This month at school Garrett is learning about the color yellow, and today was "Yellow Day". All of the children were encouraged to wear yellow and bring in a picture of something yellow. Garrett had his favorite Wiggles shirt (that is of course yellow) picked out several days ago in anticipation for today's event. And my overachieving son decided to pick many yellow pictures out of magazines, not just one. He is really a lot more like me than I would admit sometimes.
Hunter continues to excel in his studies. I do think he is told too often that he is really smart, though. Last week we were filling in the day on his calendar and I asked him what day it was. He answered "Wednesday." When I asked him how he knew, I was expecting him to say because the 5th was in the column for Wednesday. But instead his reply was, "Because I am very smart!" He was correct...he is very smart, and he knew it was Wednesday because he read the calendar. He just didn't realize I wanted to hear that he looked at the calendar to get his answer.
Let me brag for a minute. Anyone who knows us knows that Hunter has quite the academic future ahead of him, reading at such a young age. But, it appears that Garrett may be more academic than I gave him credit for. I was administering an oral math assessment with Hunter that required Hunter to make rows of objects matching the numbers 1-5 (which was a piece of cake for him) and then tell me which was the least and which was the most. Well, to my delight, Garrett picked up the teddy bear counters and began doing his own rows. I asked him to then put the numbers in order and he did. I asked him to show me the least number and the greatest number and he did! Keep in mind, this is a first grade math assessment that my 3 year old was able to perform the tasks. I was tickled...No, I was amazed. I knew he could count to 5, but he actually can count and recognize the number 0-9. They both also can distinguish between the left and right. Now, if we could grasp tying shoes!
All this to say, I LOVE homeschooling Hunter and Garrett. While I am more intentional about working with Hunter Monday-Thursday, Garrett gets some school if he comes near the school room. They both are just absorbing so much, and it all happens before noon. It looks like we will be just fine to take a vacation next week and just enjoy the beach!
A couple more stories about preschool:Garrett gets stickers in school when he is "caught" doing something good, while all of the other children get an M&M. Today he told me he got stickers in chapel time. I asked what he did to get a sticker and he says, "Hmmm, let me think about that." "Oh, I know, I was a goooooood boy!" I don't know what he did that was good, but he surely seemed proud of it. I am proud, too, for I had concerns that his active three-year-old self would not sit still or listen very well. And when I was leaving with him, the director pulled me aside to tell me Garrett is the bravest boy in school. Evidently, he figured out a way to get to a pole that is part of the play structure and slide down. This was not an easy pole to get too...Hunter would never even try. Another little boy watched Garrett and when he was asked if he wanted to try, the boy said, "No, that is for brave, big boys. I'm just a little boy." I guess the monkey comes out in school sometimes, too!
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