I started trying to wake him up at 7:10 today. Not much luck, so I carried him down at 7:20. He watched a Pink Panther and we got ready to go. We were walking at 7:42. he told me jokes as we walked: “Why was the horse eating a balloon?…Because it’s popable.” “Knock Knock…Elephant squid…Chomp!” An easy drop off as they were already meeting. Andrea got August and I left at left 8:08
At home I moved the furniture: the Zinnie bed back to the Zinnie room, and the shelves and chair to the office. Also hung up some art and moved the desk to face differently in the corner. Then I did a lot of book editing.
Came back to school at 3 and sat and studied Hebrew while August had dance. He had creative movement earlier in the day, and they celebrated Hector’s birthday. So all he had had for snack was some cake. And he only ate the bar from his lunch. He seemed surprised when there was quesadilla in there, even though that was what he had requested. I don’t think he had opened his actual lunch. He told me he didn’t dress up for dance class. He later said it was an optional thing, and Taya’s idea from last week. Andrea and Marion told me they had an interesting moment where he went over to the building area and did some parallel play with other kids. There was some silent interaction with other kids for pieces, etc. but he was clearly watching what they were building and building on his own. Marion said that she had him reading a simple book to her and he could read it all. She planted the idea that he could read it to the class sometime. He said no to that idea, but was fine reading to her. I think they are doing the assessment for deciding the reading groups.
We were sitting on the bench, eating, and Marion was taking care of all the plants. Amelia was talking to her, and August went over and talked to both of them about the plants. He told Amelia that one of the pots was a pinch pot, and that he had made a pinch pot. Marion mentioned something about needing to check in on those. He also talked to Marion about halloween costumes, telling her he’s going to be an oxygen molecule. She said she’s going to be a dog with, I think, Anna and Vicky. Marion spotted a gecko and called him over to see it. She thought it was one they had seen earlier without a tail, and now it was regrowing. He asked her if gecko change color, and she told him he was talking about chameleons. Also, she now has two pots that look like sheep outside the door. She told August he could name them and he chose Balkin and Bark. Finally, he found a googley eye on the ground and ran in to put it with the supply of googley eyes in the art room.
Carly showed up and I walked them to the car. As I got him in the car he declared ‘obviously’ the word of the day. I left them and walked home. They headed to the mall to get material for his oxygen molecule costume. I left them at 4:53, and they were home at 5:30.
He watched the simple machines episode of Magic School Bus, then watched a single Max and Ruby story. He ate soup for dinner and said, “My favorite flavor of Pop Smart us strawberry.” That’s a Plants Versus Zombies reference. He told me the book he read to Marion was about “Egg…it was about four eggs.” And he again talked about Andrea’s questions: “Why does Ms. Andrea ask so many questions?…Learning questions.”
He requested that I give him his bath. Carly took him up and let him play with the spray bottle. I came up. He went in and saw the chair in its new spot and said, “I love this chair so much!” He declared he wanted us to read there after his bath.
I gave him a bath and he sang a song that went “Speak in different languages…konichiwa, buenos dias…” He said it’s the hello song for the creative movement class. He then made up a “We speak in different languages” song that he wanted me to record him singing.
After his bath we played the preschool game in chair then went back in to the bed. We talked about how Maaian was going on maternity leave soon and that Korea Megan was having a baby right now (c-section) back in the U.S. August said he hoped Maaian would bring the baby to school.
We finished Hilo 3, the read that Monster Book of Dimensions book in Skybrary. He said good night to Carly and I sang some songs. I then told an August and Teegan story where she first meets August – he supplied a lot of the ideas. More singing, then he was really requesting Carly. I switched with her at 9:10. Carly got him to sleep by 9:30. She said he doesn’t think he’s the worst student now. So that’s progress. But he says Leonard is the worst student now, as he sees him breaking a lot of rules. When August is supposed to be sleeping but wants to talk instead, Carly says she’s going to leave the room—unless he talks about preschool. An impressively sneaky way to get him to talk more about school.
Forgetting the song:
We speak in different languages song:
Jellybean from the new mall candy:
Waking
Office transformed
Discussing the plants
Gecko
