An update on school

I snapped these pictures a month or two ago and wanted to post them but never got around doing it.
Josh has been overly enthusiastic about school since he started end of August but I must say his enthusiasm doubled when he started taking the school bus.

 I didn't cry on his first day of class but I couldn't help myself the first time he took the school bus. It felt like there was an invisible cord between me and Josh; it stretched and stretched as the bus drove away, until it suddenly snapped when the bus turned out of sight and I started bawling. I was so worried he would feel abandoned or freak out but it is all the contrary. He is so proud of his independence.

here comes the bus

booster seat and 5point harness. I'm relieved!

Kathy the aid (because there's a child with special needs in the bus) and Kathy the driver. 

A few weeks after he started taking the school bus I happened to be near the school around pick up time so I decided to surprise Josh and pick him up instead of letting him take the school bus. I arrived just as he was about to enter the bus. He barely noticed me, and when I offered to drive him home he simply said no. He jumped on the bus and I had to follow the bus home! It makes me happy though, it's such a relief he loves school.


Josh learned to read his letters when we were doing our home preschool with our friends last year and we worked on sounds this summer. He is now capable of reading easy words like CAT, DOG, TRUCK, PIG, CAR etc... I think it's pretty impressive for a 3 year-old. However his tracing skills aren't very good. He can write his name... poorly... and that's it. I don't think they focus on that at all in school and I don't mind. He comes home singing new songs and reciting little poems and I think it's great. He learned "Little Miss Muffet" this week and can recite it completely. I heard him sing "The Bear went over the Mountain" which I haven't taught him, he's also pretty good at inventing songs, and words that don't make any sense but he pretends are french, haha!


I also started taking William to a drop in day care about once a week for 2hrs and it's another story. Although he regularly asks for it and always comes home ecstatic (he spent at least 2 hours repeating "I fun a' schoooooooo'" to every single person we talked to last time he went) it is heart breaking to drop him off. Josh likes the daycare too and since school is over at 11am for him I've resorted to dropping off both of them in the afternoon once a week and asking Josh to stay in his classroom until he feels better. I'm hoping he'll get used to it soon.

Here are some of the art projects Josh made (at least the ones I was able to rescue before one boy or the other destroy them):

William also made a cute paper craft at the day care but it didn't make it home... the scraps of torn paper are still scattered in the car. Which makes me wonder, do people keep all their kids' crafts? Am I a bad mother if I throw them away after they've played with them and ripped them in pieces? I have yet to find a good way to expose them and/or store them away from their destructive hands...