1st week of school

First day of school

getting in the car

waiting for the teachers to come and let the kids in

The line up pole.  All the kids line up in front of this pole before school and the teacher comes and gets them. 

with some new class mates

Mommy and Gideon.... I have a first grader.  Not sure how I feel about that.

Sitting in his classroom at his table

Mrs. McGrath's Classroom

They have a smart board up in front of the room where they do calendar, lunch menu and all sorts of activities.  It is pretty cool.  You can actually move things around on it with your hand.

Gideon had a good first week of school.  It is interesting to start seeing the changes in him.  He loves his class and teacher.  He got to be the table captain this last week for his job in his class.  That is where he got to be in charge of his table and make sure everyone is doing what they are supposed to be doing.

I am really looking forward to being involved with him this school year with volunteering my time with his class.  

When we pick him up from school we ask about his day and ask what made him feel happy and what he liked, what made him feel sad and what made him feel uncomfortable.  We have had talks since then that the word butt is not a bad word but a preference.  Some people choose to say it and that is OK and we choose to say bum or bottom because I like those better.  So far a couple of teachers have said them and it makes him feel "uncomfortable".   He also says the little boys get naked in the bathroom for fun..........not sure what is going on there but hopefully not too much. 

It makes him happy to be there at school and I can tell he enjoys it.  He loves learning and is starting to find out the efforts of having friends play with you at recess.  He has prayed on his food at lunch time, he stood up to the boys in the bathroom and he is a good boy in his class.  I am proud of him.  He got to come home early on Friday because he wasn't feeling good.  I think he was tired from a long week and a little dehydrated.  I really like his teacher and feel it will be a good year for him.  :)

earlier on in the week we did this.........  

Made Play Dough 

Molding and creating

This is a Posed angry face that Bridger wanted me to capture on camera so he could see what it looks like......  Pretty intense I would say :)

                                            This is our....darth vador with hearing protection

This is our darth vador being silly and drenching himself with the hose

We had an awesome Primary carnival for our church that the kids had such a great time at.  This is there painted faces the got.  Gideon the wolf and Bridger the love man.....I am not sure where he got that but he was the love man this day :)

Bridger had a good week.  We did a service day on Wednesday.  We went to a friends house who moved to a new house and we helped deep clean their bathroom and part of their kitchen.  Bridger was such a good helper and did a good job cleaning.  He loves to scrub toilets and mop and dust..... I guess anything with some sort of tool he can use.  We then made dinner that night for another family and delivered it.  On Thursday we went to reading time at the library and listened to the librarian read books and then do a craft.  He seemed to enjoy that so I think we will stick with that.  It is different having just Bridger home but good too.  We start Pre-school this week with some friends and we are looking forward to that.  It will also be different when we introduce a baby to the equation as well :)  Less than 4 weeks now.  Wahoo, I think I am ready.  My body is ready at least, ready to have her out.  It is just so uncomfortable these last few weeks.  

I get to teach Pre-school this next week on the human body.  I will post my lesson on here too.  

Hope you all have a good week too.