I know it is not snowing here in Florida :) but this past week has been really cold here...cold for us. It was cold enough that I made Aidan wear a thermal outfit underneath his clothes plus his jacket. It wasn't until this morning when we are about to walk out the door that I realize his jacket is missing. He informs me that he left it in P.E. yesterday. I told him he has to tell his teacher to let him go & get his jacket, I also write her a note and told him to give it to her since it HAD to be found today...it is his ONLY jacket. Although it doesn't get super cold here normally in December (Monday morning when he goes to the bus stop it will be 23 degrees) I just am not prepared for winter yet. Aidan came home today with no jacket. I asked him where it was and he said his teacher said she'll get it. Excuse me? Either it is stolen or it is in the lost & found box, either way I need to know. The office tells me that I have to come down myself and look in the box for the jacket between school hours, 8-4pm not going to happen when Joe has our only car for work during this time period. This is why I sent the note!! Aidan should have been allowed to go to the lost & found box to look for his jacket, his teacher doesn't know what it looks like. Now he has to go to school again tomorrow with no jacket and tomorrow night I'll have to go buy him another one if it isn't found.
As I'm typing this I ask Aidan to bring me his blue folder so I can see what homework he has and he says it is not in his backpack. WTF?? Yet again mix up with the teacher not giving Aidan his folder or the right folder with his name on it.
I am very appreciative that Aidan's teacher is doing well with him. He's happy & I can see a huge improvement with his learning, with that being said... I really do not like his school as a whole. I can't call his teacher during school hours, she hasn't returned my email in 3 days, the administrator who answers all phone calls is also the B*TCH that laughed at us when they lost my son on his first day of school. Their website is not up to date and any important school information never seems to make it's way home either in a flyer, phone call, email, or website info. Next year I really am considering driving him 30 minutes to the Elementary school I went to. I grew up in a small town in the next county over and some of the teachers I had still are teaching there today. There is only so much incompetence that I can take from a school.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
A lot of space in between
I have been so busy since Halloween that there is a large gap in time here. We had Thanksgiving here at our house with all of my side of the family. Aidan specially requested Spiral Honey Ham and I was surprised that he ate Turkey, Ham, Mashed Potatoes & tried some corn. He still is the pickiest eater I have ever seen, even more then me at his age but I'm happy that he is slowly trying new foods. Before school let out for a whole week for the holiday Aidan made a vest & an Indian headband with feathers. He wore it on Thanksgiving day, it was so cute!
Over this past weekend we celebrated Aidan's 6th Birthday! My little man is growing up. He requested a bounce house over any other present & he played on it the second it was set up until nightfall.
He is doing very well with letters & sounds in school. Rhyming and numbers as well. We are working on characters in stories and predicting what might happen next. He seems to have a really hard time listening to a story he finds boring and remembering anything from it....I don't blame him but it is something we just have to get through.
Over this past weekend we celebrated Aidan's 6th Birthday! My little man is growing up. He requested a bounce house over any other present & he played on it the second it was set up until nightfall.
He is doing very well with letters & sounds in school. Rhyming and numbers as well. We are working on characters in stories and predicting what might happen next. He seems to have a really hard time listening to a story he finds boring and remembering anything from it....I don't blame him but it is something we just have to get through.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Halloween
Halloween was 2 days ago. I dislike that it was on a Sunday and Aidan had school the next day but it still went well. Aidan was Iron Man. Skylar also wanted to be Iron Man. Skylar at the last minute became very sick and with it being a little chilly here at night this past week, we decided no costume for her but warm pajamas and shoes & socks. She had a wet cough in her chest with a lot of head congestion :( (this is after I was also sick 3 days before for about 48 hours as well)
We were getting in the car, packing up the kids and the stroller to drive a few blocks away in our neighborhood to my sister in laws house to trick or treat with her kids when me and Joe felt really badly for Skylar. It wasn't as chilly as we thought it would be so we grabbed her pumpkin for candy, threw on a cute pink punk skirt, (over her ducky pajama bottoms) a skull necklace and a "play and destroy" T-shirt. she looked adorable. In the end it all worked out. It didn't get as chilly and she of course wanted to walk and trick or treat the entire time. We pushed the stroller the whole night for nothing :) I take that back, JOE pushed the stroller the whole night while I ran up to every door with her and listened to this cute sick voice saying trick or treat. At one house she asked the lady for a snickers bar for her daddy :) that was the best!
It's been awhile...
I work from home and the past few weeks have been crazy... I have lots to update and pictures to upload :) with coffee in hand, here I go.
First Aidan's field trip to the Green Meadows Farm, that is where we left off. There was confusion in the morning with my sister's truck not starting and she was chaperoning and they were an hour late getting to the school but they made the buses just in time! (charter buses too!) A neighbor drove them to the school so they could make it there in time. Lots of drama.
Aidan got to ride a pony, feed a goat, pet chickens and hold a baby ducky. Milk a cow, ride on a train/hay ride, & pick a pumpkin. All in all he said he had a great time. My sister says she will NEVER chaperone again :) success! She was only in charge of Aidan and one other little girl but because EVERY child was wearing the same tie-dye shirts :) she couldn't keep track of the kids. She said all of the other chaperones had to be on Valium because no one seemed to mind anything. She was frantic to keep a hold of her 2 kids and other parents would hand her more kids to do potty breaks and the kids would just run away and it was very funny listening to her tell me how crazy it was for her who will never ever do it again. :)
First Aidan's field trip to the Green Meadows Farm, that is where we left off. There was confusion in the morning with my sister's truck not starting and she was chaperoning and they were an hour late getting to the school but they made the buses just in time! (charter buses too!) A neighbor drove them to the school so they could make it there in time. Lots of drama.
Aidan got to ride a pony, feed a goat, pet chickens and hold a baby ducky. Milk a cow, ride on a train/hay ride, & pick a pumpkin. All in all he said he had a great time. My sister says she will NEVER chaperone again :) success! She was only in charge of Aidan and one other little girl but because EVERY child was wearing the same tie-dye shirts :) she couldn't keep track of the kids. She said all of the other chaperones had to be on Valium because no one seemed to mind anything. She was frantic to keep a hold of her 2 kids and other parents would hand her more kids to do potty breaks and the kids would just run away and it was very funny listening to her tell me how crazy it was for her who will never ever do it again. :)
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Tie Dye 101
Well I thought Aidan had missed his Tie Dying T-shirts for his field trip to Green Meadows Farm last Monday when he was out sick but turns out they did them on Wednesday right before their field trip. I still went out and purchased stuff to dye our own shirts and at least this way Skylar was able to join in to.
Skylar made a pink & purple shirt for her and Rachel's little sis Mackenzie who is also about Skylar's age. I think they turned out the best. ( I still have to upload those finished pics later for you)
Aidan did dark colors, red, blue, green & some purple. He went a little crazy and they were really saturated, but still cute. We didn't make no where near the mess I thought we would -for doing it in our play room in the house. I didn't even wear gloves. We used the Rit-dye liquid & powders. I'm glad I bought squirt bottles, I think that is the best and most fun method for dyeing.
Skylar made a pink & purple shirt for her and Rachel's little sis Mackenzie who is also about Skylar's age. I think they turned out the best. ( I still have to upload those finished pics later for you)
Aidan did dark colors, red, blue, green & some purple. He went a little crazy and they were really saturated, but still cute. We didn't make no where near the mess I thought we would -for doing it in our play room in the house. I didn't even wear gloves. We used the Rit-dye liquid & powders. I'm glad I bought squirt bottles, I think that is the best and most fun method for dyeing.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
And the sickies just keep coming...
Last Thursday Aidan came home from school and barely had touched his lunch, plus he didn't throw it away, he left it spilling into his lunchbox which is very strange for him not to just throw it away at school. He also had no given his blue folder to his teacher or his 2 library books. I emailed his teacher and asked her what went on at school and why didn't he turn in his stuff. She responded with she asked him twice at two separate times of the day to get his folder & put it in her mailbox and Aidan walked over to his backpack each time and then just walked away. Ok something is wrong. Well 2 hours after he got home from school I figured out what it was. He immediately spiked a fever of 102 and kept it for 48 hours. He was just out of it. He laid down on the couch and wouldn't eat or drink anything. I finally had to force cold sprite and Tea down his throat since he refused to take any medicine that might bring down the fever, needless to say he received 3 cool baths on Thursday to help. He slept in our bed all weekend and by Monday morning his fever had returned and was still throwing up. So now we have missed Friday and Monday of school again -which I HATE because he was doing so well and I hate to know what he missed at school. I'm sure tonight will be homework catch up night for sure!
His field trip is this Thursday so I hope he feels a lot better by then. I thought he missed out on Tie Dyeing shirts that they will be wearing on his field trip but his teacher emailed me yesterday and said they are doing them today. So I sent him to school today, phone is near me in case I have to go pick him up.
However I spent $20.00 is tie dying stuff yesterday at Walmart because I thought he did miss out on doing it at school. Now when he gets home today we are all going to do it together. We even got pink & purple so Skylar can do her own T-shirt! I spent over an hour Google-ing techniques :) I have never tie dyed anything before! So I will add pictures tomorrow of our mess
Also I have decided that for his Birthday (December 2nd) since all he wants is a party with a bounce house that he is getting one present from us. I've been looking into different things he wants but I've decided on this new Leap Frog Leapster Explorer. It seems to have a lot of learning features that he would really like. Plus I really would like him to have a hand held device that he can take in the car or in his own room and get off my computer. It has lots of learning games and tracing letters and a lOT more features including E-books, videos, even a camera attachment. What do you think? It is $69.00 which makes me gulp very hard on top of an already $80.00 Bounce house with party & food. However, if he gets it for his birthday, he can break it in and then get more games & accessories for Christmas which isn't much later.
