He was up at 6:15. He cuddled with Carly and ate oatmeal and watched something. As we got going he played with the front door keys, jingling them over his balance bike and casting a spell. We got walking at 7:33. He released the caterpillar up by the park. The other kids had just gotten there when we arrived, but I was able to talk to Marion and show her the chart we had made last night. We’d forgotten to deliver the hummus first, so I did that and headed home on my bike.
I rode back at noon. They were in the classroom this time, and as I came in I heard Andrea complimenting him on complimenting something that Leonard had built. They had celebrated Leonard’s birthday today. Marion added a few more things to his chart, and was very excited for the day. Of the chart we made she said, “this is gold.” He had used curling up like a clam to calm down a couple times, at least. He’d also been very busy with bugs today, reporting his findings to people, and then asking questions about and hunting for rolly pollies, worms, and beetles. Marion drew a picture of a root beer float and said he definitely deserved it today, and he asked to give him a hug. Ms. Vicky came by and gave him a hug as well.
As we got going, he told me, “I learned something from Ms. Marion…” He said that a cracked egg will bake in the sun. As we were walking, he asked, “How’s a car motor stay on without turning the wheels?” That led to a lot of discussion of motors and gears and clutches.
We got home before 1. We made our root beer floats. He hummed “I Know an Old Woman” and said he remembered it from dance class. He then made his “Rocket Man” yummy noises as he had the root beer float. He concluded the root beer wasn’t sweet enough, so he let me finish that, but be enjoyed the ice cream.
We had some lunch, then got headed back to school at 2, taking the car. We met Carly by the preschool, then joined the big circle for the welcoming project preschool event. August was a bit hyper to start with. They did songs at first. His class listened to/sang a song called “I am the Earth”. Of the songs August complained, “This has nothing to do with tiles.”
But then it was time. PKA went over to the covered portion by the kindergarten. They had their rough drafts they had done on paper, and now had paint to paint on a tile, which would then be glazed. He was very intent on painting it. He said he wasn’t following his plan, but it was based on it. We then had black paint to paint his welcoming word over the background. He initially wanted like a whole sentence. He shortened it to ‘Welcome preschool’. He got the okay from Andrea to do that, and I’m the one that got to paint on all the letters.
Carly had to head back to class to let Alex, who had been covering her class, go and pack up. Everyone else headed out, and we were the only ones left on the playground. Really weird that no one else stayed to play on the playground. August randomly asked, “What’s Shakespeare?” I feel he’s heard the name somewhere, but he couldn’t tell me where. We played around for awhile. He asked, “Are north east south west different than up down left right? Why?” He wandered over to his classroom and gave Marion and Andrea some advice on the classroom as they were deciding what to do for next week. He remembered that there was supposed to be cake and snacks at the welcoming project. Marion told him that the group nearest it had eaten it all. He was upset by this, and still grumpy when Carly showed up a little later.
We drove home. He was outside with Carly for a bit, then I headed upstairs to do some work. They read Captain Underpants. Carly was making sushi when I came down. He was saying that he remembered the reporter in the Captain Underpants book from the previous book they’d read. While he was eating sushi he spit one out and said something mean about it. Carly went upstairs for a break. He finally went up and apologized to her.
He came down and worked on his soup. When he went to the bathroom he had fun peeing on a piece of toilet paper again. While finishing his soup he tried got get the oatmeal out, but dropped it. He helped clean up, then played with the drill.
I had found a Learn Engineering videos bout how a manual transmission works and we watched that:
And then one about how cell phones work:
He had put a toothpick in the drill and was spinning it, but then roughly set it down on me, toothpick first. Carly took him up for a timeout when he wouldn’t clean up and was acting out. He was upset that I wasn’t happy about getting poked. She gave him bath. He came down and had some toast and we read Hilo 3.
I took him up for bed. We did a slug visualization. He asked asked why Carly had taught her students a song about a drill that drills down into the Earth last semester. No idea what he was talking about. I’ll have to ask her. He was asleep by 9:15.
Key music to our alarm:
His electric transmission:
Root beer float:
Light and sound 2:
Painting his welcoming project tile:
Sliding down the stairs on his knees:
Drilling in plastic:
Light and sound 1:
