Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Kindergarten! The saga continues...
Week one, a success! Granted, it was only three days long, but the fact is everyone managed to mostly be where they were supposed to be, and back again. Zachary has concurred that a return on Monday is likely (and, he pointed out, required if he understood things correctly. Which he has).
PS? I want to go to kindergarten. It sounds kind of fantastic.
UT elementary has breakfast and lunch for the students. So far Zachary is only dabbling in lunch, although already I think figuring out the cafeteria is a bit brave. They've got a vegetarian option for the mains every day, which is beyond fantastic. And he's eating it. I will have to write Chef Mario a thank you note.
They also do two "specials" a day. They alternate - one day they have PE & multicultural arts, the next day they have STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) and Wellness. This week in wellness they dug up the garden to start planting in their plot, and in STEAM they had building stations (Tinker toys, legos, etc.). Did I mention it sounds like fun?
Zachary asked me on the second day when they would start "Real Math". I asked what he meant. He said he didn't want patterns, and matching, and counting, but doing math with pencils and like that.
Heh. Soon enough, I suspect.
After his first day, I asked him what his favorite part of school had been. He had just stumbled bleary eyed into the car (the day is long - 7:30am-3:30pm, and clearly working hard to figure out all the new things.). "Nap time. I was *so* tired."
*grin*
We'll see how long that lasts.
PS? I want to go to kindergarten. It sounds kind of fantastic.
UT elementary has breakfast and lunch for the students. So far Zachary is only dabbling in lunch, although already I think figuring out the cafeteria is a bit brave. They've got a vegetarian option for the mains every day, which is beyond fantastic. And he's eating it. I will have to write Chef Mario a thank you note.
They also do two "specials" a day. They alternate - one day they have PE & multicultural arts, the next day they have STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) and Wellness. This week in wellness they dug up the garden to start planting in their plot, and in STEAM they had building stations (Tinker toys, legos, etc.). Did I mention it sounds like fun?
Zachary asked me on the second day when they would start "Real Math". I asked what he meant. He said he didn't want patterns, and matching, and counting, but doing math with pencils and like that.
Heh. Soon enough, I suspect.
After his first day, I asked him what his favorite part of school had been. He had just stumbled bleary eyed into the car (the day is long - 7:30am-3:30pm, and clearly working hard to figure out all the new things.). "Nap time. I was *so* tired."
*grin*
We'll see how long that lasts.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Kindergarten
Z's first day went well. He was zonked after school, but had lots of stories to tell us.
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