(Maybe I'll just start a birthday fund :)
His field trip is this Thursday so I hope he feels a lot better by then. I thought he missed out on Tie Dyeing shirts that they will be wearing on his field trip but his teacher emailed me yesterday and said they are doing them today. So I sent him to school today, phone is near me in case I have to go pick him up.
However I spent $20.00 is tie dying stuff yesterday at Walmart because I thought he did miss out on doing it at school. Now when he gets home today we are all going to do it together. We even got pink & purple so Skylar can do her own T-shirt! I spent over an hour Google-ing techniques :) I have never tie dyed anything before! So I will add pictures tomorrow of our mess
Also I have decided that for his Birthday (December 2nd) since all he wants is a party with a bounce house that he is getting one present from us. I've been looking into different things he wants but I've decided on this new Leap Frog Leapster Explorer. It seems to have a lot of learning features that he would really like. Plus I really would like him to have a hand held device that he can take in the car or in his own room and get off my computer. It has lots of learning games and tracing letters and a lOT more features including E-books, videos, even a camera attachment. What do you think? It is $69.00 which makes me gulp very hard on top of an already $80.00 Bounce house with party & food. However, if he gets it for his birthday, he can break it in and then get more games & accessories for Christmas which isn't much later.
(Maybe I'll just start a birthday fund :)
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Bad Weather & Lockdowns
Here in the great state of daily thunderstorms and hurricanes we get some really good downpours in the afternoon. Do I own at least one umbrella for walking Aidan to the bus stop? I do...somewhere...in a closet...or was it in the car? Needless to say, I can't find a single umbrella! Bus stops are not fun in the rain. Mud puddles with clean white socks are not fun in the rain. (Maybe to Aidan)
Yesterday (Tuesday) It was time for Aidan's bus to be dropping off the kids when I receive a phone call from Aidan's teacher...The children are still at the school on lock down because of all of the lightning and flash flooding. I'm really glad she called. I could hear chaos in the background. The teacher put me on hold to calm down a little girl who was scared and her mommy was now coming to get her from the school instead of riding the bus home. I hear the word "Lock down" and I fear the worst... When they are crimes and police chases or anything of the sort, in the area of a public school, the schools are put on "lock downs" until the crisis is taken care of. I feel better knowing it's just the weather. I didn't like it when the teacher informed me that it is their policy for the bus drivers to also stop and if the weather is too bad, to bring the kids back to the school so the parents can pick them up there. Thankfully, the weather let up enough for the buses to continue and needless to say Aidan arrived safely home about an hour later than usual.
p.s. I called Rachel's mom to see if she had heard the news and she had not. (Skylar was still sick so Rachel's mom was going to pick up Aidan & Rachel from the bus stop for me) Luckily Aidan's teacher was calling all of her student's parents but not the other teachers in the higher grades (Rachel is in 2nd).I bet after Aidan's first day of school bus fiasco, I was first on her calling list :), she definitely reassured me on the phone that Aidan was ok and he would be coming home soon. I feel bad for all of the other parents who sat in the rain at bus stops for about an hour waiting for their kids to come home not knowing why they were so late...Don't bother calling the school to find out why, the lines were busy the entire time.
*Note to self: buy a large umbrella*
Yesterday I just so happen to be waiting for Aidan to get home so I could go grocery shopping otherwise the delay really wouldn't have bothered me. Now I was shopping an hour late, which put me into 6 o'clock traffic when we left the grocery store, which put me late into making dinner and now I have 2 children in the backseat of the car starving and chanting "we want french fries" *sigh* Damn Thunderstorms!
I really wish I could remember to not wear my flip flops when I go grocery shopping in the rain. My feet get soak & wet, then freezing cold as you step in the grocery store, plus you Hydro-plane on any flat surface until your flippies dry. Of course my little independent Skylar had to walk in the rain next to me from the store back to the car as opposed to riding in the shopping cart so I could at least run to the car in the pouring rain but Nooooo Miss Independent is all about me letting her walk like a big girl.
**Moral of today's story: Always keep an umbrella by your front door & if you are on a tight grocery shopping schedule and it's raining...don't bother, just order a pizza and shop the next day :)
Yesterday (Tuesday) It was time for Aidan's bus to be dropping off the kids when I receive a phone call from Aidan's teacher...The children are still at the school on lock down because of all of the lightning and flash flooding. I'm really glad she called. I could hear chaos in the background. The teacher put me on hold to calm down a little girl who was scared and her mommy was now coming to get her from the school instead of riding the bus home. I hear the word "Lock down" and I fear the worst... When they are crimes and police chases or anything of the sort, in the area of a public school, the schools are put on "lock downs" until the crisis is taken care of. I feel better knowing it's just the weather. I didn't like it when the teacher informed me that it is their policy for the bus drivers to also stop and if the weather is too bad, to bring the kids back to the school so the parents can pick them up there. Thankfully, the weather let up enough for the buses to continue and needless to say Aidan arrived safely home about an hour later than usual.
p.s. I called Rachel's mom to see if she had heard the news and she had not. (Skylar was still sick so Rachel's mom was going to pick up Aidan & Rachel from the bus stop for me) Luckily Aidan's teacher was calling all of her student's parents but not the other teachers in the higher grades (Rachel is in 2nd).I bet after Aidan's first day of school bus fiasco, I was first on her calling list :), she definitely reassured me on the phone that Aidan was ok and he would be coming home soon. I feel bad for all of the other parents who sat in the rain at bus stops for about an hour waiting for their kids to come home not knowing why they were so late...Don't bother calling the school to find out why, the lines were busy the entire time.
*Note to self: buy a large umbrella*
Yesterday I just so happen to be waiting for Aidan to get home so I could go grocery shopping otherwise the delay really wouldn't have bothered me. Now I was shopping an hour late, which put me into 6 o'clock traffic when we left the grocery store, which put me late into making dinner and now I have 2 children in the backseat of the car starving and chanting "we want french fries" *sigh* Damn Thunderstorms!
I really wish I could remember to not wear my flip flops when I go grocery shopping in the rain. My feet get soak & wet, then freezing cold as you step in the grocery store, plus you Hydro-plane on any flat surface until your flippies dry. Of course my little independent Skylar had to walk in the rain next to me from the store back to the car as opposed to riding in the shopping cart so I could at least run to the car in the pouring rain but Nooooo Miss Independent is all about me letting her walk like a big girl.
**Moral of today's story: Always keep an umbrella by your front door & if you are on a tight grocery shopping schedule and it's raining...don't bother, just order a pizza and shop the next day :)
Monday, September 27, 2010
Progress Reports
We received Aidan's progress report and it reads as I had suspected it would. Unless he is a trouble maker, a bully, socially disruptive or a biter, he is going to get all "S"'s for satisfactory. I really wonder if any other child got a different progress report? match, science, English, writing, and all of those categories, he received a "W" which is for Kindergarten & first grades only which means "working on skills". Wouldn't every single child in the first progress report get one of those? ALL children are "working on skills" that is the point of the first few weeks of Kindergarten. I'm confused. However, in the Art, Music, P.E. categories, he receives an "S" in all of them. So he requires the skills already for those? Maybe he needs to work on his jumping rope skill?
In the notes section the teacher write "Aidan is such a sweet boy. He is doing well in class. With a little extra help from the teacher he completes the work assigned. He can benefit from extra practice in staying on task and following directions, and writing letters appropriately.
I would like to point out that he is a 5 year old boy with the attention spam of a gnat! If I'm talking to him anywhere near a t.v., he will look through/around me to see the t.v. while I'm trying to tell him something. I would LOVE to give him some extra practice in "staying on task and following instructions" :) that one hopefully will work itself out in time, with the teacher's help lol. I don't believe that at this point with Aidan it is something that can be "taught" I can ask him to put something in his room and he will get half way there and start doing something else. I can tell Skylar to do something once and she does it, Aidan not so much. In fact, I can tell Aidan to go do something or get me something and Skylar will race him there to do it instead of him.
Such is the way with girls. Skylar still helps carry in groceries while Aidan walks inside, takes his shoes off and will sit down complaining he's thirsty. Amazing how girls learn instinctively at a young age to work and take care of everyone while boys learn to drop dead of exhaustion and complain until someone brings them a drink.
In the notes section the teacher write "Aidan is such a sweet boy. He is doing well in class. With a little extra help from the teacher he completes the work assigned. He can benefit from extra practice in staying on task and following directions, and writing letters appropriately.
I would like to point out that he is a 5 year old boy with the attention spam of a gnat! If I'm talking to him anywhere near a t.v., he will look through/around me to see the t.v. while I'm trying to tell him something. I would LOVE to give him some extra practice in "staying on task and following instructions" :) that one hopefully will work itself out in time, with the teacher's help lol. I don't believe that at this point with Aidan it is something that can be "taught" I can ask him to put something in his room and he will get half way there and start doing something else. I can tell Skylar to do something once and she does it, Aidan not so much. In fact, I can tell Aidan to go do something or get me something and Skylar will race him there to do it instead of him.
Such is the way with girls. Skylar still helps carry in groceries while Aidan walks inside, takes his shoes off and will sit down complaining he's thirsty. Amazing how girls learn instinctively at a young age to work and take care of everyone while boys learn to drop dead of exhaustion and complain until someone brings them a drink.
Sick Again!
Aidan was sick again last week, fortunately his only lasted a weekend and another Monday missed from still having a fever. He is all better now. However the cold was passed along to me, Daddy & Skylar who is still sick as we all got better.
Last Tuesday night was Aidan's first open house. They divided the night into 2 different time slots back to back for 40 minutes a slot. However, I think all parents for Aidan's class showed up in the first 40 minute time slot like I did, and we stayed the whole hour and a half. I was the first one there and the last one to leave :) It was cute. The class was set up all nice and we had a "scavenger hunt" when we walked in so our child could show us around the room and to each station and tell us a little bit about what they do during the day. Needless to say, I just walked around and looked at everything and would ask Aidan what is this for? And he was so excited just to show me all the kids in his class that I couldn't get much out of him. Joe was out of town working unfortunately so he didn't get to go. I had to take Skylar with me and she was QUITE the typical two year old running around touching everything. It was so hard to listen to what Aidan's teacher wanted to say because I was trying to keep an eye on Skylar while she was at a coloring station with other children and Aidan was a hyper talkative little boy who kept trying to tell me things. I was irritated at the "announcement" on video as soon as we "the parents" got into the classroom. We were all made to sit and watch a 10-15 minutes presentation on a video made for us about voting in November and what it means for school funding. I'm not saying it isn't important, but I'm here tonight in a very short amount of time to learn about my child's progression in school and what they have been working on plus any questions I may have, not to spend 15 minutes I'll never get back being kidnapped and FORCED to watch politicians speak.
We were informed that their first field trip in coming up. They are going to a farm/petting zoo place in the first week of October. I can't wait! I will not be able to chaperone this time since I will have Skylar but My sister is going in my place. I should say this now how much better I feel knowing that someone I know & trust will be with him while he is away. Plus she can take lots of pictures for me :)
I can't wait to post those pictures!
Last Tuesday night was Aidan's first open house. They divided the night into 2 different time slots back to back for 40 minutes a slot. However, I think all parents for Aidan's class showed up in the first 40 minute time slot like I did, and we stayed the whole hour and a half. I was the first one there and the last one to leave :) It was cute. The class was set up all nice and we had a "scavenger hunt" when we walked in so our child could show us around the room and to each station and tell us a little bit about what they do during the day. Needless to say, I just walked around and looked at everything and would ask Aidan what is this for? And he was so excited just to show me all the kids in his class that I couldn't get much out of him. Joe was out of town working unfortunately so he didn't get to go. I had to take Skylar with me and she was QUITE the typical two year old running around touching everything. It was so hard to listen to what Aidan's teacher wanted to say because I was trying to keep an eye on Skylar while she was at a coloring station with other children and Aidan was a hyper talkative little boy who kept trying to tell me things. I was irritated at the "announcement" on video as soon as we "the parents" got into the classroom. We were all made to sit and watch a 10-15 minutes presentation on a video made for us about voting in November and what it means for school funding. I'm not saying it isn't important, but I'm here tonight in a very short amount of time to learn about my child's progression in school and what they have been working on plus any questions I may have, not to spend 15 minutes I'll never get back being kidnapped and FORCED to watch politicians speak.
We were informed that their first field trip in coming up. They are going to a farm/petting zoo place in the first week of October. I can't wait! I will not be able to chaperone this time since I will have Skylar but My sister is going in my place. I should say this now how much better I feel knowing that someone I know & trust will be with him while he is away. Plus she can take lots of pictures for me :)
I can't wait to post those pictures!
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Kindergarten DAY ?
Ok so it has been one week since my last post. Labor Day weekend just passed us by (A nice 3 days) It is the 3rd week into school and I am already seeing no point in "counting" the kindergarten days as day..whatever. I have a 2 1/2 year old daughter who as I type this is screaming her little terrible two self to death right behind me. (Time for some Advil) I have Aidan in Kindergarten with homework (for me apparently not him) every night now. I have mandatory reading him 20 minutes of stories a night as well which I love doing, but let's face it - there are some nights where I'm exhausted and it isn't possible for story time. Which of course I as a mom go to bed feeling every badly that I didn't do it anyways, even with my migraine. Between laundry, cleaning, cooking, working from home & the kids, there is little time left over for me & daddy in the evening, Especially when he gets home from work at 6:30-ish every night, just in time for dinner and some t.v. downtime before he has to shower, bed & do it all over again the next day.
If any of you have any secrets to juggling all of this? Please feel free to leave them here :) Aidan never had the terrible twos or threes so this is all new to me. I will end this here so I can go calm down my poor screaming baby who is thrashing & kicking and screaming at me for what appears to be no apparent reason.
Thank-You for understanding :)
If any of you have any secrets to juggling all of this? Please feel free to leave them here :) Aidan never had the terrible twos or threes so this is all new to me. I will end this here so I can go calm down my poor screaming baby who is thrashing & kicking and screaming at me for what appears to be no apparent reason.
Thank-You for understanding :)
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Kindergarten DAY 8
Wednesday September 1 2010
I'm so aggravated at this blue take home folder of Aidan's. I thought it was for me to look at everyday with information for me, fliers, school announcements, etc.. Apparently it is a "communication" folder. Explain to me again why teachers nowadays communicate through a folder & a 5 year old? It is like passing notes in study hall. I emailed his teacher yesterday after 3 worksheets appeared in the folder with question marks at the top -nothing else. On a calendar was a note (with a tone) to complete homework. I was under the impression homework so far was reading for 20 minutes a night and signing off on the calendar which books we read. If this was a homework folder, shouldn't I have been told this at open house? Or any other time in the past week? *sigh* Right after I received the very structured and business sounding email from his teacher, I received the same email again however, it was Carbon copied to every other parent in the teacher's email address so they are now informed as well.
I'm happy now we are all on the same page. I'm still upset at how all of this feels so impersonal. Maybe it is just Aidan's teacher? Maybe it's the school? The County School System? How would I know. All I do know is this fairy tale dream I had of a great school year and meeting the teacher and helping out in the classroom, and baking cookies, is a sham. I really do hate to think this is how it is done nowadays.
Aidan is very smart and we sat down and did all 3 worksheets very quickly, in fact when we were done he wanted more to do. He is getting a lot better at cutting
(we are cheating & using my good scissors) I also had to refrain from gluing his pictures onto his homework for him, I handed him the glue stick and let him go to town. I think we don't realize how much we do for our kids without letting them try it for themselves. Such as letting Aidan put the straw in his own juice box. Sounds really dumb right? That A 5 year old should be able to put a straw in his own juice box, but what if he's never done it before? I have ALWAYS just ripped it of the side, pushed it out of the plastic & popped it in the top for him. He probably didn't even know it didn't already come with the straw inside.
So that is my new goal for this year, let Aidan try to do everything first for himself, and then offer my help. Although opening the top of those hunts pudding cups are a big pain that I don't expect him to be able to do just yet. I ask him then who opens it during his lunch time? He told me a girl rips it open with her teeth for him everyday. LOL now that is funny. I wonder if that little girl goes home and tells her mommy that she opens a little boys pudding everyday with her teeth because he can't (he lost 3 teeth already in the front due to horseplay and an ottoman to my rocking chair) Score Furniture:3 Aidan:0
I'm so aggravated at this blue take home folder of Aidan's. I thought it was for me to look at everyday with information for me, fliers, school announcements, etc.. Apparently it is a "communication" folder. Explain to me again why teachers nowadays communicate through a folder & a 5 year old? It is like passing notes in study hall. I emailed his teacher yesterday after 3 worksheets appeared in the folder with question marks at the top -nothing else. On a calendar was a note (with a tone) to complete homework. I was under the impression homework so far was reading for 20 minutes a night and signing off on the calendar which books we read. If this was a homework folder, shouldn't I have been told this at open house? Or any other time in the past week? *sigh* Right after I received the very structured and business sounding email from his teacher, I received the same email again however, it was Carbon copied to every other parent in the teacher's email address so they are now informed as well.
I'm happy now we are all on the same page. I'm still upset at how all of this feels so impersonal. Maybe it is just Aidan's teacher? Maybe it's the school? The County School System? How would I know. All I do know is this fairy tale dream I had of a great school year and meeting the teacher and helping out in the classroom, and baking cookies, is a sham. I really do hate to think this is how it is done nowadays.
Aidan is very smart and we sat down and did all 3 worksheets very quickly, in fact when we were done he wanted more to do. He is getting a lot better at cutting
(we are cheating & using my good scissors) I also had to refrain from gluing his pictures onto his homework for him, I handed him the glue stick and let him go to town. I think we don't realize how much we do for our kids without letting them try it for themselves. Such as letting Aidan put the straw in his own juice box. Sounds really dumb right? That A 5 year old should be able to put a straw in his own juice box, but what if he's never done it before? I have ALWAYS just ripped it of the side, pushed it out of the plastic & popped it in the top for him. He probably didn't even know it didn't already come with the straw inside.
