The Deters: September 2011

So, I completely failed at keeping our blog updated over the summer. I gave it my best!

The start of the school year has come and gone. It has been an adjustment for all of us. Jake is back at daycare full time and is enjoying being able to see his friends and playing with them. He also started preschool last week. He loves it and we could not be happier. He goes for 2 1/2 hours Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Cheryl (daycare) drops him off and picks him up Tuesday and Wednesday. Joe's hours on Thursdays have changed, so he has been able to drop Jake off and Cheryl picks him up.

Here is what he has told me about preschool:

They have celebrated two kids' birthdays and ate cookies.
He does not like Indira (one of the birthday kids and goes to daycare with Jake). He has said this repeatedly. He calls her "Ondira". "I don't like her!" We have had to talk about the fact that you still need to be nice to her even if you don't want to play with her.
He has learned a few songs-"The Circle Song" and "The Clean Up Song".
His picture is on the paper at school, not on the wall. Really, it is up on the bulletin board.
Tyreese is his buddy (another birthday boy and friend from daycare).
Sometimes they go into the "Muscle Room". According to Jake, it has chairs, couches, basketball nets, but no balls, and a slide. I am thinking it is a gym, but the couches and chairs are really throwing me.
He likes snack time.
He does not know his teachers' names, but he has two of them. Three, if you count the director, who is in the room next door. She is a daycare buddy's grandmother. She is always telling us how cute Jake is.
This past week they learned about apples and the color red. They learned a poem that I used to teach to my kindergartners. It was way cuter to see him say it!

I am getting used to being back at work. I have a pretty good group of students. One particular class gives me a headache most days, but at least I only see them for 55 minutes and at the end of the day. We have some really chatty and needy kids, but we have a bigger group of nice, sweet, and hard working students, too. Second full week down and I am exhausted!

Here are some pictures of Jake at preschool. He is in a phase of not wanting his picture taken, so some of them are the back of his head!