Kindergarten, in his words:
- how was your day? - "It was great!!" "It was awesome!!"
- "Mr. A. drew a picture of himself with his tongue sticking out and it made us laugh."
- "aaaa, aaaa, tree, aaaa, puppydog!"
- the rules: "Raise your hand. No running"
- what was the best part of the day? "Recess."
- what was the worst part of the day? (on a different day) "We had to play inside the gym instead of recess."
- "Nobody would push me on the swings."
- "We played vampires and I screamed and ran away from the girl!" Apparently the girl was the vampire.
- "I saw Conner at recess and gave him a high-five."
- "I was sooo starving!"
What I'm loving: his adorable grin at dismissal; his eagerness to show me his papers. After 3 unsuccessful days of trying to get him to tell me the name of the girl he sits by, I bribed him with chocolate. The first thing he told me at dismissal was, "Her name is Madison." As you can tell from his quotes the highlight of his day is recess - and I'm sure it will continue to be for the rest of the year. Payton is doing really well, he seems to really like school. He's happy in the morning, he's happy in the afternoon, and he's proud to show off what he learned in school.
Second grade, in his words:
- "Mrs. O. is my favorite teacher."
- "Nobody thought my sandwich was yucky." He makes his own sandwich for lunch and it's practically dripping with mustard (just the way he likes it). I told him, jokingly, that everyone at school is going to think his sandwich is yucky. Guess I was wrong.
- classmate Abby to Conner at the end of Wednesday: "Congratulations Conner for getting your stitches out."
- "Today we read Fantastic Mr. Fox and the farmer cut his tail off."
- "At 2 o'clock we got to draw a self-portrait." I'm mildly nervous because last year's self-portrait became a topic of discussion at parent-teacher conferences.
- "I love second recess because we get to play with the 4th graders."
- "Mrs. O. sets the temperature to 67 degrees and I love putting my face in front of the air."
- "We get to use markers this year!"
Conner took right to school & the routines with no problem. He knows all his classmates, he knows his teacher (he went to her for math last year), and the teachers all follow the same teaching method so there wasn't much of an adjustment. He was able to just dive right in.
Here's to a good school year!