So that is my new goal for this year, let Aidan try to do everything first for himself, and then offer my help. Although opening the top of those hunts pudding cups are a big pain that I don't expect him to be able to do just yet. I ask him then who opens it during his lunch time? He told me a girl rips it open with her teeth for him everyday. LOL now that is funny. I wonder if that little girl goes home and tells her mommy that she opens a little boys pudding everyday with her teeth because he can't (he lost 3 teeth already in the front due to horseplay and an ottoman to my rocking chair) Score Furniture:3 Aidan:0
Kindergarten Day 7
Nothing exiting on Tuesday :) I'm very grateful. Everything went smoothly. I am still sick and so is Skylar, Aidan seems perfectly fine with a 24 hour cold. Although he did go to bed tonight exhausted before 8pm which is unusual, Skylar did too.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Kindergarten DAY 6
Monday August 30 2010
Aidan stayed home from school today sick. He had a slight fever and congestion in his chest & nose so at the last minute, I decided to let him stay home and rest. If your child has not been in daycare/pre-K before starting Kindergarten, He/She is GOING TO GET SICK! & Quickly! Being around so many children in such a confined space makes it really easy for all children not use to that environment to get sick. I use hand sanitizer as soon as he gets off the bus but I have no idea how many times a day if any he gets to wash his hands. Now of course Aidan is fine today and back in school, but I just wanted to make sure and I did not want to give him any cold medicine and have him be groggy all day at school.
Me, not so lucky. I feel like I was run over by a bus! My head is so congested & runny. My entire body aches and my left ear is throbbing (I have always been prone to sinus infections & ear aches). Aidan is back in school within 24 hours and I will probably be laid up in bed for a week. Today (Tuesday) Skylar (2 1/2) is now a little congested and starting to cough -no fever.
SO Monday's lesson is your child is going to get sick and probably pretty quickly when they start school. SO when you are out buying supplies for their classroom, don't forget to stock up on a few extra boxes of tissues, some tea bags, honey or lemon, cough drops and your antihistamine of choice, Because when your child gets sick, most likely everyone in your house will get sick as well.
Aidan stayed home from school today sick. He had a slight fever and congestion in his chest & nose so at the last minute, I decided to let him stay home and rest. If your child has not been in daycare/pre-K before starting Kindergarten, He/She is GOING TO GET SICK! & Quickly! Being around so many children in such a confined space makes it really easy for all children not use to that environment to get sick. I use hand sanitizer as soon as he gets off the bus but I have no idea how many times a day if any he gets to wash his hands. Now of course Aidan is fine today and back in school, but I just wanted to make sure and I did not want to give him any cold medicine and have him be groggy all day at school.
Me, not so lucky. I feel like I was run over by a bus! My head is so congested & runny. My entire body aches and my left ear is throbbing (I have always been prone to sinus infections & ear aches). Aidan is back in school within 24 hours and I will probably be laid up in bed for a week. Today (Tuesday) Skylar (2 1/2) is now a little congested and starting to cough -no fever.
SO Monday's lesson is your child is going to get sick and probably pretty quickly when they start school. SO when you are out buying supplies for their classroom, don't forget to stock up on a few extra boxes of tissues, some tea bags, honey or lemon, cough drops and your antihistamine of choice, Because when your child gets sick, most likely everyone in your house will get sick as well.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Kindergarten DAY 5
WE SURVIVED THE FIRST WEEK!
I'm am so relieved to finally have the first week behind us! It is Saturday and although Skylar still woke me up at 7am, Aidan got to sleep in until about 8:30. He has been so worn out this whole week :) He apparently has been sleeping on the bus ride home a few times. He says the bus is too bumpy :)
Aidan came home yesterday (Friday) and I said he could play a video game on my computer after he practiced cutting paper into strips again. I have about 10 different websites as icons for him so he knows which games are his...PBS kids, Nick Jr, Playhouse Disney, Cartoon Network, Etc... I also made a new icon for the website "Starfall.com" It is an educational website with games, activities, & reading. He loves it! He actually picked this game yesterday as his game of choice to play instead of a much less educational yet fun (cartoon network). I am so excited that he is excited about reading, letters, & words. I read to him almost every night and although he has always been interested in books and stories, he seems to like them even more now. He tells me everyday about the stories they read in class.
This is the first time in as long as I can remember, I can't wait for Monday!
I'm am so relieved to finally have the first week behind us! It is Saturday and although Skylar still woke me up at 7am, Aidan got to sleep in until about 8:30. He has been so worn out this whole week :) He apparently has been sleeping on the bus ride home a few times. He says the bus is too bumpy :)
Aidan came home yesterday (Friday) and I said he could play a video game on my computer after he practiced cutting paper into strips again. I have about 10 different websites as icons for him so he knows which games are his...PBS kids, Nick Jr, Playhouse Disney, Cartoon Network, Etc... I also made a new icon for the website "Starfall.com" It is an educational website with games, activities, & reading. He loves it! He actually picked this game yesterday as his game of choice to play instead of a much less educational yet fun (cartoon network). I am so excited that he is excited about reading, letters, & words. I read to him almost every night and although he has always been interested in books and stories, he seems to like them even more now. He tells me everyday about the stories they read in class.
This is the first time in as long as I can remember, I can't wait for Monday!
Friday, August 27, 2010
Kindergarten DAY 4 (picky eater & scissors 101)
Wednesday August 26 2010
Not too bad of a day. Aidan was reluctant to wake up this morning but after Skylar jumps on him for about 10 minutes, he figures he should just give in. Refuses to eat anything for breakfast but lunch is at 10:30 so maybe he will actually eat everything I have packed.
Since Aidan is quite the picky eater his lunch consists of plain Nacho Cheese Doritos (his fav) Tyson Dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets that I pre-cook every morning and put into a zip lock bag, a chocolate pudding and a fruit punch juice box. This is my picky eater. French Fries and Chicken. I have spoken with other moms who say their children are also picky eaters but when they say their child does eat veggies or some fruit that isn't an apple or banana, I sort of quit listening. Uh huh your kid is picky but he/she eats fruits & veggies. No Aidan likes literally a hand full of things. Now our policy is to make him try everything. He has to eat at least 1 thing new everyday unless it's taco night :) he refuses. I'm grateful because he doesn't eat sweets then either but something has got to give. I did finally get him to eat pizza. Plain cheese pizza that by the time I'm done cutting it so he can "choke" it down there isn't any cheese left anyways. He will only eat 1 slice. *slaps forehead* What child doesn't like pizza? I did have to bribe him with Pepsi. Usually the only soda I allow him to have is sprite when we get Burger King but with pizza I started to bribe him with Pepsi. He could have a sip after he took one bite, and so on and so on. It since has worked, and I no longer have to bribe him. He loves green granny smith apples, thankfully but that is the ONLY fruit he will eat. No veggies, I've tried corn & carrots to be simple, no luck. He psyches himself out and starts gagging before I can get the piece of tiny yellow corn to his mouth. Now I know how my parents must have felt. He has inherited this picky eating from me, however I am a lot better now as an adult. What child cannot eat corn? Or a carrot?
Last week I was eating a romaine salad and he was interested. I let him rifle through my salad and as he is pushing everything yummy aside, he decides to try the romaine. He makes me wash off a few pieces of romaine because it has little dots of things stuck to it that look gross to him (that is called Italian dressing). So he takes the tiniest bite I have ever seen someone take of a piece of lettuce and he says to me "mmmm yummy, mom I like it" *sigh* Really? Is it the romaine you like or all of that air you just swallowed? He continues to spend at least the next 30 minutes eating 4-5 tiny pieces of lettuce that has been washed of all yummy-ness but I am grateful, it is a start. By the way Romaine has a cold wet crunchy non flavor. Lettuce/romaine should be the absolute easiest thing for any child to try because it is virtually flavorless, which leads me to believe you can not trust anything a 5 year old tells you.
For snack yesterday afternoon at school, Aidan's teacher gave them pretzels. I love pretzels. They are my midnight snack of choice. I have tried countless times to get Aidan to try one with no success of course. Yesterday Aidan comes home from school and informs me that he has eaten pretzels and he likes them. You Lie. I said well I have some right here (thin pretzel sticks) why don't you show me you like them. He eats a small bowl of them. Wow. It's amazing that 3 days in school has gotten Aidan to like pretzels and I have been trying for over a year. I'm happy. Maybe watching all of the other children eat their "strange" lunches will make him want to try more foods. Monkey See Monkey Do.
Scissors 101
A Quick note: Aidan's teacher sent home a little note attached to a few pieces of badly sliced strips of paper "Aidan needs help using scissors" I'm hoping there wasn't a tone in that little note, because as a mother to a newbie Kindergartner it is going to be really hard not to get defensive of her baby. My sister was here and told me I was being silly. So I got out a pair of children's plastic scissors and made a few straight lines on some paper and let Aidan go to town. I'm watching him and it never occurred to me to teach him how to use scissors. *mental head slap* This should have been in the "prepping your child for school" manual. Of course he's cutting his fingers and holding everything all wrong. His cuts are jagged but pretty must on course. We will try again over the weekend. I try to pick up his scissors and show him how to do it when I realize, I can't do it. It is these tiny cheap plastic scissors. I give him a pair of my small orange handled scissors and he does remarkably well. Too bad he can't use these in school. Although I kept trying to tell him to watch his fingers where he was holding the paper, he did ok. I'm wondering how perfect of a line the teacher wants from him?
I see that a bright yellow flyer has come home to "teach" the proper use of scissors :) It is brought to you by "Fiskars" the official spokes scissor for classrooms. I find it funny that the flyer does say "choosing a good pair of scissors" Select a pair of scissors that... 1) Is made with a durable pivot point and corrosion-resistant blades. The angle of the grind on the cutting edges should be five percent or less. Great, Now I need to go to Home Depot to buy scissors for him as well as these elusive plastic folders
So as a quick reminder...If your child has never used scissors before, now is a good time to teach him or her. I always just cut whatever he needed and handed it to him, but with the 25 glue sticks that were on his school supplies list, there is bound to be ALOT of cutting in school with scissors.
Not too bad of a day. Aidan was reluctant to wake up this morning but after Skylar jumps on him for about 10 minutes, he figures he should just give in. Refuses to eat anything for breakfast but lunch is at 10:30 so maybe he will actually eat everything I have packed.
