Tonight was Gillian’s art show. The boys stayed home to work on John’s book report, so it was just the girls. Gillian was so excited! We ran into her art teacher and she told me all about the projects they have worked on this year. Here are some of Gillian’s pieces.
Yesterday, Gillian and John told me all about Groundhog Day. John completely understood the concept of the groundhog predicting the weather. Gillian was a little confused. I got a video of her explaining what happens on Groundhog Day.
Gillian has a new classroom job this week. She told me yesterday “I never had this job before. I read the sight words!” Tonight she told me “I’m the sound checker at school. I use the eye stick to point at the words. The words are on a pocket chart.” I was confused. “What’s an… Continue reading Sound checker
Friday Gillian’s school had their first ever Kindergarten Music Concert. The kids have been practicing for months. Gillian has been home singing songs for weeks now (check out the lion sleeps tonight). The theme was “Old MacDonald Had a What?” The kids started out singing Old MacDonald and then replace a common farm animal… Continue reading Kindergarten Concert
Gillian has learned how to count by ten. If you ask her how she learned, she says “From Peg + Cat!” Peg + Cat is a new show that the kids found on Netflix. It’s about a little girl, Peg and her cat. It’s on PBS and the kids seem to really enjoy it. Anyway,… Continue reading counting
Over the past month and a half, Gillian has been having some problems at school and aftercare. She has been misbehaving and acting out. Our first response was to take away her favorite thing, her blanket (aka Manket). This didn’t make a difference in her attitude. So we changed strategies. We opted for a reward… Continue reading Reunited
Tonight, Gillian kept singing this little song. It went something like “follow directions quickly.” Later I heard her say “Rule number two.” Finally I got her to sit still long enough to sing the full song. Her art teacher made up these simple rules for her classroom. The song helped Gillian to remember. Very… Continue reading Classroom rules
Last week, Gillian’s school had their first fire drill. Her teacher had an entire lesson to go along with the fire drill. Gillian came home with this picture. I’m sure you have noticed that Gillian made a little modification to the picture. I asked her “Gillian, what’s on the kids’ heads?” She said “Tiaras!” Whew,… Continue reading Fire Drill
On Wednesday night, we had a back to school night for Gillian. It was an opportunity for us to meet teachers before school started. Gillian also got to come and meet her teacher, the kids in her class and learn how to buy lunch in the cafeteria. While we were there, Gillian’s teacher told us… Continue reading Rest Time
Today was the kids’ first day of school. Gillian started Kindergarten and John started 3rd grade. Our town passed full day kindergarten this year and in order to accommodate the additional kids, the schools got shifted. The schools historical had one for K to 3rd, one for 4 & 5 and one for 6, 7… Continue reading First Day
John and Gill went up a hill 