Kids & School

We're into the second week of school and all is going well. Allen has a full load with pre-AP classes and football. He's trying to make honor band, too. The questions about Alaska are finally slowing down for him; he was being stopped in the halls by kids asking him if he was the kid from AK.

Allen had to do an "All About Me" poem for a class complete with pictures and he used one of Michael and the bear. The teacher glanced at it and asked, "What kind of dog is that?" Allen told her it was a bear. She didn't hear him and asked, "How big does that kind of dog get?" Allen repeated it was a bear and then came the surprised comments. Can you imagine what that poor woman was thinking in those few seconds she thought it was a dog? "Gee, they really grow them big in Alaska, don't they?"

Both Allen and Emma say they are tired of being asked, "Is it cold there?", "Did you live in an igloo?", "Did you go to school?" With the Palin announcement and Alaska making front page news daily, their classmates are getting a full lesson in The Last Frontier.

Emma has made several new friends and is loving her advanced track classes.

Jessi likes her teacher and classmates, but the homework not as much.

Matt is being the usual rascal in his school, about 40 minutes away, and has recently caught on to potty training. However, he usually asks for the potty when he wants to get out of doing something. His teacher is using a good deal of sign with him and I'm seeing carryover at home. He wrote his name yesterday on HIS homework. Yahoo!

Nick thought the start of school was fantastic and then those mean people keep expecting him to sit in his seat and do his lessons. So, the behavior went south quick as he attempts to test the limits until he realizes his teacher and aids aren't going to let him get away with doing his own thing. Apparently, the aid took him outside of the class one day last week to have a little chat about his interruptions and he threw himself on the floor and reached out screaming "HELP ME" to anyone walking by. He's such the drama king.