Since Aidan is quite the picky eater his lunch consists of plain Nacho Cheese Doritos (his fav) Tyson Dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets that I pre-cook every morning and put into a zip lock bag, a chocolate pudding and a fruit punch juice box. This is my picky eater. French Fries and Chicken. I have spoken with other moms who say their children are also picky eaters but when they say their child does eat veggies or some fruit that isn't an apple or banana, I sort of quit listening. Uh huh your kid is picky but he/she eats fruits & veggies. No Aidan likes literally a hand full of things. Now our policy is to make him try everything. He has to eat at least 1 thing new everyday unless it's taco night :) he refuses. I'm grateful because he doesn't eat sweets then either but something has got to give. I did finally get him to eat pizza. Plain cheese pizza that by the time I'm done cutting it so he can "choke" it down there isn't any cheese left anyways. He will only eat 1 slice. *slaps forehead* What child doesn't like pizza? I did have to bribe him with Pepsi. Usually the only soda I allow him to have is sprite when we get Burger King but with pizza I started to bribe him with Pepsi. He could have a sip after he took one bite, and so on and so on. It since has worked, and I no longer have to bribe him. He loves green granny smith apples, thankfully but that is the ONLY fruit he will eat. No veggies, I've tried corn & carrots to be simple, no luck. He psyches himself out and starts gagging before I can get the piece of tiny yellow corn to his mouth. Now I know how my parents must have felt. He has inherited this picky eating from me, however I am a lot better now as an adult. What child cannot eat corn? Or a carrot?
Last week I was eating a romaine salad and he was interested. I let him rifle through my salad and as he is pushing everything yummy aside, he decides to try the romaine. He makes me wash off a few pieces of romaine because it has little dots of things stuck to it that look gross to him (that is called Italian dressing). So he takes the tiniest bite I have ever seen someone take of a piece of lettuce and he says to me "mmmm yummy, mom I like it" *sigh* Really? Is it the romaine you like or all of that air you just swallowed? He continues to spend at least the next 30 minutes eating 4-5 tiny pieces of lettuce that has been washed of all yummy-ness but I am grateful, it is a start. By the way Romaine has a cold wet crunchy non flavor. Lettuce/romaine should be the absolute easiest thing for any child to try because it is virtually flavorless, which leads me to believe you can not trust anything a 5 year old tells you.
For snack yesterday afternoon at school, Aidan's teacher gave them pretzels. I love pretzels. They are my midnight snack of choice. I have tried countless times to get Aidan to try one with no success of course. Yesterday Aidan comes home from school and informs me that he has eaten pretzels and he likes them. You Lie. I said well I have some right here (thin pretzel sticks) why don't you show me you like them. He eats a small bowl of them. Wow. It's amazing that 3 days in school has gotten Aidan to like pretzels and I have been trying for over a year. I'm happy. Maybe watching all of the other children eat their "strange" lunches will make him want to try more foods. Monkey See Monkey Do.
Scissors 101
A Quick note: Aidan's teacher sent home a little note attached to a few pieces of badly sliced strips of paper "Aidan needs help using scissors" I'm hoping there wasn't a tone in that little note, because as a mother to a newbie Kindergartner it is going to be really hard not to get defensive of her baby. My sister was here and told me I was being silly. So I got out a pair of children's plastic scissors and made a few straight lines on some paper and let Aidan go to town. I'm watching him and it never occurred to me to teach him how to use scissors. *mental head slap* This should have been in the "prepping your child for school" manual. Of course he's cutting his fingers and holding everything all wrong. His cuts are jagged but pretty must on course. We will try again over the weekend. I try to pick up his scissors and show him how to do it when I realize, I can't do it. It is these tiny cheap plastic scissors. I give him a pair of my small orange handled scissors and he does remarkably well. Too bad he can't use these in school. Although I kept trying to tell him to watch his fingers where he was holding the paper, he did ok. I'm wondering how perfect of a line the teacher wants from him?
I see that a bright yellow flyer has come home to "teach" the proper use of scissors :) It is brought to you by "Fiskars" the official spokes scissor for classrooms. I find it funny that the flyer does say "choosing a good pair of scissors" Select a pair of scissors that... 1) Is made with a durable pivot point and corrosion-resistant blades. The angle of the grind on the cutting edges should be five percent or less. Great, Now I need to go to Home Depot to buy scissors for him as well as these elusive plastic folders
So as a quick reminder...If your child has never used scissors before, now is a good time to teach him or her. I always just cut whatever he needed and handed it to him, but with the 25 glue sticks that were on his school supplies list, there is bound to be ALOT of cutting in school with scissors.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Kindergarten DAY 3
Wednesday August 25
The day started out pretty good. I woke up Aidan for school, he reluctantly got up and started getting ready for school. He still barely drinks anything that early and now refuses to eat the fruit loops. I figure lunch is actually breakfast at 10:30am so that is probably when he'll be hungry anyways. I pack up his backpack and I write a note to the teacher. Aidan had stepped on some glass Tuesday night and sliced pretty good his big toe. If they have P.E. today (I have not been given their daily schedules from their teacher), I want to make sure if it's bothering him that they know he might not want to jump up and down on it. I also add that I don't think he's drinking enough. It's very hot here and he is use to being home and whenever he is thirsty, I give him a drink. Aidan drank maybe 3 ounces of tea before he left for school yesterday & today so I want the teacher to show him where the water fountain is and remind him to drink plenty of water. I also packed a cold water bottle in his backpack in case he has P.E. I was given an information sheet that says to bring a water bottle every day to class. I show Aidan that I'm putting it in his backpack and that he NEEDS to drink more at school. I've been informed that all communication with the teacher to parent is done in a blue PLASTIC folder that stays in his backpack. The teacher collects it everyday and sends it home everyday with notes, homework, any fliers with info. So I put the note to the teacher in the folder & also put his necklace/bus tag with name in the folder so she can put it back on him when it's time to leave for the bus in the afternoon. We walk to the bus stop. I'm very happy that Rachel isn't embarrassed to help out a Kindergartner. Aidan sits with her on the bus so he isn't alone. This makes me feel so good.
Today is early day. Why we have early day on Wednesdays is beyond me. Only 1 hour a week they get out early. So I have set an alarm in my cell phone for Wednesday to remind me that he gets home at 2:37 instead of 3:37. I go about my day. It is very quiet here. Skylar is trying to make up for Aidan being gone. She plays in his rooms, tries on his clothes and enjoys all of the attention just on her. She asks me every 30 minutes if it is time to pick up Aidan. :) She is adorable! She puts her shoes on an hour before his bus is supposed to be here because she is so anxious. I'm feeling a lot more relaxed. I'm trying to get in this new groove of getting Aidan ready for school, having the entire afternoon to be with Skylar & to get some work done around the house and on the computer. Then when he gets home he's always hungry and sleepy but he hasn't taken a nap yet.
My sister arrives again to walk down to Aidan's bus stop with us (she lives in the same neighborhood). Her & Skylar are already out the door early before I've even found my shoes! I wait for the bus, the big yellow flat front bus comes around the corner and I'm very confident that he'll be on it. I wait & watch all of the kids one by one walk off of the bus, Finally I see Rachel and right behind her is Aidan. Smiling. They sat together and Aidan showed me the stick people drawings he made while on the bus. Super Cute! Rachel told her mom who told me that She's happy to help Aidan, It's like having a little brother she says. That makes me very happy.
We walk home from the bus stop and I'm digging in his backpack. I ask if he ate all of his lunch, what stories he read today, and If he played on the playground. We get home & I look in his little blue folder, and there is my note to the teacher and his bus necklace still in there. I also have a note shoved into his backpack saying to "please return the blue folder & the bus pass to the teacher EVERY DAY thanks!", I'm confused. I've also been informed that due to new "privacy rules" teachers are no longer allowed to touch a students backpack, therefor my 5 year old has to understand to give the blue folder to her everyday all by himself. I found her email address (I was never given his teachers proper contact information) and I sent her a message saying his folder, a note & his bus pass were in his backpack, why didn't you get it. She replied she asked him for it and he said he didn't have it. Well there is your first mistake, trusting a 5 year old on the 3rd day of school to understand that he has an important blue folder he must keep track of & hand in to the teacher. I don't know how she asked him or any other student for the folder, but I'm pretty sure is she walked up to him and said open your backpack, Aidan is there a blue folder in there, can I have it please? He would have looked or showed her his backpack WITHOUT HER TOUCHING IT :( that is was or was not in there. Do not expect a 5 year old to be in charge of answering truthful questions like that. Aidan is the sky blue? "no I think it's red". Again, he's 5. Now I'm not saying Aidan would actually think blue is red, he does know his colors very well (you know if the buses were named colors instead of vague animals he might have gotten on the right bus the first day), but I needed an example and it's all I could think of.
