Anyone else’s first day of school today? | Autism PDD

Day number two.

Three of his girl classmates came up to him and wanted to play chase. That made me so happy. This has always been a favorite activity for him and the girls, and I wasn't sure if they'd want to keep doing it now that they're big 4th graders, especially after yesterday's general aloofness. But they still like it!

Apparently they wanted to call me yesterday because she was having a meltdown about wanting to use the computer. It was a little frustrating to hear that because it was ok during the summer because she had no aide but now that she does I feel they need to help her learn to self calm and not rely on me to drop everything and come to the school.

BTW even though the aide seems very nice she is not trained in autism and she barely speaks English.

She had a rough start but I really think it's already helping her language.

I'm just wanting them to focus on behaviors such as sitting and attending to tasks and listening.

I had a brief conversation with the ESE specialist but I have know idea if she knows anything about autism. We'll see....
Turtle39315.2682407407

we go back a week from wed....

we meet next tues with sped teacher and 5th grade for a 'pre-meet'...

should go fine...i hope!

Glad to hear it went smoothly! Hope he makes lots of new friends this year! Hopefully things settle down quickly and the other classmates pay more attention to his social interactions!

Mason started something called Jumpstart to 1st grade today. It is just a week long class to prepare him for first grade. His 1st grade teacher is the teacher that is doing the class. I'm very excited (and nervous) to see how the first day went. He gets done at 11:30. We did have a little mix up with some paper work for his seizure medication but I'm staying positive that this was an iscolated incident and not a precursor for things to come!! (We had a bad year of school last year! Lots of problems with his old school.)

Our actual first day of school is the Tuesday after Labor Day here, too.

B was supposed to start today, but since we don't have an IEP in place yet, he will wait. I'm calling the school board back Wednesday morning to find out what day and time for the meeting.My dd started her first day of K last Wednesday. Wednesday and Friday went great. Thursday her teacher got to experience two small meltdowns. Her teacher said it was fine once she calmed dd down. One of them was over dd simply spilling a little of her drink.

Dd's services start this week and then we have to have an IEP soon since we moved counties recently.

So far, I am really happy with the kindergarten teacher dd got. I think she is a good fit for Abby.
Today was ours too. We met Nikolas' teacher out front, she took him by the hand and he went with her to his room and didn't look back for me once, I took Andrew to his across from Nikolas. Andrew was fine until he figured out I was leaving, then he cried and screamed and tried to run after me. Leaving him was really hard, I wanted to scoop him up and take him home. I hope he calmed down quickly. I don't want him to hate school. I checked in quickly in Nikolas' room before I left to make sure he had setted and he was playing with some toy, the aide said he didn't seem to be missing anyone and came in like he had always been going there. Wow. I kind of was expecting the opposite. Andrew became very attached to me this summer though. It did reinforce for me that picking them up at 11:30 is probably the right decision. Linda1156739314.2934953704

Today was my son's first day back at school. He's in 4th grade. Here's how it went:

+ He waited in line outside his classroom, which he had big problems with in first and second grade (it wasn't part of his class' routine in third grade).

+ He found his new coat hook without help.

+ His new assistant commented at the end of the day that my son is very polite, and that she heard from his old assistant that I do a great job with my son.

- When my son tried to initiate contact with his classmates, they didn't pay much attention. Granted, it was the first day of school and they were excited and distracted, and my son didn't always make sure they had his attention before he talked, but I felt like hey, where are THEIR social skills! I felt like if it was their best friend talking, it would have caught their attention, but it's somehow okay to ignore my son. This makes me think that social skills training for him won't be enough. Something needs to be done to build his relationship to his classmates and to make them more receptive to him.

My youngest son had his very first day of school, too. Since the tradition is that all the parents join the kids on their very first day of school, they limit that first day to two hours. He did well, but I think it will be a challenge for him to pick up verbal instructions. All the kids were supposed to trace their hands and write their name on the hand for the class poster, but he wanted to do his own thing -- maybe because he didn't pay attention to the teacher's instructions and just thought it was me telling him what to do again.

Anyhow, if anyone else had a first day today, how did it go?

NorwayMom39314.212662037Glad to hear everything went well on the first day. My kids don't go back until after Labor Day weekend - 2 weeks left to go! My kids don't go back for two weeks either. I am not worried about the little ones. But Adam is going to Middle/Highschool setting this year. I am already stressing. I will let everyone know how it goes. Mine went back a week ago. Ok, had problems with walking in line (going to get help for that). She was glade to see someone she new. Mine started today...bus didn't show this morning...drove him to school - was a COMPLETE circus...still on hold (30 minutes ) to get ahold of transportation to confirm the route they gave me Saturday. ERRRR!! I hate the schools here.

Ours was last week and both of my kids had a great first week back which just thrilled me to no end.

I just got home a little while ago from dropping her off this morning. If was pretty chaotic but it went well. She was very happy and excited to get back to school even though she has a cold. She has an aide this year but the aide has had no training yet so I typed up a list for her of things to work on and some strategies to help. She has a boy in her class from her previous 2yrs at autistic preschool so she knows someone even though I don't think it mattered much to her. I will be keeping in close contact with the teacher and the aide so we'll see how this year progresses. It's going to be a hard start because she doesn't want to sit for very long and likes to explore everything. I'll report back this PM.

Wow, looks like everyone's off to a great start. I'm keeping a good outlook, but preparing for the worst too. Luke starts second grade Monday, new school, new IEP team,etc...he hates school,,so we've been making little field trips over to the school, reading social stories, reading books about how fun school is etc...He had a rough kindergarten and first grade, so I'm hoping this year is his great year...(thinking lots of postive thoughts)..

I hope everyone has a good helping of happiness this school year.

kelly

Quinn stasts on Sept. 4th. He's going into 4th grade this year. i have a good feeling about this coming school year because he will have the same aide and I got to meet his teacher and see the classroom on the day after school got out in June. I am thinking positive thoughts for this year!