Well, it’s the second week of school and all the kids have pretty much adjusted to getting up early, going to school, coming home, etc. They’re now into a routine and everything seems to be going smoothly. The only person not in school this week is Joshua. Poor Josh. Josh’s kindergarten class is set up where the kids go to school every other day. The teacher wants them to transition slowly and this week, Josh is not going to school. His first official day with all his classmates will be next Monday.
Since Josh isn’t in school, he’s been watching his younger brother Andrew go to Preschool. Andrew has been in preschool three times and is enjoying it immensely. There hasn’t been any incidents or crying episodes. He is very happy getting there and he doesn’t even turn around to watch me leave. He’s upstairs in the preschool area having the time of his life.
This afternoon was Andrew’s third day at preschool and Josh was not that happy. I can tell that Josh is very bored at home and is itching to get to school and do kindergarten stuff! So, this afternoon Josh and I decided to play some board games while Andrew was at school.
First game is checkers. Josh for a five year old is very good at checkers. Wayne taught him the game a month ago and he caught on right away. When I play checkers with Josh, I play to win lol because Josh is that GOOD!
Can you tell whose winning? Well, all I’m going to say is that Josh is black and I’m red…
Josh in his glory!
I told Josh to take a picture of me and he says “should a try to get a picture of your face too?” Ummmm yeah! LOL
Then after Josh beat me in checkers, he wanted to play another board game. Not just another preschool game, but a big kid game. He wanted to play Scrabble. Alright then…fine…How was I going to play Scrabble with a boy that just learned to spell his name. Well, I gave Josh flash cards of words and I told him to use the flash cards to help him spell words with the letters he got. Josh eagerly took the cards and started shuffling through them.
Josh’s were “ants” and “lions”. These words he did all by himself without mom’s help using the flash cards!
Josh concentrating so hard…
Towards the end, Josh was having a difficult time using his flash cards. I started helping him. His only problem was that he wasn’t beating me. As a good mom, I gave him the last word and I helped him. I helped him spell “jiminey” I don’t think that’s an actual word, but who cares…I’m playing with my five year old boy! Well with the word “jiminey” landing on a triple word score, Josh ended up beating mom!
Well that’s how I spent this afternoon. I had some good quality time with my kindergarten boy, Josh!
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