I do not like all of these new stupid rules that schools come out with. All food must be in a sealed store bought container for all school functions. (Another parent informed me of this, not the school that would wait until I show up with something homemade then make me take it back home.) I will NEVER be allowed to bake cupcakes for Aidan's 6th birthday in school. How sad of a world we live in. The teacher is NOT allowed to help him in the bathroom whatsoever. She's not allowed in there when he is. I understand that for 2-5th graders but the first week of Kindergarten? Ridiculous! She isn't ALLOWED to look in his backpack for any reason. Who came up with that stupid rule? There is nothing in a Kindergartner's backpack that would invade his privacy. Can I opt out of this rule? Is there a waver I can sign? Please go digging for gold in his backpack. Find his jacket if he's cold, make sure his lunch box is in there, this elusive blue folder you speak of, please go digging for that one! His water bottle I hope he's using but probably isn't because you aren't allowed to get it out of his backpack and make him drink it. I'm not saying I want his teacher to be 100% mommy. After all him going to Kindergarten is the next stage in him growing into a big boy. I get it, but I want a loving caring environment for his Kindergarten year. IT IS a transition between mommy to teacher, so why shouldn't the rules for Kindergarten be 1/2 mommy, and 1/2 teacher? First grade can be teacher/student, but for all of us first time mommies out there with their first born off to school, I think whoever is coming up with these rules and plans should be fired.
For now Aidan is home safe and sound, an hour early for some strange reason, and hopefully tomorrow he will wake up willing and wanting to attend kindergarten yet again. 3 days down, 1 whole more year to go! Can't wait :)
The day started out pretty good. I woke up Aidan for school, he reluctantly got up and started getting ready for school. He still barely drinks anything that early and now refuses to eat the fruit loops. I figure lunch is actually breakfast at 10:30am so that is probably when he'll be hungry anyways. I pack up his backpack and I write a note to the teacher. Aidan had stepped on some glass Tuesday night and sliced pretty good his big toe. If they have P.E. today (I have not been given their daily schedules from their teacher), I want to make sure if it's bothering him that they know he might not want to jump up and down on it. I also add that I don't think he's drinking enough. It's very hot here and he is use to being home and whenever he is thirsty, I give him a drink. Aidan drank maybe 3 ounces of tea before he left for school yesterday & today so I want the teacher to show him where the water fountain is and remind him to drink plenty of water. I also packed a cold water bottle in his backpack in case he has P.E. I was given an information sheet that says to bring a water bottle every day to class. I show Aidan that I'm putting it in his backpack and that he NEEDS to drink more at school. I've been informed that all communication with the teacher to parent is done in a blue PLASTIC folder that stays in his backpack. The teacher collects it everyday and sends it home everyday with notes, homework, any fliers with info. So I put the note to the teacher in the folder & also put his necklace/bus tag with name in the folder so she can put it back on him when it's time to leave for the bus in the afternoon. We walk to the bus stop. I'm very happy that Rachel isn't embarrassed to help out a Kindergartner. Aidan sits with her on the bus so he isn't alone. This makes me feel so good.
Today is early day. Why we have early day on Wednesdays is beyond me. Only 1 hour a week they get out early. So I have set an alarm in my cell phone for Wednesday to remind me that he gets home at 2:37 instead of 3:37. I go about my day. It is very quiet here. Skylar is trying to make up for Aidan being gone. She plays in his rooms, tries on his clothes and enjoys all of the attention just on her. She asks me every 30 minutes if it is time to pick up Aidan. :) She is adorable! She puts her shoes on an hour before his bus is supposed to be here because she is so anxious. I'm feeling a lot more relaxed. I'm trying to get in this new groove of getting Aidan ready for school, having the entire afternoon to be with Skylar & to get some work done around the house and on the computer. Then when he gets home he's always hungry and sleepy but he hasn't taken a nap yet.
My sister arrives again to walk down to Aidan's bus stop with us (she lives in the same neighborhood). Her & Skylar are already out the door early before I've even found my shoes! I wait for the bus, the big yellow flat front bus comes around the corner and I'm very confident that he'll be on it. I wait & watch all of the kids one by one walk off of the bus, Finally I see Rachel and right behind her is Aidan. Smiling. They sat together and Aidan showed me the stick people drawings he made while on the bus. Super Cute! Rachel told her mom who told me that She's happy to help Aidan, It's like having a little brother she says. That makes me very happy.
We walk home from the bus stop and I'm digging in his backpack. I ask if he ate all of his lunch, what stories he read today, and If he played on the playground. We get home & I look in his little blue folder, and there is my note to the teacher and his bus necklace still in there. I also have a note shoved into his backpack saying to "please return the blue folder & the bus pass to the teacher EVERY DAY thanks!", I'm confused. I've also been informed that due to new "privacy rules" teachers are no longer allowed to touch a students backpack, therefor my 5 year old has to understand to give the blue folder to her everyday all by himself. I found her email address (I was never given his teachers proper contact information) and I sent her a message saying his folder, a note & his bus pass were in his backpack, why didn't you get it. She replied she asked him for it and he said he didn't have it. Well there is your first mistake, trusting a 5 year old on the 3rd day of school to understand that he has an important blue folder he must keep track of & hand in to the teacher. I don't know how she asked him or any other student for the folder, but I'm pretty sure is she walked up to him and said open your backpack, Aidan is there a blue folder in there, can I have it please? He would have looked or showed her his backpack WITHOUT HER TOUCHING IT :( that is was or was not in there. Do not expect a 5 year old to be in charge of answering truthful questions like that. Aidan is the sky blue? "no I think it's red". Again, he's 5. Now I'm not saying Aidan would actually think blue is red, he does know his colors very well (you know if the buses were named colors instead of vague animals he might have gotten on the right bus the first day), but I needed an example and it's all I could think of.
I do not like all of these new stupid rules that schools come out with. All food must be in a sealed store bought container for all school functions. (Another parent informed me of this, not the school that would wait until I show up with something homemade then make me take it back home.) I will NEVER be allowed to bake cupcakes for Aidan's 6th birthday in school. How sad of a world we live in. The teacher is NOT allowed to help him in the bathroom whatsoever. She's not allowed in there when he is. I understand that for 2-5th graders but the first week of Kindergarten? Ridiculous! She isn't ALLOWED to look in his backpack for any reason. Who came up with that stupid rule? There is nothing in a Kindergartner's backpack that would invade his privacy. Can I opt out of this rule? Is there a waver I can sign? Please go digging for gold in his backpack. Find his jacket if he's cold, make sure his lunch box is in there, this elusive blue folder you speak of, please go digging for that one! His water bottle I hope he's using but probably isn't because you aren't allowed to get it out of his backpack and make him drink it. I'm not saying I want his teacher to be 100% mommy. After all him going to Kindergarten is the next stage in him growing into a big boy. I get it, but I want a loving caring environment for his Kindergarten year. IT IS a transition between mommy to teacher, so why shouldn't the rules for Kindergarten be 1/2 mommy, and 1/2 teacher? First grade can be teacher/student, but for all of us first time mommies out there with their first born off to school, I think whoever is coming up with these rules and plans should be fired.
For now Aidan is home safe and sound, an hour early for some strange reason, and hopefully tomorrow he will wake up willing and wanting to attend kindergarten yet again. 3 days down, 1 whole more year to go! Can't wait :)
Kindergarten DAY 2
Tuesday August 24th 2010
My alarm goes off and I go to wake up Aidan. I tell him get up it's time for school. He wakes up very sad and tells me he doesn't want to go back to school, he doesn't like it, or the bus. I'm trying very hard not to just let him stay home today. Daddy had to go back to work today with our only car so there is no "taking him to school", he has to ride the bus. I promise him video games & movies and whatever he wants, just to get him up and on the bus. He reluctantly listens and it's almost time for the bus. We walk to his bus stop and I tell my neighbor all about what happened yesterday. Her daughter is in 2nd grade and she has agreed to help Aidan. She is going to walk him to where they meet their teachers in the morning and to help him find the right bus in the afternoon, I feel alot better. Aidan is now wearing a name tag with his name, my phone number, his teacher AND his school bus animal. Apparently someone came up with the idea to name the buses with pictures animals, instead of colors. Children that are between 4-7 would remember a color with the matching color wrist band alot better then an animal.
Yesterday Aidan WAS paired up with a boy to get on the bus but Aidan's bus is "Eagle" and the little boy's bus was "Butterfly". Why would you pair up a child with someone that doesn't even ride the same bus? That one will go unanswered I'm sure. I ask Aidan again, what bus do you ride? he says butterfly. I say, no, butterfly is bad, we don't like butterfly, we like eagle. (I Google a picture of several eagles last night so he can see what the picture on the side of his bus should look like)
The bus arrives and the bus driver pulls Aidan aside and says this is Aidan? I said yes, green shirt, bald head, he better be on your bus today because I will be here waiting! I don't care if you personally have to put him on your bus, I am trusting no one. In fact I have more faith in my neighbors 2nd grader then ANYONE at Aidan's school. He leaves, I wave, I walk home and check my phone for the loudest ringer available and I anxiously wait until 3:37
Me & Skylar (my sister has arrived again also) walk down to his bus stop and wait. We see this large flat front bus pull up and I wait....and wait....and I see the blond neighbor's child Rachel get off the bus and right behind her is Aidan!! I could have cried, I think I did, I was so happy!! Aidan now has 3 different labels, tags, & necklaces stapled to him from his teacher to make sure he got on the right bus. I knew they would not be making that mistake with me twice. We walk home and Aidan tells me about his day. I ask if he played outside, If he ate all of his lunch I packed him, He tells me he's hungry for hot dogs and Doritos. No problem! Whatever my baby wants today, I call daddy to let him know he made it home ok. Aidan is happy, he says he likes school and can't wait for tomorrow. I thank Rachel so much for helping Aidan, & we walk home. Skylar is so happy to have her big brother home again to play with.
My alarm goes off and I go to wake up Aidan. I tell him get up it's time for school. He wakes up very sad and tells me he doesn't want to go back to school, he doesn't like it, or the bus. I'm trying very hard not to just let him stay home today. Daddy had to go back to work today with our only car so there is no "taking him to school", he has to ride the bus. I promise him video games & movies and whatever he wants, just to get him up and on the bus. He reluctantly listens and it's almost time for the bus. We walk to his bus stop and I tell my neighbor all about what happened yesterday. Her daughter is in 2nd grade and she has agreed to help Aidan. She is going to walk him to where they meet their teachers in the morning and to help him find the right bus in the afternoon, I feel alot better. Aidan is now wearing a name tag with his name, my phone number, his teacher AND his school bus animal. Apparently someone came up with the idea to name the buses with pictures animals, instead of colors. Children that are between 4-7 would remember a color with the matching color wrist band alot better then an animal.
Yesterday Aidan WAS paired up with a boy to get on the bus but Aidan's bus is "Eagle" and the little boy's bus was "Butterfly". Why would you pair up a child with someone that doesn't even ride the same bus? That one will go unanswered I'm sure. I ask Aidan again, what bus do you ride? he says butterfly. I say, no, butterfly is bad, we don't like butterfly, we like eagle. (I Google a picture of several eagles last night so he can see what the picture on the side of his bus should look like)
The bus arrives and the bus driver pulls Aidan aside and says this is Aidan? I said yes, green shirt, bald head, he better be on your bus today because I will be here waiting! I don't care if you personally have to put him on your bus, I am trusting no one. In fact I have more faith in my neighbors 2nd grader then ANYONE at Aidan's school. He leaves, I wave, I walk home and check my phone for the loudest ringer available and I anxiously wait until 3:37
Me & Skylar (my sister has arrived again also) walk down to his bus stop and wait. We see this large flat front bus pull up and I wait....and wait....and I see the blond neighbor's child Rachel get off the bus and right behind her is Aidan!! I could have cried, I think I did, I was so happy!! Aidan now has 3 different labels, tags, & necklaces stapled to him from his teacher to make sure he got on the right bus. I knew they would not be making that mistake with me twice. We walk home and Aidan tells me about his day. I ask if he played outside, If he ate all of his lunch I packed him, He tells me he's hungry for hot dogs and Doritos. No problem! Whatever my baby wants today, I call daddy to let him know he made it home ok. Aidan is happy, he says he likes school and can't wait for tomorrow. I thank Rachel so much for helping Aidan, & we walk home. Skylar is so happy to have her big brother home again to play with.
Kindergarten DAY 1 (this is a long one)
I wake up really early on Monday (6:30ish) although I had not slept very well the night before, being very nervous. Today was the big day. I woke up Aidan and told him it's time for school, he said "again?" I smiled and said yes Aidan, everyday, 5 days a week for the next 13 years (plus college). He turns over and puts the pillow over his head. :) He gets up and I let him pick out one of his new outfits we just got him. He's excited, so I'm excited! Today is daddy's last day of vacation so we could all drive him to school and take him to his classroom. The school is only 5-10 minutes away but we leave at least 30 min before school starts because I'm sure there would be traffic. We get there & have to make a parking spot off road in a field with every other Kindergarten parent wanting to walk their child to their classroom. I keep telling Aidan, so you remember where your classroom is? I get a blank look. Oh brother (mental forehead slap) He's 5 and has NEVER been on any school grounds before. This is all VERY new to him, and I'm sure for a lot of other parents as well.
We walk him to his classroom only to find that the light is off and no one is inside the classroom. After a few minutes of standing there puzzled, someone walks by and informs us that all children must go to the multi-purpose room (inside the lunch room) where they will meet their teachers & walk back to the classrooms with them. I'm upset. No one told me this. Is this just today for the first day? Is this everyday? This was important information I think I should have. I showed Aidan where to find his classroom from the bus ramp not to the lunch room. Plus I had a vision of walking him to his classroom and showing him his cubby hole & where to put his backpack. I wanted to peer in through my glass window. Now I'm sad. (I grab a few quick photos of Aidan and of Aidan with his sister and daddy in front of his classroom door) Then we head off to the lunchroom. Aidan is now sitting with a group of children in his class with his teacher. I'm trying to get her attention to give her some of the paperwork I filled out and tell her I only have paper folders, no plastic. :( It is very crowded and loud, very chaotic. Parents are lined up against the walls with cameras waiting to see their kids walk by. We take our position along a wall, so I can wave goodbye (trying not to cry). I look up and I barely see his teacher walking out of a doorway on the other side of the room and disappear. I missed it. My baby has gone to school and I missed it. Apparently there is another doorway to the classrooms on the other side of the lunchroom and the Kindergartners are so small I never saw them get up and leave. Now I'm not sad, I'm sick to my stomach. This morning has not gone to plan. But I'm ok, he's going to be ok. We walk slowly out to the car and I check to make sure my phone is on the loudest ringer possible.
And now we wait. I try to do laundry and play with Skylar and make lunch, but the clock is always on my mind. I wonder all day what he's doing at that moment of the day in school. I check my phone a million times and say to daddy "well I haven't gotten a phone call yet so he must be ok". We are letting him ride the bus home today so he can get use to it early. Both of my sisters show up so we can all walk down to the bus stop with our cameras, I must document everything! The bus doesn't come for another 20 minutes but I'm too anxious to wait any longer, I'll just walk really slow past the next 4 houses to his bus stop.
3:37 and I see it. Wow that is one of the larger buses. I watch & wait as all of these children get off the bus and then the last one walks off the bus. I have a sick feeling in my stomach again. I walk up to the bus driver and look down the aisle of the bus, this is the last bus stop, there are no more kids on the bus. I frantically ask her where my little 5 year old is? And she asks me his name & tells me to call the school, he might have gotten on the wrong bus. I'm beyond words!!! I'm crying, I want to puke and punch something all in one emotion. We all run back to the house while I'm trying to get through to his school. It is busy. I get a busy signal the entire way to the school. We run into the front office and there is about 10 other parents wanting to know where their children are as well. I see daddy cracking his knuckles in anger and Maybe one of us is leaving here today in a cop car. We tell the lady at the front desk who is already making phone calls to the bus dispatch, Aidan's name & description. She can't pronounce his name over the phone and instead of spelling it just says "Aidan G...Whatever" I want this lady's job for this! Other frantic parents one by one in the next 90 minutes get confirmation that their children are on the wrong buses also and the bus drivers are bringing them back to the school (my eyes are tearing up now remembering this)We still haven't located Aidan. He could have been on the wrong bus, he could have gotten off ANY bus stop with any children and be in ANY neighborhood in Orlando. I want my child found and then I want some freaking answers!!! My biggest fear has come true. His teacher tried to speak to me about how sorry she is this has happened and I'm sure he's ok. I can't even look at her and she knows I'm beyond furious. My next call is the sheriffs department. Ironically as I'm thinking this a sheriff walks into the front office looking for a child as well. Apparently a working mother was told by her babysitter that her child never arrived at the bus stop either so she just called the police. The same lady making the phone calls about my child earlier that couldn't say his name correctly laughed and said "HaHa must be a first time mom, she should have never called the cops and given us a chance to at least find her kid first" I'm floored again! Lady she gave you the first chance when you lost him! It took every ounce of strength to not punch that lady and I'm not a physical person.
Finally after about 2 hours we get confirmation that Aidan is on a bus headed back to the school.
I'm now wanting answers. Was this not the questions I asked on Thursday? Was I not reassured that this would never happen? What happened to the bus driver checking wrist bands? What happened to the adults stationed outside to make sure every child gets home safely on the correct bus? What about the other child he was to be paired up with that rides his bus? A young blond girl with a walkie talkie (apparently it was her job along with another group of adults) comments "well it is chaotic, there are lots of children riding the buses and we cannot possibly check them all) I'm thinking how about the Kindergartners and the First graders? Or is that just too much to ask of a public school? All of us waiting parents are told that a new better system will be in effect tomorrow and that this won't happen again. They needed to "work out some kinks" I'm sorry why are there kinks? it is not a new school. Didn't they have kids ride buses last year? I'm done. I'm considering home schooling as we walk a scared little boy out to the car. He apologizes for getting lost, he says he's sad & that it was his fault. I hug him and reassure him that in no way possible was it his fault. He's 5.
We walk him to his classroom only to find that the light is off and no one is inside the classroom. After a few minutes of standing there puzzled, someone walks by and informs us that all children must go to the multi-purpose room (inside the lunch room) where they will meet their teachers & walk back to the classrooms with them. I'm upset. No one told me this. Is this just today for the first day? Is this everyday? This was important information I think I should have. I showed Aidan where to find his classroom from the bus ramp not to the lunch room. Plus I had a vision of walking him to his classroom and showing him his cubby hole & where to put his backpack. I wanted to peer in through my glass window. Now I'm sad. (I grab a few quick photos of Aidan and of Aidan with his sister and daddy in front of his classroom door) Then we head off to the lunchroom. Aidan is now sitting with a group of children in his class with his teacher. I'm trying to get her attention to give her some of the paperwork I filled out and tell her I only have paper folders, no plastic. :( It is very crowded and loud, very chaotic. Parents are lined up against the walls with cameras waiting to see their kids walk by. We take our position along a wall, so I can wave goodbye (trying not to cry). I look up and I barely see his teacher walking out of a doorway on the other side of the room and disappear. I missed it. My baby has gone to school and I missed it. Apparently there is another doorway to the classrooms on the other side of the lunchroom and the Kindergartners are so small I never saw them get up and leave. Now I'm not sad, I'm sick to my stomach. This morning has not gone to plan. But I'm ok, he's going to be ok. We walk slowly out to the car and I check to make sure my phone is on the loudest ringer possible.
