First Day of School

Day One: “Fine.”

Little Red Chief was picked up with both parents for his first day. He hopped in and we immediately started asking about school.

“How did you like school?!”

“Fine.”

“How did you like your teachers?”

“Fine.”

“Did you have fun? What did you do?”


“It was all fine. We did stuff and it was fine.”

Later, he did tell me he learned that 100 plus 100 was 200 and 200 plus 100 was 300. He also told me he has three teachers. “One is VERY mean to ME. One is VERY nice to me. One is a little mean to me and a little or lot nice to me.”

I asked why one was very mean to him and he said:
“She said, ‘No, no, NO! You don’t sit with those teachers!”

He was a bit down about not having nap time like his older brothers but found out he does have outdoor play time.

“They have one of those play things, you know? They have this thing that goes like this and you can jump over like that (with full hand illustrations) and there are those one kinds of things that you go on.”

When his name was called from the walkie talkies… he didn’t listen or know to come out to where the car line is. The teacher asked us to please encourage him to listen for his name and then she reminded him. Hopefully, he’ll know to do this tomorrow!

He opened up his lunchbox and hadn’t eaten anything except some of his Cheeto’s. We are usually adamant about healthy lunches but these are his favorites and they are soft. He is going to the dentist this month because two of his teeth are hurting (wonder why with the sweets he cons relatives into giving him) and I thought the cheese puffs would be easy.

He asked me how to drink his water using the new plastic bottle (I wanted a stainless steel or safer plastic but they wanted WAY too much money for them!) and I showed him how to pull the spout up.

He practiced his sight words and showed me his behavior chart (a green face is “Way to Go!” … a yellow is “Watch Out!” and red is “Not tolerated”… he got a green face!

This child I usually have to tell more than once (and sometimes embarrassingly more than that) to put his things up… put his shoes, lunch box, backpack and supplies up. He put his dirty clothes in the laundry and got ready for bed in record time. Go, Braxton as everyone keeps posting to him on facebook. Smiles!