Carly woke him up around 6:45. She headed to work and he watched StoryBots (about candy) and had banana bread. When I went over later I noticed he hadn’t eaten his oatmeal and I asked why. It has happened: “I’m tired of oatmeal.” We got going right at 7:30, but by the gate he found a big black beetle. He got a hummus container from the Zinnie house and dumped out what was in it, and put the beetle in. We included a small branch and leaves so it could right itself. I asked if he wanted to leave it here, but he said he wanted to take it to school. He thought that Simone would like it.
More discussion of cars on the way to school, and he sang a “mini van” song and carried the beetle most of the way. We walked down to the classroom at the same time as the bus kids, and August showed Simone the beetle. Down in the classroom, everyone wanted to see it. He told someone he thought it was a dung beetle, and debated with Marion if it was the same kind of beetle that she sees across in the fields (August thought they were smaller).
I stopped by the second hand sale that GAIA or another club is running and ended up getting three things for August. I went and put them in Carly’s mailbox for later. I biked home, worked, then rode back to get him. I dropped a headphone adapter off to Carly quickly, then went to his classroom. They were starting a meeting, and he was using a little sponge to clean up the water, he said. I found out later what had happened: Eve had opened her water bottle and it spilled “everywhere”, including light splashes on his papers for the day.
August had one big incident, where he hit Simone when he wouldn’t share his snack with the bug, and it escalated from there, and a smaller incident. He had done well in literacy group.
We went to pick up the clothes from Carly’s box, then August let me look again and we got four more things. We walked home, discussing vehicles as usual.
At home we fed the butterfly sugar water, then I placed an iHerb order. August was going to go play by himself, but we heard an unusual beeping noise from something for a second and he said he was scared so he climbed up on me the whole time.
For lunch he had crackers with cheese and meat, and a whole banana. He asked, “Why’s it called an airport?” We discussed the names of ‘airport’ and ‘airplane’. He then did alone time. He played with the jumping robot thing (after we changed the battery), then with the circuit set. He needed some help fixing the circuit set, then played on his own a bit more.
He the red timer to tell him how long until we needed to head to school. He seemed eager to go play with Eve, so was a little impatient, but handled it well, trying to find something for himself to do. He remembered he had more watching time, so watched one Max and Ruby.
We drove to school and walked down. Simone told him that Candy had squished the beetle. August had given the beetle to Simone earlier, and when I had picked him up had wanted to get it back. I had convinced him to let Simone keep it, and we’d go find something as good. The plan had been to go across to the field, but by the guards’ room he found a spider that we captured and he said was even better. Along the way he found a tiny beetle thing and put it in with the spider.
We went in the classroom and Eve was drawing on the whiteboard. August went and asked for a marker and joined her. Candy was standing next to him, and he drew a big picture of her. It was the first time I’ve seen him draw a picture of someone.
Heather showed up, and I took Eve and Zoe out on the playground. The three of the started on the swing for several minutes. Eve and Zoe continued on to the kitchen area, and August stayed on the swing by himself, with a string with a piece of cardboard on the end tied to the swing and dragging on the ground.
August headed over to the kitchen area and helped Zoe and Eve with their restaurant. The little Korean boy from PKC was also their, although his mom wasn’t around, and Zoe and I held up the cover of the sand area several times so they could all get toys out of it. August helped Zoe clean up the restaurant. I was able to do some reading.
Zoe then started a new thing, as she climbed over the fence into the greenhouse area. Eve went over with her, but needed me to lift her out. While August, Eve, and the boy climbed on the fence, Zoe found a small kickball and asked me to play ball with her. I did that until she was distracted by the scooters. August had Eve get some random sticks from the other side of the fence, then he added them to the rather rickety structure Marion and the kids had made in the garden, as a sort of sculpture.
They all ran over to the big playground and I was able to sit and read again. They started by playing on the monkey bars part. August was doing something new where he sort of jumped from the platform to hang on a bar. They then ran over to the swings. Grace and Lillian were there, babysitting another preschooler. To Grace he said, “Hi, nubby girl.” He then watcher Grace and Lillian and the kid they were babysitting and Eve and Zoe play a circle game, although he didn’t join in.
Heather came and picked up the girls, and we headed to Carly’s room. He greeted her well, but then was trying to get to her ‘treats’ drawer and was frustrated. So he and I took off and drove home and she walked a bit later.
He had the idea to make a bird house, so we went out and looked at our wood options. We brought a lot of wood in, and we discussed our plan for a bird house. I started sawing one piece, but it was very hard, so I called it a day. He wasn’t happy with me about that.
A bit later he said, “Just FYI, I didn’t wash my hands.” He picked up ‘FYI’ from me. For dinner he had half a cucumber, noodles, then a small bowl of oatmeal. He then joked around, “FYI, I don’t have on my FYI, so if you want to FYI…”
We took out compost, and we talked about the flies and I talked about it being ‘enclosed’. He asked, “What’s ‘enclosed’ mean?” A word of the day. He yelled “Compostobomposter” as he ran to Carly. He discussed what can and can’t go in the compost and cheese and milk. He said something about a ‘compound’, then asked, “What’s compound mean?” Then, he refilled his water bottle by pouring water out of Carly’s water bottle into his. She said that was some “quality” water. He asked, “what’s quality mean?”
She took him up for a bath, then I went up and read to him. We discussed peregrine falcons: “I know you told me crows drop things to open them, and monkeys use sticks, but only humans make electronics…”
Carly came up to try to get him to sleep earlier since the clocks move forward an hour tonight. I left them at 7:45. Took awhile to get him to sleep, but it was at least a bit earlier than usual.
Minivan song:
Drawing a picture of Candy:
Eve reporting on the swing with August and Zoe:
August on the swing:
Garden structure and running to the other playground:
Song on the couch:
FYI:
