to work out or not. I'm anxious about talking to the teacher about his math - will we be able to create a plan that works for him - and somewhat more anxious given her lack of experience and newness to the school. On the plus side, the principal has a background in GT learning, so that will help, once we have the conversation.
He was cute this morning, very on task because he did not want to be late for his first day of school. He wet down the top of his hair so it wouldn't stick up and was frustrated that hairs were still sticking up. I told him it looked good the way it was. "But Joey's hair didn't stick up yesterday!" (That's the other little boy he knows in his class.) I can't wait to hear the download of how the day went later today.
M starts preschool in a few more weeks, and that will be fun to post about too.
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