Today, (Yesterday) when we get home, I asked how his day went. and as usual he starts out babbling stuff, until some key thing pops into his head that he focus' on. Today, he started by telling me something about lollypop sticks, putting back packs away, sitting on the carpet, looking at the smart board. Then he gets into the thick of the day.
Today is "August twentyfird." They picked and agreed that it was going to be Sunny today. After a pause, he says, "They have two days of sunny this week. Wanna know why? Every week she makes our weather calendar blank, so we can start new every week. But one day, later on, she'll stop blank-ing it so they can make a whole calendar of it.. and then, I think, until it's full and then she'll blank-it again."
He continued "Miss Holt, read that story that she read westerday. It, was so funny... (He started slapping his knee). The wittle school bus about these people that got on the school bus."
"The first one on is a hairy goat in his new winter coat. It's a rhyming book, just so you know. The second one on is, a pink pig, and on the pink pigs hair she has a pink wig, or something like that, i don't know. A pig in wig, a goat in his coat, are riding a school bus to school to school. Rising a school bus to school to school. the third one on the bust A big ol' fox, he has no shoes but he has socks. a Fox in his sock, a pig in his wig, a goat in his coat riding a school bus to school to school. A quick quick chick, a fox in socks, a pig in a wig, a goat in a coat. The fifth one on is a hairy bear, and his hair gets all over the place..." I'm not sure that's all of the story but that's where he ended. Today they were learning about people's names. As soon as they learned someone's name they would sing the Happy Birthday song. "And then Miss Holt said 'Lets sing the Birthday song for Xavier but this time it's for real because his birthday was August 2nd.' and then they all sang for me!" and he got the biggest grin. :)
Went to tables and drew a school bus. Miss Holt was calling us back to that table because she wanted us to fill out these pages. "Yesterday the page said, 'I am' and then a blank. We wrote a name in it then we drew a picture. Today it said 'I like' then a blank. My friend Emma drew an Ice cream and so I drew an ice cream too. Then... this is sooooo funny... she said that she is going to draw a birthday boy." and he's grinning again.
Through email. Miss Holt wanted us to ask Xavier Who is Mr. M? His answer: " he is this puppet bear and he is sooooo funny. When we were singing the A song he was Mr. A and now he is Mr. M. His real name is Mr. Alphabet but we shorten it to whatever letter we are learning that week. Ya know last week he was Mr. A. and this week he is Mr. M, and next week he'll be Mr.... Umm daddy I wonder what it'll be next week... Can you text Miss Holt and ask her?"
X started singing a song.. in this Bob Dillon-esc voice..
I'm Mr. EMMMM. With a munchy mouf
I munch from morning to midnight
from midnight to morning.
I'm Mr. EMMMMM.
I go much munch munch (he puts the back of his hand to his mouth and starts opening it and closing it like it's a big mouth) Munch.
I like Kool-Aid and Marmalade
and marshmallows dipped in chocolate syrup.
oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah (Repeat 10 times)
I'm not sure the "oh yeah" is in the song, but he was going with it over and over again.
After recess they learned about shapes. Trapezoids Triangles, Squares, Circles, Hexagon, Octagon. they watched a movie about them and then had a Quiz. Miss Holt asked questions about the movie to see if they were paying attention. Xavier was asked two questions he says he got one right and one not right.
He also told me of their procedure for walking down the hallway. They get "bubbles in your mouth" and shhhhh. It basically means pooch out your cheeks so that they look like bubbles. This is to encourage them to be quiet while walking down the hall."
And so I had to ask, "Does this work? Are you quiet in the halls?" He said "No, I mean, I always am but some kids aren't. Sometimes kids talk in the hall." Then he blurts out, "Three people went down the mountain today. 1 was at level 3. and two went to level two. They got bad notes sent home, I didn't get a bad not sent home today." I replied with "AWESOME!" and gave him a high five.
