I woke him up about 7:15. He watched a YouTube video on how car batteries are recycled a couple times. We ate cornbread and apples for breakfast and got going. Walking about 7:40. I said we were golden as I reviewed if we had everything. He asked what that meant and declared ‘golden’ the word of the day. He then joked that “polluting is golden” because he claims to like polluting. We also discussed ‘optics’ some more on the walk to school as he asked how binoculars work. We had had a similar discussing yesterday for the day before.
At school we walked over to the middle school office area and dropped off hummus for the Gaia Jr. club. They collect food for a family in need. He handed it to Grace and another student gave him a sticker, which he put on me.
Down at the preschool we reviewed the schedule with Andrea. Music today, with Mini as Myriam is gone. No mention of a nature walk, although August was ready with his brown shirt in case there was. He was getting upset, saying there should only be 4 things before lunch, not 5. I talked about how the number of things doesn’t matter, and gave examples of eating snack for 4 hours if that was only one thing, and doing things for only 5 seconds at a time if there were a thousand things. I was making him laugh with this but there were still some tears as I handed him to Andrea.
He came running out at 3. He needed to use the bathroom so we went back inside. He spotted that there was one piece of cake left from tea party and asked Andrea if he could have it. she said it was for a visitor after school. He was disappointed and I picked him up. We were talking to Andrea, and he took my hat and tossed it at her. He also asked her for the recipe.
He had had a great day. Raising his hand and participating, doing challenges with chairs outside, and helping with the big birthday board that Andrea was making, doing a lot of cutting. Out on the bench he would talking about using scissors to cut out things for it: “They letted me do people and the months…Not just hanging around like before. They’re keeping me busy like I’m helping them.” And later he would tell me they had a fire and earthquake drill and had sat out on the grass by the playground. They had also had music with Mini. I asked if there had been instruments involved and he said he just did a lot of singing.
Carly arrived as he was doing Cheerio sculptures, putting Cheerios on the plants next to the PKB bench. He knocked the container of Cheerios over and they all went on the ground Nd we had to pick them up. Then we saw Marion outside. August went to ask her about the cake and she let him have the last piece. She joked that he shouldn’t tell Andrea, so he climbed in a cubby and ate the rest of it. He then asked for the recipe:
Half cup yogurt
Cup of sugar
Cup flour
3 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 cup oil
180 c for 30 to 35 minutes
He found a stick and was using it to touch dirty things. Carly said something and he told her, “I love your silliness.” As we left the school he was hitting things with it to make sound and it broke. He wasn’t happy about that, and I told him we had more sticks at home. On the walk we talked about the afterschool classes. He had shown interest in Hebrew, but now was less excited by it: “I said I MIGHT want to…’ But instead he was really excited about doing dance with Ms. Amelia, as long as it was just one day a week. I looked at home and it is on Wednesdays. I had planned on Wednesday for our skipping school days, when we get to 5-day weeks, so will have to come up with another plan for that. But it is really cool that he’s excited about the dance class.
On the walk home he talked about taking more photos in burst mode, which he’d been doing hundreds of yesterday. I told him that wasn’t what it was for and he needed to not take photos that way. He explained, “What happened was I discovered it and my brain said ‘This would be a good way to take pictures.’” We spent the last few minutes discussing the speed of light and other things.
We were home at 4:10. He had us play a game where he was 3000db loud. We then went outside to the string on the swing and his metal thing. He and I then went across the street to look at the cactus area and touch them with a stick. I think we counted 8 or 9 different kids of succulents. He also used his stick to touch things in the garbage area.
Back in the house he and I played with Cubetto. He set up challenges for me.
He had some dinner and played math apps on the couch. Carly took him up for a bath. I heard him talking: “They needed a good cutter…Im a really good cutter. I cutted like 23 strips of paper.” “I’m a student that helps the teachers…not anything else, except anthropologist.”
He did really well with washing his hair, then she trimmed his hair. He got a butterscotch lollipop – the first time he’s had butterscotch and he really liked it.
We read some of Magic Tree House #29. We called Carly ‘uncouth’ again and I declared that another word of the day. August asked why he could see through his hand as he looked up at the light. We all experimented with the hand/eyes thing.
Carly took him up to brush his teeth. I came up to say goodnight and left at 8:50. They were going to read Will I have a Friend? and then go to sleep.
Silly on the bench:
Making a Cheerios sculpture:
Using a stick to touch gross and far things:
Making a noise with his stick and breaking it:
Pulling the swing:
Hitting the lamp post to make sound:
Zombie August
Sticker on my shirt
Making his Cheerio sculpture
Hiding from Andrea as he eats cake
Touching with his stick
Touching a cactus
All the plants
Cubetto
