Yesterday I was fortunate to be able to get A.J. into an hourly spot at the CDC so that I could stay at preschool with Peter and help out with all the Halloween fun.
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| The children began their day with the pledge of allegiance. :) |
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After their morning circle time, the 4 year olds got to work on their activities
for the morning (they have class every day so their Halloween party was going
to be the next day) while the 3 year olds lined up to go play outside.
Don't they all look cute there in their little costumes? |
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| Playing Hula-Hoops |
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My little Dash just happens to basically be best friends with
Spiderman there. |
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| What fun! |
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Even though 3 or 4 classmates were out, the teacher gathered
everyone onto the play structure for a group photo. |
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| What a bunch! |
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| Next Peter joined his friends in some play doh. |
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Apparently you need a drill to make whatever it
was he was working on.... |
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It wasn't long before a few other volunteer parents
arrived to set up out little Halloween feast.
What a spread! |
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| Feasting with friends |
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| Love that face. :) |
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After their little meal, their wonderful teacher lined the children up to parade
around the school a bit. |
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| There they go. |
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| After parading they came back inside for a Halloween story. |
The story was called The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything. As she is walking home one evening she finds herself being followed by all these random objects (boots, pants, a shirt, some gloves, a pumpkin and a hat) and they all do these little movements as they follow after her and then (spoiler alert) they put themselves together into a scarecrow. The children did the motions along with her reading, which you can see in this little video...
My goodness, Peter might just be the most animated of the bunch. :)
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When the story was finished the children made some crafts. The first of these
was making a scarecrow, like the one from their story. |
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| Then they made paper plate jack-o-lanterns |
I also helped the children make jack-o-lantern treats by spreading orange icing on a rice cake and then adding candy corn eyes and a licorice mouth. It was messy and fun. So much so that I didn't take any pictures or else my camera might have gotten very sticky.
Finally, as their day was winding down, it was time for another circle time. They read another book and did some songs. I recorded a little bit of their Halloween version of the Hokie-Pokie because it was just so stinking cute.
It was so nice to spend the time at school with my boy. He was very well behaved the entire time, and this helped me to believe and understand what they've been telling me all along: that MOST of the time he is a very good little boy. Just, occasionally, he has these terrible moments where he does something bad. (Matt calls it poor impulse control.) He hits or spits or kicks or something like that, and then when he gets sent to time out or whatever as a consequence, he FREAKS out. And once he gets all upset, well, basically, it's over.
Now who could he have inherited his temper from again?
Anyway, we're working on it. He just needs to think before he acts. To make better choices and understand that there are consequences for his actions.
But thankfully, yesterday, was not one of those days. :)
Yesterday, was, in a word... PERFECT.
