We were quick this morning: I tried getting him up starting at 7:15 but he didn’t get up until 7:30. We went downstairs and he looked at his iPad for just a minute before needing to use the bathroom. We got ready to go and were walking by 7:48. As we got walking he asked about the tire he had found yesterday. It was a tire that had come off a garbage can. We had returned it across the street to where we saw a garbage can missing its wheel, and we spotted it where we’d left it.
On the walk to school he said he had the radio on so I sang songs most of the way to school: A Ah Apple, ZYX, counting by 2s, etc. As we walked into the school I was asking him about who he might want to play with. He told me “I don’t need any friends.” We got to his class just after 8:05. They were still outside.
I walked home and worked on editing the Sabeel book and did some cleaning. I walked back to the school for library time. I stopped to fill my water bottle and I spotted a guy walking out of the school and he waved at me. It took me a moment to figure out who it was: the younger guy that works at VIPizza. He may have just been delivering pizzas, but he was inside the campus and I would think they’d only be allowed to the gate. So I’ll have to ask him next time we go there.
Went and helped the class get ready for library time at 2:10 and we walked up. Ilana read them two Maurice Sendak books: Where the Wild Things Are and Pierre. He sat on the other side of the rug from me today. For checkout time he chose Preschool to the Rescue again. He had checked it out once last year.
Back at the classroom he showed me is art he had made today. He said it was a forest, but changed his mind and said it was just nature stuff. they had used leaves and needles and sticks and glued them on paper. He also showed me the pirate person he had made on Friday, in the pirate ship. And he told me about maker space: “I did maker space. I made-ed a really hard circuit. It lit up a light. I had the idea to turn off the lights to see it.”
Out on the bench I remembered how he’d wanted to talk to his teachers about breaking the iPad stand. We went in and asked, and neither of them knew about the incident he was concerned about. He showed them the iPad stand he was worried about and Andrea assured him there was a part on it that comes off easy but that it was back on and not broken. Later, Carly and I asked him how he felt about it now and he felt much better.
Andrea told me he had done something with the overhead projector today and played a tangrams app in Maker Space. On the bench August told me you had actual pieces when you did it and we figured out this was what he had done: https://www.playosmo.com/en/tangram/
I got us going so we could head home to finish our furniture building, but he wanted to sit and play games, so we sat by the guardhouse. We were playing a preschool game where he had a science lab under the slide. He took the preschool class into an eyeball. He then needed to use the bathroom and we went to the one in the library. In the bathroom he found out we were walking home and he instantly got really upset and started yelling.
As we slowly walked through the school, him not much calmer, we saw both Rebecca and Sherry and talked to them. He wasn’t willing to walk home yet and was convinced that Carly would walk home and get the car and come and get him. We went to her classroom and talked to her, then sat on the beanbags and read Hilo 3 to chapter 8.
We all walked home, and got here at 5. On the couch he directed Carly to sit to one side of him and me the other: “I like sitting in the middle next to both of you.” He had some dinner, then Carly was trying to get him to sit with her to read his library book. Suddenly, he said, “I almost forgot! The chair!” I asked, “You want to do that now?” “Totally!”
We went up and he helped me finish the chair. As I ironed the covers and put them on the cushions he played a game where he was a cat that ended up as a classroom pet. He slept on the cushions. When the chair and shelves were all set up, temporarily in the Zinnie room, he wanted to use his iPad in the chair. He used the Maps apps and was finding interesting places. He explained that “There’s a reason I’m marking places…” It was so that we could go to these places in the future. He found amusement parks, including one up near Vancouver, B.C. that I said might actually be possible sometime.
I got his bath ready and Carly gave him a bath. She was asking him questions about playing with kids and he gave thumbs sideways to playing with Bar or Omri. Said he would play with Eve or Hector if he played with anyone at school. He told us “I don’t really want friends…I have a friend in my a tummy…a robot…Uncle Trout…I have barbecuing to do!” Those are references to Hilo and the robot uncle he builds.
I read Preschool to the Rescue, then he ate apples and Cheerios and played with the sounds you can make with the Eric Carle book we have of animal stories. We were making rhythms. Carly came back to go to sleep with him. I told him I would sleep on the bed if there was room. “But I took around a lot! I could be there, or there, or in the middle…” I left them at 8:35. But he wasn’t falling asleep, so I went up after 9 and sang to him for awhile, then lay with him until Carly came back and I left gain at 9:35. I got a text message a few minutes later saying the word of the day was ‘unconditional’, likely referring to love, which was good as I’d totally forgotten about a word of the day. think he was asleep a bit after that.
Having the preschool class visit an eyeball:
Rolling to Mama’s classroom time lapse:
Answering questions with the classroom signs:
Putting together the chair:
Morning Cousin It hair
Library time across from me
Book to check out
Pirate he made Friday
Forest art
Explaining the game
Playing his iPad in the new chair
Playing in the sink
