Jesse's teacher (Miss Dana) called this week and talked to Josh. She said that Jesse is the greatest kids ever at school and his enthusiasm is contagious, yada yada yada, but there's just one little thing. There's one other kid that ADORES Jesse and follows him around all the time and it drives Jesse crazy. They are working with this other kid (he's a special kid) but you know, it takes some time, so she was hoping we could talk to him about trying to be patient or at least going talk to the teacher when he's frustrated.
Josh and I of course think this is hilarious, seeing as when he's home, he generally spends most of his time following one or both of us around. We tried to explain to Jesse that when he follows us around, he likes it when we're nice to him right, so he should be nice to his friend. He didn't really get it, but did agree to try.
Oh, and we asked why the other kid frustrates him, and he says because he sits in the wrong seat at circle. In other words, he doesn't follow the "rules" - oy my kids! He still wakes up every morning SO excited to go to school though, and Miss Dana says he checks the board every morning first thing to see if the schedule says they are going outside that day.
Jocelyn used the bathroom at kindergarten for the first time this week. I guess she had forgotten where it was so didn't want to use it, but Thursday she really had to so she had to ask the teacher where it was. It was traumatic enough that she actually talked about it when she got home.
Jocelyn's class has library once a week or so. She never brings home a book. I asked why didn't she bring home a book and she said she didn't want to. After much back and forth and confusion I finally got it out of her that she's afraid that she'll forget to take it back to school. I assume the librarian must have given them all the fear of god for not returning a book, so now she doesn't want to borrow one for fear she'll forget to return it.
One day this week I asked Jocelyn what she did at school. "I'll tell you what I did at school," she says, "but I don't want to tell you what I did on the bus." Much coaxing later, turns out she was kneeling on the bus instead of sitting and the bus driver told her to sit down. She almost cried telling me.
I'm meeting with Morgan's teacher on Friday to start talking about what will happen next year. She will be biased to keeping him in the SW school system I'm sure, and maybe that's the best thing (it's certainly most convenient!) but I have questions as to how the routine and curriculum will actually work in middle school for him.
Timothy had the first school dance of the season this past Friday. It was actually "activity night", so not just dancing but there was a movie in the auditorium and there was bowling and some other games. He had a good time as usual and apparently slow danced with 6 girls at the same time.
Jeremy came for a visit this weekend and I'm not sure the kids let him have a quiet thought the whole time he was here! They were all over him, which was just super cute.
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