Tag: kindergarten
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Why school is not for boys. At least not Mike.
Sit still. No running on the playground. No playing chase or tag on the playground. No pretending to be the guys from Star Wars on the playground. I get it. You’re afraid of lawsuits from kids getting hurt. You don’t want children playing violent games and making other kids feel unsafe. It is hard to…
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Art and Politics. I know what I like.
I swear I will try to keep this from becoming “The Looky-Looky What Mikey-Mikey Made in Kindergarten Blog” but I just love this painting of Martin Luther King Jr. that he brought home yesterday. Proud Mama is my name. (BTW, the white blip at the bottom is where Mike wrote his non-blog-name. Y’all know I…
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Formless
This week I have: Signed Mike up for T-Ball Registered Robbie for Kindergarten Signed Mike & Robbie up for 10 weeks of YMCA summer camp (Thanks to nicole/wksocmom‘s comment!) To prove that I am permitted by law to do all of these activities, I have multiply photocopied my driver’s license, unearthed our property tax bill,…
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Fun with the alphabet and crayolas
You all know how much I love Mondays — that’s when the previous week’s work comes home from Kindergarten. So let me share some of my recent favorites from Mike’s stash. 9 Wheels in a Wheel-Holder Six Cakes 10 Shooting Stars What? You’ve never seen a Wheel Holder before? Sheesh, you just don’t get out…
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Keep your hands where I can see 'em, Buddy
I really heart Kindergarten.
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I have three sons, and they are as different from each other as night and day. Keeps me on my toes.
How hilarious is it that when asked to draw a picture of his house, Mike draws a floorplan? The answer is, of course, it is very freaking hilarious. Well. To me at least. (Special note to stalkers: you’re welcome.)
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Your "good mommy" challenge for today
So every Monday Mike’s teacher sends home a lot (maybe all?) of the work he’s done in school. I love it because I get to see the wide range of things they’re studying in kindergarten, and he really likes showing off what he’s done. There are some days, however, when I am at a loss…
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Hey, like I was saying… Hi!
ChristonafreakingBIKE, life has been kicking my ass! Boy in kindergarten, new blog, lots of day-job fracas, home-improvement-y projects in my, um, home… I am full up to here (waves hand above forehead) with stress, righteous indignation, and small people needing hugs 24×7. In an effort to catch you up on my week, and keeping in…
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I am completely, utterly, and profoundly relieved
After a morning of nearly dropping my son off in the wrong kindergarten class and almost handing in an enormous pile of Very Important Forms to Completely the Wrong Person, Mike got to have his first day of kindergarten. Do you remember how he was on the wait list for our local public school? That…
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I'm starting to feel seriously oppressed by The Man
So FINALLY Mike was accepted off the wait list for Kindergarten. For our local public school. Did you catch that? He was put on the wait list for our neighborhood public school. That we pay tax dollars to. That we moved to this area to attend. Give me a break. But now that I’ve gotten…
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This morning I allowed a total stranger to smash my boobs in a specially-crafted boob-smashing device.
And tomorrow I’m taking Mike to the Open House at the public Kindergarten he’s been wait-listed for. (His name was 7th of 14 to be chosen for “overflow.” Fuckers.) And I have no idea how to explain any of this to him. “Um, honey, we’re going to go visit a kindergarten. Not your kindergarten, per…
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I think it's time to hand him over to the trained (re)educational professionals.
Mike is ready for kindergarten, but unfortunately it doesn’t start until August. For months he’s been doing letters and words everywhere. He wants to know how things work. He loves the more school-like activities at his preschool. He’s ready. Well… Except for one thing. He refuses to admit that the alphabet contains the letter N.…
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OK, so maybe having the kids get older could turn out to be a good thing. Maybe.
The other day Mike realized that he could read. He’s not sitting down devouring books just yet, but soon enough. He’s known for a long time that letters make sounds, you put letters together to make words, and so on. In fact, his favorite DVDs are The Electric Company and all those Leap Frog shows.…
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Because I have a pea-sized brain and need to see information to understand it. Well, and because I'm a huge dork.
I’m going to come clean. For the longest time I was not able to figure out when Mike would go to kindergarten. I just couldn’t do the math, so instead I drew a picture. (Click to see the full horror.) Using Excel. Yeah, I know. Sad. BUT! Now I at least know when the kidlets…
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I have entered Mike into the Matrix. Just for him I chose the Red Pill.
So I did it. I registered Mike for kindergarten. There were no lines. I had the million pieces of paperwork I needed to show I really live here in this supposedly coveted school district, and it all went fine. It just felt so weird getting him into a computer in an official school building. I…
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Why is this giving me heart palpitations? It is just kindergarten. The child-eating machine.
My 2 oldest are eligible to start kindergarten in September, so I went online to get the forms required to get them signed up. Realistically, Robbie isn’t going to be ready since he’s got a November birthday, but I’m going to get him and Mike registered just in case. So why all of a sudden…
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Snack time. Smoke 'em if you've got 'em.
Did you see this? Preschoolers Grow Older as Parents Seek an Edge (New York Times). Here’s a choice quote: Jack Haims, who turned 6 in late September, started kindergarten this year with an enviable skill set under his tiny belt: He could already read simple rhyming books, count to 100 and write his name. “He…