That is so great! You must be so proud and relieved!
I'm glad it went well. Your girls are sure good at telling you about their day.
Wow Thats great Fred,I hope things go that well for my ds,he starts NT kindergarten Tuesday ,(With an Aid).
God bless,Linda
Wahhooo! Glad to hear it is going well,
Fred, and keep us up on them!
... and see MY post, about First Grade, for us! Hopefully this is what YOU have to look forward to! Most of it, at least ...
I'll be curious to hear about the teacher's opinion on the girls.
Thanks, well - the meet the teacher day was today, and I didn't get much out of their mother (she tends not to remember details and gets annoyed when I press for details) but, basically, the school counseler said that Abigail "was stubborn" (she did say it with a smile apparently, though). Evie did "ok". That's about all of the feedback I got from the teacher meeting. We are scheduling 1:1 with each of their teachers for asap, so hopefully we'll learn more then.Hi fred,
Sounds like things went well. Just one thing it maybe to soon to get the teachers to tell you alot about the girls regarding school. They need to more exposure to them as the school year goes on. Just a thought.
We start next week, I hope we have the same results as you did:-)
Fred,
I am sooooo glad that your girls had a pretty good day! For some reason I cried reading your post. Your girls are soooo lucky to have such a caring father (and mother). I hope they have all good days!
It sounded like it went very well, lunchbox fiascos not withstandingKeep good thoughts coming our way as ds' first day of school is Tuesday! We have open house tonight and I'm nervous since ds is not acting anywhere near his best behavior!
fred - YUP! He starts kindergarten - we held him out a year. So, my heart goes out the door on Tuesday morning at 7:45!Couldnt go any better than that Fred:)
Very excellent indeed..I had to get a teacher to help get Sarah out of my car this morning..crying and telling me she would just miss me too bad to go to school..(first time for this) and I had to bite my lip and contain my tears and keep from just taking her home with me:) She was all smiles by time she got to class..she stated that first grade is so much fun and MUCH easier than kindergarten:))
It seems to have gone well. I was worried because, so far, their longest day of school has been 2.5 hours and kindergarten is full day around here and the girls are young - just turned five this week. As most of you know, they are in a regular class without an aid - flying without a net, so I was a little apprehensive about that (at developmental preschool, they're was a very low teacher/aid : student ratio, and the language therapist was often in the class, too, while the regular kindy class is like 22-25 kids with an assistent.
First, I liked the special ed bus. There's a bus driver shortage down here, I've been watching my son get on his bus and having to sit three to a seat with no seats up front, so that wouldn't be great for the girls. The special-ed bus looks like an airport van style limo with tinted windows, air conditioned, only 2-3 other kids on it (though they looked like they were 10-11 years old!). The bus driver was very friendly and there's an assistent on the bus. The girls showed no apprehension and ran right into the bus without hesitation.
Their mom called in around noon and the teacher said they were doing fine. They got a printed, form note home that said something like "I had a great day at school - ask me about my day!" - it wasn't hand written, so all the kids probably got one (whether they had a good day or not), who knows.
Anyway, as our kids aren't famous for their ability to recount long, arduous days at school, I'm not sure about everything that happened, but I have some tidbits.
Evie got to play with Mr. Potato Head and they both played at the "rice table"
They got to eat in the cafeteria and the cafeteria had muffins.
The teacher had sphagetti (Evie thought that was pretty funny for some reason).
Evie said that therere were one hundred teachers - there were SO MANY TEACHERS!
Abigail said that one of her friends got in trouble. His name is Aidan (just like our brother! There are TWO AIDANs Ha!) and he got in trouble because he "wouldn't lower his voice".
Evie said that the teacher told her that she didn't have to make any friends
Evie saw a boy with a DJ shirt (from Monster House).
Both girls say that they did not get in any trouble
The playground doesn't have any swings and it doesn't have a see-saw. They had fun on the slide, though.
Both girls said they liked it and said they wanted to go back.
They were obviously very tired when they got home, though. Evie had a huge, pathetic, teary crying jag because she left her lunch box at school and she thought that meant she wouldn't be able to have any food at school the next time.
Then, their mom mentioned that the safety pin that was holding their name tags on left a hole in their shirt, and Evie had another very sincere, sad, prolonged bout of crying because of that.
Abigail just wanted to grab her bug house and head outside to catch butterflies.
Good for them. My dd just turned 5 and started Kindergarten too. She is mainstreamed without an aide too. I was so, so, so nervous I barely slept the night before.
My dd is doing pretty good. She has been in school for about 3 weeks now. She says she loves school and surprised me yesterday asking me to not make her lunch, she wanted to buy it. I didnt think she was ready for that, but, she proved me wrong. She bought lunch again today:) She comes home singing songs and "teaching" me my numbers and letters:)
I do notice however that the kids talk a lot better than she does. They have really nice conversations that I know my dd cannot grasp. There were some bumpy moments when she threw sand and upset some kids, she had no idea why they were mad and now I am beginning to see "social problems." But, she learned from it and we are working on recognizing when kids get upset.
Other than that, I have a really good feeling about this year. I think she will come a long way. Your girls too:)
That's great Fred--all in all, sounded like a really good day. Love all theFred, that's awesome. Sounds like a great day.
The whole "recounting the day thing" is painful, especially for those of us that work. Last year the boys were in kindergarten and got off the bus around 12:30. I get home at 5:30. Whenever I asked the kids about the day, all they wanted to recount was what they did with their nanny in the afternoon. Now that they get home at 4:00ish, it's a little better because there isn't as much latency between them getting home and me getting home. It seems like kids like to talk about school right when they get home, and I miss that.
I feel the same, she can always repeat since she started so young. A little boy already had a birthday last week and he turned 6...it happens:)
Ashleigh really can pick things up fast from her peers, I think she will get it eventually:)
Kristy, I know! I don't what the problem is - I actually think my son doesn't like to recount the day. I think he thinks taht it;s just a pain when we start asking him about what he did and stuff, and he's seven! So, the girls aren't really doing that bad with it, really.
alwaysworried - exactly - our kids are thankfully learning from their environment now. I see it with my own eyes - how they're picking up on conversations around them, watching us teaching the other how to do something (and learning by proxy), etc. I think full immersion with a bunch of NT kids - most of whom are older with much more advanced language, can do a bunch of good - as long as they pay attention to the other kids and are included in their games and conversations, which is my only concern.