Sunday, September 18, 2011

Lexie's first day of school



Two weeks ago Lexie started preschool. This was her first day ever to go to school, so it was a bittersweet day. It was a little sad to see her move onto this next phase of her life. She seemed very ready to start school, she has wanted to go for about two years now. When I told her that she was going to school last year, the anticipation about killed her. Everyday she would ask if today was the day she was going.

She was not scared at all, she knew what and where she was going. She goes two days a week and absolutely loves going. Now she can't wait to stay for lunch bunch next year so she can stay and eat at school. I love to see that she is sooooo excited for school and loves going.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

School week 3

I am doing my first post on my iPhone, so hopefully there won't be too many mistakes. Well we are into the third week of school for the boys and they are still excited to go. It is weird to think that I have two in elementary and one in preschool, crazy. I need to post about Lex's first day of school.
It is interesting the difference between chan and spence in how they behave at school. Chan is a very active and stubborn personality( he must get that from Nate, right? ). But at school he is a very well behaved kid. I think in the last two years of school he got maybe 3 yellows and the rest of the time he was on green. Then you have spence that is a very talkative kid ALL the time. It does not matter where he is. We have been working on him listening when we ask him to do something, he is having the same problem at school. They have been in school not quite three weeks and he has moved his clip to yellow twice. Both for not listening, so if anyone has some helpful suggestions...they would be welcome. I have tried many different techniques with him and nothing seems to get through to him. He realizes what he is doing, but won't change. He is a pretty good kid, but just needs a little help with listening. I am going to try the reward system and take it one month at a time.