Hadlee started her year off loving school and getting to meet new friends. In September she had her first fight of the school year. It was with Harper over a friend, they both were playing with….
Hadlee loves to give to people and will give anything to anyone even if she has just received. The funniest “gift” over the past year was a used tree airfreshner that she found in my car. Last week she gave a lollipop to Mrs. Kelly, her summer school teacher, that she has enjoyed having in our transition.
In my parent/teacher conference at the beginning of the school year, Mrs. Cone summed up Hadlee perfectly, she knows who she is and nobody is going to change her! My only fear for starting pre-K later for Hadlee was she might get a little bored, and I think she was a little bored with not going to school five days a week. She’s not too thrilled with “summer school”; she keeps asking me when they were moving to Ocean Treasures so she could go back to “cold school” because they do a lot more activities and painting.
For the girl who wouldn’t wear anything but a dress last year, she now has an appreciation for shorts and skirts with shorts. She has a closet full of dresses that haven’t been touched this summer. (good thing Harper can wear them next year) The only negative that Hadlee sees about school 5 X a week is not getting to wear sandals to school. She only likes sparkle shoes, so thank goodness they make tennis shoes with bling-bling. Daddy loves her shoes because he doesn’t have to bother with socks or tying them.
Hadlee knows some site words, and has some of her early reading books memorized. Her desire to read isn’t quite there yet but she loves to have books read to her and to read to her babies. She loves to write her name but still has some trouble with her lowercase letters. After we had a battle of the wills at the beginning of the year, I figured she’ll get it when she wants to.
Hays started off the school year with some hesitation. After the first week, he started talking about that “mean girl” on the playground. We talked about his fears and I told him to stick with his sisters because they could take care of this mean girl that was taller than him. Before school he would refuse to get dressed and wouldn’t take off his seatbelt in the carline because of being scared of this girl. I was getting a little concerned because we were only two weeks into the school year. Then one day his fears disappeared and he had no hesitations at all. In October when we were in the carline and Hays said there’s the mean girl….it was Mrs. Jones, the other Bouncing Bear teacher. I can only wonder what she was fussing to Hays about….breaking the rules!
When Hays started the school year he was just starting the read and recognize words. I definitely haven’t pushed him but he has no problem reading short books. He probably knows 500+ words, which includes every state and capital. Hays has gotten into geography, he knows all the continents, too. When I picked the kids up from school one day after Christmas break, Mrs. Candy asked if we went to Alaska over the break. She said he knew everything about Alaska and all the towns that he visited and how neat it was seeing the glaciers, polar bears, etc.. We’re pretty sure his stories came from Mema and Papa bringing home an ornament from their trip to Alaska. Texas geography is pretty cool to him; he knows all the towns in our surrounding area and in the Victoria area. He’s into street names in Brenham, he knows more streets than I do in town and gave directions to someone on how to get to Max’s Donuts from his school. Hays still has no desire to write his letters but he will practice sounding out and writing the names of all of his animals. With names like Boogee and Punkie, he’s getting some practice with his writing skills.
Socially Hays is thriving from getting to go to school five days a week. He’s always had his sisters boss him around during the day so the only “bosses” he has to listen to during the day are his teachers…..not sure if they get through to him….Mrs. Kelly just shakes her head at him most of the time.
I know we’ll look back on this and laugh….Hays is still having accidents at school. He usually has one a week. Just my thoughts but I think his teacher at MDO traumatized him last year when he had accidents. He’s so afraid to tell his teacher and there have been plenty of times when I’ve picked him up from school with wet underpants and he gets very defensive about it…..On the positive side he’s only pooped in his pants a couple times this school year.
Harper loves school and does well in school. She always likes pleasing and school is a great place for her to get attention from different individuals. Mrs. Cone loved the fact that Harper helped with all the kids that had a hard time adjusting at the beginning of school. (the ones that cried) Harper would talk to them and try to comfort them. Harper is definitely the floater and has a harder time making friends unlike her sister. One of her shining moments this school year was when she was the only one to remember her backpack and I gave her the decision to go through the carline or go back home with her brother and sister. She chose to get dropped off and strutted out of the car with her head high into the school.
Harper is definitely our “tattler”…..one time was when she came home and told us that Mrs. Cone said that we can’t hit people in the mouths that it’s against the rules. (Daddy told Hays to punch this little boy that he was having trouble with on the playground. Hays would come home with bruises and one time he got a busted lip. I think the busted lip was the last straw for Daddy and he had a talk with Hays and of course Harper listened to the conversation.) Another time was when I didn’t even make it home from dropping them off at school and had a message from Mrs. Cone. Harper had gotten ONE poxie (MC) and told the class not to touch her because she was contagious. After printing off some fact sheets on the virus and reassuring Mrs. Cone that they were all covered up, damage control was done on that one.
She excels in writing her letters and drawing with her artwork. Before they went 5days a week to school, Harper and Hadlee would spend lots of time doing arts and crafts when we were at home. This summer she has gotten plenty of time to do her drawing at school. She also doesn’t like the fact that they don’t get to paint in class this summer. I’ve let the girls paint this summer because they take it very seriously.
When your daddy found out you three were going to be summer babies, he told me that you would be repeating a grade in school. I can’t say that I was into the idea at the time, it didn’t make that much sense to me. When we made the decision 1 ½ years ago to start you in pre-k one year later, I knew we were making the right decision. You’re three different kiddos with three different learning rates and with an extra year those will level off a little bit… Not to mention that your mommy doesn’t have to worry about kindergarten projects and homework for another year. After five years, our school journey begins and Mommy might shed a tear or two. I definitely miss spending time with you during the day and sometimes second guess my decision to start working. But I know that you are good hands at St. Paul’s, with great teachers and staff. Ocean Treasures here we come!!!
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