School

The boys are loving their school.   Aaron's class has a "tide pool" right in the classroom.  This is one of their sea urchins.  Their teacher sent us this photo, and said you can see that it has 5 teeth!

Last week his class took a field trip to Good Harbor beach.  They were able to collect some creatures in the tide pools to add to theirs in the classroom.

Timmy's 2nd grade class is also fantastic.  They have been drawing pictures and making a huge book with their own illustrations called "Click, clack, moo: Cows that type"

We are grateful that they are loving school so much, and that they have such engaged teachers!
Some of their favorite things are art class with Heidi, music class with Jillian, gym, eating at the cafeteria, 2nd recess "where they can break rocks", and quiet time (where they can do anything quiet that they want....like reading or looking at the tide pool)

The bus has been a challenge lately. Some boys were fighting on the bus one day, and afterward said my boys had egged them on to do it!  Then, one of those boys hurt Aaron while they were playing last week, and Aaron hit him in the face and gave him a bloody nose!

The children met right away with their mommies and established 2 rules themselves
1. they cannot sit next to each other and
2.have to keep their hands to themselves.

Aaron said he "forgot the rule" the next day and hurt someone because he was making fun of Timmy's name.  Timmy said he ignored it, but Aaron felt like he should make him stop.   So....we are working on that this week.  Bus behavior is no joke.  Get 50 kids on a bus and the only adult to supervise is actually driving the bus.....it's a hectic bunch!

At least I know the kid can and will defend himself.