He's moved from level 2 to level 3!! You should have seen the boy swim with a life jacket! He can really do it! He's so funny. Just getting more and more independent - till it comes to getting dressed, putting on shoes, picking up toys - you know the stuff you WANT him to do!!!
I helped in k-garten again yesterday - gave tests about shapes and letters. I was SHOCKED at how many don't know they're shapes - square, circle, rectangle, triangle!!! I just figured that was a gimme. And it's not the "low income" (of which our school is 35%) it's kids with very NICE clothes and expensive toys and such. Makes me sad. But Mrs C was excited to see that so many of them had improved on their letter sounds.
The *gifted* boy was complemented as to knowing everything - the very thing that drives me crazy. Mrs C said she's very glad to have him because he helps the others so much. (I tried to impress upon her that I would volunteer even if she thought my kid to be a monster) :-) He is a totally different kid in class. And he's so wanting to read tries to "read" by pictures all the time.
S has been having a tough time as of 2:30 ev afternoon. At group yesterday (I have group too - with the Mom's) I asked about medication that the kids were on. They all seemed to think that some meds would help her outbursts. They've all had amazing luck with their kids' ticks and meds. We had a new lady there with her little boy and she took it upon herself to give her opinion of medication - and without anyone even asking. Thought people were medicating their children too much. N gave her an earful - not sure she'll want to come back. :-) Of course her child "isn't bad enough" for spec needs class. I took that as a personal insult and I think it ruffled some other feathers.
Group is funny - we're the "Old Girls" <- What Sharon - the owner calls us. And even though I'm kind of the newbie (they were all together last winter) we still all kind of click. I'm also the only one from the "south" - they're all from up north more. What I find kind of interesting is that none of us get up to look in the therapy room at all. The smaller kids' Mom's are constanly coming back and checking the window - to the point that they're annoying. They even seem to have this air about them that they're the only ones going through this. In our group it seems SO much more laid back - so much more - "welcome, pull up a chair, we've all been there" :-) Even the kids have no problem expressing to each other what bugs them about the other. :-) But yet they care about each other and HAVE to know where the others are if they're absent. It was the kids that told us that D wouldn't be returning. Anyway - Thursdays are really shaping up to be a huge support and educational group to me. Not to mention getting to play with C who is almost 1 year old. I miss that, sometimes.
Back to k-garten. I have the very best of both worlds - I really do - I get to help out with the kids AND work in the real world. I couldn't have picked it better. I really love working with the kids. They are so funny. They're a lot like a box full of puppies. They all need to be told several times what they're supposed to do and honestly, it wouldn't hurt to have an aide in the classroom all the time, to keep those "drifters" on task.
I wonder about that - why some kids seem to be "drifters" (always looking around the room - never really on task) and some kids are always at full attention and watching the teacher like a hawk. J, it seems, is a hawk. He can tell me exactly what happened in class and how to do everything that they talk about. And even when I'm in the room - he's still got his eyes glued to Mrs C. I have to remember when school gets to be real work for him and we start to have problems to look back at this entry and laugh at what a sap I was. :-)
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