And now we wait. I try to do laundry and play with Skylar and make lunch, but the clock is always on my mind. I wonder all day what he's doing at that moment of the day in school. I check my phone a million times and say to daddy "well I haven't gotten a phone call yet so he must be ok". We are letting him ride the bus home today so he can get use to it early. Both of my sisters show up so we can all walk down to the bus stop with our cameras, I must document everything! The bus doesn't come for another 20 minutes but I'm too anxious to wait any longer, I'll just walk really slow past the next 4 houses to his bus stop.
3:37 and I see it. Wow that is one of the larger buses. I watch & wait as all of these children get off the bus and then the last one walks off the bus. I have a sick feeling in my stomach again. I walk up to the bus driver and look down the aisle of the bus, this is the last bus stop, there are no more kids on the bus. I frantically ask her where my little 5 year old is? And she asks me his name & tells me to call the school, he might have gotten on the wrong bus. I'm beyond words!!! I'm crying, I want to puke and punch something all in one emotion. We all run back to the house while I'm trying to get through to his school. It is busy. I get a busy signal the entire way to the school. We run into the front office and there is about 10 other parents wanting to know where their children are as well. I see daddy cracking his knuckles in anger and Maybe one of us is leaving here today in a cop car. We tell the lady at the front desk who is already making phone calls to the bus dispatch, Aidan's name & description. She can't pronounce his name over the phone and instead of spelling it just says "Aidan G...Whatever" I want this lady's job for this! Other frantic parents one by one in the next 90 minutes get confirmation that their children are on the wrong buses also and the bus drivers are bringing them back to the school (my eyes are tearing up now remembering this)We still haven't located Aidan. He could have been on the wrong bus, he could have gotten off ANY bus stop with any children and be in ANY neighborhood in Orlando. I want my child found and then I want some freaking answers!!! My biggest fear has come true. His teacher tried to speak to me about how sorry she is this has happened and I'm sure he's ok. I can't even look at her and she knows I'm beyond furious. My next call is the sheriffs department. Ironically as I'm thinking this a sheriff walks into the front office looking for a child as well. Apparently a working mother was told by her babysitter that her child never arrived at the bus stop either so she just called the police. The same lady making the phone calls about my child earlier that couldn't say his name correctly laughed and said "HaHa must be a first time mom, she should have never called the cops and given us a chance to at least find her kid first" I'm floored again! Lady she gave you the first chance when you lost him! It took every ounce of strength to not punch that lady and I'm not a physical person.
Finally after about 2 hours we get confirmation that Aidan is on a bus headed back to the school.
I'm now wanting answers. Was this not the questions I asked on Thursday? Was I not reassured that this would never happen? What happened to the bus driver checking wrist bands? What happened to the adults stationed outside to make sure every child gets home safely on the correct bus? What about the other child he was to be paired up with that rides his bus? A young blond girl with a walkie talkie (apparently it was her job along with another group of adults) comments "well it is chaotic, there are lots of children riding the buses and we cannot possibly check them all) I'm thinking how about the Kindergartners and the First graders? Or is that just too much to ask of a public school? All of us waiting parents are told that a new better system will be in effect tomorrow and that this won't happen again. They needed to "work out some kinks" I'm sorry why are there kinks? it is not a new school. Didn't they have kids ride buses last year? I'm done. I'm considering home schooling as we walk a scared little boy out to the car. He apologizes for getting lost, he says he's sad & that it was his fault. I hug him and reassure him that in no way possible was it his fault. He's 5.
Prepping For Kindergarten
One week ago today was "meet the teacher" day for all new Kindergartners. It is my intention to write this everyday to help other mothers who's children will be going to kindergarten, or who's children also started this year. It has been such a crazy week that I'm already a week behind...so here goes!
Meet the teacher has become a "drop off your supplies to the teacher" day and grab your mountain of forms to fill out & leave day. Nothing against my son's teacher, she seemed nice enough, but I remember growing up in a small-ish town outside of Orlando and my teacher got to meet every parent and child. Now it has become to impersonal. My child is Aidan and she called hm Jake, already a bad sign. I couldn't ask her very many questions, she was too busy handing out paperwork & instructing the parents on how to fill them out properly because "protocol" is very important to them. I looked around and wondered if I was the only sane parent there. My son Aidan is 5 and has never been in Pre-K, and was in daycare for about 6 months when he was 2. I've been home with him and his 2 year old sister since she was born.
I think Aidan had to have been the only "first timer" to Kindergarten because no one asked any questions. On his school supplies list was 4 specific color "plastic" thin folder with prongs. I of course bought paper. She instructed me that they do not last as long and need to replace them with plastic. Apparently Super Target does not carry these & Walgreens sold out, so this will be continued this Saturday when I scour Wal-mart, CVS, K-mart maybe even Home Depot until these mysterious folders are found. Heaven forbid he just uses $.07 paper folders.
My largest concern was how does he find his bus in the afternoon? I was assured a billion times by his teacher that bus riders are dismissed first, and taken to the outside bus area where he is paired up with another child from the same bus. Also he will be wearing a bright yellow wrist band with his name, address, phone number, teacher, & bus "animal" (we'll get to that later). Every bus driver will be checking wrist bands to make sure the children make it on the right buses. I'm not convinced. She passes over me to hand out more papers to parents still walking in. I ask about cubby holes and what time is lunch (10:30am), is there a bathroom in the classroom & where is it, what is their day like? Do they have P.E. or play ground time everyday? Where are the water fountains? What happens if he has a potty accident (my child is a picky eater & therefore prone to constipation)-we will also address this later. I looked like the typical first time worried mother who was letting her baby go for the first time and needed reassurance. An hour and 1/2 flew by and I still have at least 10 more questions that I was still trying to remember. We were the last family to leave. Aidan was playing with some children in the corner with all of the cool toys and he was happy so I let everything else go, this could work and I'm worrying for nothing. This is a school that has been open for awhile, His teacher had been teacher for 10 years, I'm worrying too much. So we leave after getting a car pass just in case we want to pick him up one day with all of the other car riders, we walk around the school showing Aidan where the cafeteria is, the library, his classroom, & why he is not allowed to go wondering up the stairs. (this is a 2 story elementary school!) Aidan seems REALLY interested in these stairs and what is up them. I now have a new concern. He's a boy. He's 5. Is anyone going to be patrolling the stairs to make sure curious Kindergartners don't go wandering around the school?
SO we leave anxious and terrified that Monday morning will be that tearful crazy morning when I walk him to his classroom and watch him find his desk/chair at a table, Meet & greet all of these other children in his class. Peeping in through a sliver of glass window on the door so he doesn't see me. I'm going to try hard not to cry Monday, Or Puke.
Meet the teacher has become a "drop off your supplies to the teacher" day and grab your mountain of forms to fill out & leave day. Nothing against my son's teacher, she seemed nice enough, but I remember growing up in a small-ish town outside of Orlando and my teacher got to meet every parent and child. Now it has become to impersonal. My child is Aidan and she called hm Jake, already a bad sign. I couldn't ask her very many questions, she was too busy handing out paperwork & instructing the parents on how to fill them out properly because "protocol" is very important to them. I looked around and wondered if I was the only sane parent there. My son Aidan is 5 and has never been in Pre-K, and was in daycare for about 6 months when he was 2. I've been home with him and his 2 year old sister since she was born.
I think Aidan had to have been the only "first timer" to Kindergarten because no one asked any questions. On his school supplies list was 4 specific color "plastic" thin folder with prongs. I of course bought paper. She instructed me that they do not last as long and need to replace them with plastic. Apparently Super Target does not carry these & Walgreens sold out, so this will be continued this Saturday when I scour Wal-mart, CVS, K-mart maybe even Home Depot until these mysterious folders are found. Heaven forbid he just uses $.07 paper folders.
My largest concern was how does he find his bus in the afternoon? I was assured a billion times by his teacher that bus riders are dismissed first, and taken to the outside bus area where he is paired up with another child from the same bus. Also he will be wearing a bright yellow wrist band with his name, address, phone number, teacher, & bus "animal" (we'll get to that later). Every bus driver will be checking wrist bands to make sure the children make it on the right buses. I'm not convinced. She passes over me to hand out more papers to parents still walking in. I ask about cubby holes and what time is lunch (10:30am), is there a bathroom in the classroom & where is it, what is their day like? Do they have P.E. or play ground time everyday? Where are the water fountains? What happens if he has a potty accident (my child is a picky eater & therefore prone to constipation)-we will also address this later. I looked like the typical first time worried mother who was letting her baby go for the first time and needed reassurance. An hour and 1/2 flew by and I still have at least 10 more questions that I was still trying to remember. We were the last family to leave. Aidan was playing with some children in the corner with all of the cool toys and he was happy so I let everything else go, this could work and I'm worrying for nothing. This is a school that has been open for awhile, His teacher had been teacher for 10 years, I'm worrying too much. So we leave after getting a car pass just in case we want to pick him up one day with all of the other car riders, we walk around the school showing Aidan where the cafeteria is, the library, his classroom, & why he is not allowed to go wondering up the stairs. (this is a 2 story elementary school!) Aidan seems REALLY interested in these stairs and what is up them. I now have a new concern. He's a boy. He's 5. Is anyone going to be patrolling the stairs to make sure curious Kindergartners don't go wandering around the school?
SO we leave anxious and terrified that Monday morning will be that tearful crazy morning when I walk him to his classroom and watch him find his desk/chair at a table, Meet & greet all of these other children in his class. Peeping in through a sliver of glass window on the door so he doesn't see me. I'm going to try hard not to cry Monday, Or Puke.
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