Cuddling with Daddy Monday morning
Ayson practicing kicking the soccer ball Monday night while Addie is looking up at the apples in the tree.
Ayson had fun playing with Daddy and Gianna
Mmm, apples!
Addie was the only child at Linda's this week so Linda took Addie on "outings." They went to a local diner where Addie ate more than Linda :)
The girls also went to McDonald's and the "big park"
Soccer practice is Wednesday at 6 pm (we found out at 5 pm that night) so we did a quick dinner and then went to soccer practice. Ayson took a bit of convincing and bribing...Mommy stated if Ayson tried soccer ONE more time that we could go to Sweeties after practice IF Sweeties was open. Mommy was counting on Sweeties being closed. Luckily, Mommy had $5 cash on her for two kiddie portions of ice cream because Sweeties is open until 8 pm and does not take credit card:)
Addie smiling for Mommy from the bleachers
Ayson had fun this time around. He did fall once or twice but got right back up and kept playing. He even stated that he had fun and wants to play again...yay! Good job, Big Guy!
On Thursday, Mommy played a game with 4th-6th graders from Cortland county for Conservation Fields Days. The kids played the part of a bird and had to take their chance at migrating to their winter habitat. Migration is risky business and not everyone makes it! The kids love the game as they have to hop around, crawl, hold their head (hit a window) or tummy (bad food), flap their "wings", or tip toe away from predators (cats).
Thursday night was Curriculum night and Linda came over to watch the kiddos while Mommy and Daddy learned what Ayson will be doing this school year.
The class has 2 calendars: one for the days of the week and a second that counts the 1st 100 days of school. So everyday, the kids are counting and looking at patterns (which picture goes next in the pattern). Each day there are class line leaders, calendar leader, and a special agent (runs errands for the teacher).
As of Thursday, the kids were working on the sight words "I" and "can" and the words can be seen to the right of the picture.
A class picture was taken and hangs in the room. Ayson is in the top row on the right.
The class schedule. The Pre-K and K kids get together in the afternoons at least 2 days a week and sing songs together...how fun is that!
The Kindergarten curriculum. Mommy tore off the bottom portion to leave a note in Ayson's Activity packet reading "We love (with a heart) you, Mommy and Daddy" (all words that he knows).
I wondered last year how Ayson did, behavior-wise, day to day and now I can get a better idea with the Kindergarten class management plan. Each day the students start out with a clip on green and if the guidelines are not followed, they 1st get a verbal warning, 2nd time (Mrs Long stated the kids are given multiple warnings before yellow...at least in the beginning of the school year) they get the clip moved to yellow, then blue, and finally red with steeper consequences each time. At the end of the school day, the kids color in the block on the monthly calendar (that goes home each night in their folders) with whatever behavior color they ended up with. Ayson was not listening and was talking and he explained that is why he got yellow on Wednesday.
Ayson colored a picture of himself for his locker. Check out the blue eyes with darker blue pupil. He drew the dog "Frankenweenie" on his shirt and that is why his clothes are black, gray, and blue...to go with the movie. Ayson pointed out to Mommy that he drew a black, gray, yellow rainbow above the picture of Frankenweenie. This year, he loves Friday night pizza night (we ALL do :), his favorite color is orange, and he can play on the tire swing all by himself (the other disc swing on the fort was hard for Ayson to get on)
On Saturday, A^4 went for a walk at Pratts Falls to check on the milk weed crop (we love to shake the milk weed seed pods in the wind. The milk weed was not ready but we had fun looking at bugs, trees, plants, and leaves.
A catapillar all balled up
A massive (and cool) tree.
Of course the kids loved the swings
Popping the jewel weed seed pods
More playground equipment fun on the way back from our walk
Daddy and Ayson had to use the potty, so Mommy and Addie walked ahead because Addie is slower. Addie wanted to hide behind a tree and wait for Daddy and Ayson to walk by so that we could scare them. She jumped the gun and came out of hiding too soon but she had fun.
Addie was tuckered out and wanted a nap Saturday afternoon!
On Sunday, Grandpa Chuck (who is enjoying retirement) came over to watch the Giants play (sorry, Daddy and Grandpa) and stayed the night. Mommy will be sure to take pictures in the morning of Grandpa waiting with Ayson for the bus.
A picture Ayson drew of Friday Night Pizza Night...from his perspective. Mommy will try and give a description from left to right: a hummingbird outside, the fridge and cupboards, Mommy and Addie, a hummingbird (at the feeder), Ayson's chair knocked over on the ground, the table (with ham pizza on it) and 2 chairs, Daddy, Ayson (he is standing on a bench), the kitchen sink...check it out, he even has the faucet dripping water (which it does when the faucet is not turned off all of the way :)
Math: Mrs Long stated the kids were doing module 2 first and then working module 1 (numbers 1-10) in as they go.
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