Blessedmama

Tonight was meet the teacher night at school. Jackson had the honor of having his artwork displayed in front of his classroom. he is becoming quite the little artist. I shall scan the pics and post them tomorrow... I'm too lazy to walk downstairs tonight. Yes- I said it, no I don;' feel that guilty about it. Yes, you will get to see the artwork, just not TONIGHT!
I love how much my son is living school. It makes me feel so much better about the decision to send him. See- if you DON'T know me you don't know that I really never wanted to home school my kids. There is a million reasons, many are personal, many are well, emotional, and many are logical. If you know me you have probably heard me on my soap box about it. Can you hear me talking now? he-he. If you know me you also know we cannot afford private school. So (close your ears, eyes whatever some of you need to close) public school it is. I LOVE my sons teacher. I like the principal, the art teacher seems to be a doll and in 1 class has gotten my child passionately interested in art. I cannot wait to see how my lil guy does throughout the year.
On another note, the woman who WILL NOT home school is actually doing preschool with her 2 year old. Oxymoron? NO of course not it's just preschool for pete sake! Quin has been asking me things like 'What letter is that? What's this say? How much is that? etc. I say let's go for it! He is an old 2 after trying to keep up with his brothers, and I don't want to ignore the enthusiasm that he is showing for life and learning. 3 days a week we work on the letter or number that Bren is working on in Pre-k. Then the 2 days Brennan is home we work on that same letter and number to help reinforce it to Brennan. See Bren is the OPPOSITE of his brothers. He could care less about numbers and letters. After 2 years in preschool he STILL doesn't know all of his letters. I was worried- the teacher and director told me to not be. Many kids need another year or so, and he DOES have a late birthday for the cut off... So, we decided to do what we can to get him ready for Kindergarten next year, and go from there... I think he will be fine if we can pull his head from the clouds!
This week we have gone over number 2. Quin can tell you God created the sky on day NUMBER 2! (He says it in a loud, t.v. announcer voice) and that he is also 2. He has painted the sky,painted 2's, traced 2's, glued sets of things to giant number 2's, looked for 2's around the house, etc. We have worked on tracing circles, and now he can make circles on paper and even went so far as to draw a Q of his own accord tonight. Now I just wonder- will he need to skip a grade? I mean he does take after his mother...
And now I shall leave you witha great pic- Sam and J sharing pork and mushroom stew...