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mamajoanAt Isaac's afterschool the theme for this month is darkness and each kid was supposed to write a sentence beginning with "When it's dark I think about..." Isaac wrote "When it's dark I think about basicly nothing because I go to sleep. I have nothing in my head. It is too dark to." LOL. He does tend to be rather literal. ;)
Case in point: his journal. Now I should mention that the way Isaac's school is set up, he's with the same teacher and classmates for two years -- first and second grade -- so although this school year has just begun, it's fairly familiar to him. Last year and this year, the teacher requires each kid to write in a journal every weekend. She's completely flexible about what they write: stories, poems, whatever; the point is just to get them writing.
100% of the time, Isaac chooses to write about what we did that weekend. Even if at some point he'll be telling me a story that he makes up, or something he wants to do someday, etc., and I'll say "hey, you should write about that in your journal," he refuses. Okay, whatever....
So recently he has been enjoying noodling around on my computer, picking out sentences in a word-processor document that I opened for him. I suggested that he might try typing his journal entry for this week instead of writing it by hand -- of course, after I said it, I realized that his teacher might prefer him to write by hand, but it was too late. I had said it, and he loved the idea.
So he typed up his journal entry (it was about the Boston Local Food Festival, which we went to on Saturday, and the Mozart concert we went to at Symphony Hall on Sunday, where we saw one of his classmates in the bathroom at intermission). Then I had to explain what the red underlines mean, and then he wanted me to tell him how to spell the words that he had misspelled, but I told him to leave them because I'm sure his teacher prefers to see how he's choosing to spell things. (Nor did I show him how to right-click and see suggested spellings. That can come later.)
Then I printed it out and we put it into his journal binder and I wrote a little note to his teacher saying that if she doesn't want him to type his journal entries in the future she should just let us know. She wrote back (she always writes a comment on every entry) and said that it's okay to type sometimes but she also does want him to write by hand sometimes as well. So that seems fine.
In other Isaac news, I seem inexplicably to have produced a sports-loving kid...dare I say it, a jock?! LOL, well, he doesn't really fit the personality profile of a jock, I guess, but it is true that he seems to love pretty much all the sports. Last spring he did Little League baseball and was totally into it (unlike some of his teammates who stood around daydreaming throughout every game). Over the summer he got into basketball; in fact, at one point we were at a class playdate at a nearby playground (with a lot of kids from his class and the other 2nd-grade class at the school) and Isaac played some basketball with the dad of one of the other kids. Afterward, the dad made a point of telling me how impressed he was with Isaac's basketball skills. Really!
Lately Isaac has been getting into the Madden game, which is a football game on the PS2 that they have at afterschool. (I am sure they also have this game for Wii, and he has already asked for it for Christmas, so I have to figure out how I feel about that.) I'm not entirely thrilled with him spending three hours of afterschool playing video games, but the staff assures me that that's not how it is -- they keep a fairly strict schedule/roster so each kid gets a turn and no kid plays too much -- though I can often tell when Isaac has been playing it a lot because he'll be extra-super grouchy when I pick him up. But ANYway, my point was that he has actually learned a lot about football from this game, and now he wants to watch all the Patriots games, and from the way he discusses the plays with my mom, it's clear that he understands football a lot better than I do! Which, to be fair, is not saying much. ;) But still!
I feel mildly guilty about not signing Isaac up for soccer this fall. Nearly all his friends are doing soccer, but I signed him and Ruthie up for gymnastics instead. The thing is, I got all excited when I found out that Ruthie is old enough to do soccer this year too...but then I found out that the games for their two different age groups are at the same time (Saturday mornings at 9am) at different fields halfway across town from each other. So there would be no way I could do that -- I'd have to do WAY too much relying on other parents, and I'd have to miss one or the other kid's game every single week. I just don't see it as an option. Nor would it be an option to sign up just one kid for it! Ruthie herself has TONS of energy and loves to climb and tumble, which is why I thought of gymnastics for her -- I wanted to do it last fall but she wasn't old enough for any of the classes that fit our needs -- and then I thought of putting Isaac in gymnastics too and that has worked out GREAT. The place has classes for both of their age groups at the same time (Ruthie's class is 45 minutes long and Isaac's is an hour, so she gets out a few minutes before him which is nice because it gives me a chance to get her changed and give her a snack and then we can watch Isaac's class together).
I was a little doubtful at first how Isaac would take to it. They do supposedly have a separate class just for boys at his age, but they only run that class if they get at least 3 boys signed up; otherwise they combine it with the girls' class. So on the first day, there were only 2 boys so they were combined with the girls. Fortunately, the next week, another boy showed up so they did split them off, and that seems to be working well. The teacher is also male which I think is great. And Isaac is not at all graceful or coordinated ;) so I'm hopeful that this class will do good things for him in that area. So far, he is absolutely loving it, just as much as Ruthie is, so I sure hope that will continue.
I could go on and on about my boy :) but I think that's enough for now. But I'll leave you with this fantastic picture that I managed to take of him at the playground recently. I just love it.
Case in point: his journal. Now I should mention that the way Isaac's school is set up, he's with the same teacher and classmates for two years -- first and second grade -- so although this school year has just begun, it's fairly familiar to him. Last year and this year, the teacher requires each kid to write in a journal every weekend. She's completely flexible about what they write: stories, poems, whatever; the point is just to get them writing.
100% of the time, Isaac chooses to write about what we did that weekend. Even if at some point he'll be telling me a story that he makes up, or something he wants to do someday, etc., and I'll say "hey, you should write about that in your journal," he refuses. Okay, whatever....
So recently he has been enjoying noodling around on my computer, picking out sentences in a word-processor document that I opened for him. I suggested that he might try typing his journal entry for this week instead of writing it by hand -- of course, after I said it, I realized that his teacher might prefer him to write by hand, but it was too late. I had said it, and he loved the idea.
So he typed up his journal entry (it was about the Boston Local Food Festival, which we went to on Saturday, and the Mozart concert we went to at Symphony Hall on Sunday, where we saw one of his classmates in the bathroom at intermission). Then I had to explain what the red underlines mean, and then he wanted me to tell him how to spell the words that he had misspelled, but I told him to leave them because I'm sure his teacher prefers to see how he's choosing to spell things. (Nor did I show him how to right-click and see suggested spellings. That can come later.)
Then I printed it out and we put it into his journal binder and I wrote a little note to his teacher saying that if she doesn't want him to type his journal entries in the future she should just let us know. She wrote back (she always writes a comment on every entry) and said that it's okay to type sometimes but she also does want him to write by hand sometimes as well. So that seems fine.
In other Isaac news, I seem inexplicably to have produced a sports-loving kid...dare I say it, a jock?! LOL, well, he doesn't really fit the personality profile of a jock, I guess, but it is true that he seems to love pretty much all the sports. Last spring he did Little League baseball and was totally into it (unlike some of his teammates who stood around daydreaming throughout every game). Over the summer he got into basketball; in fact, at one point we were at a class playdate at a nearby playground (with a lot of kids from his class and the other 2nd-grade class at the school) and Isaac played some basketball with the dad of one of the other kids. Afterward, the dad made a point of telling me how impressed he was with Isaac's basketball skills. Really!
Lately Isaac has been getting into the Madden game, which is a football game on the PS2 that they have at afterschool. (I am sure they also have this game for Wii, and he has already asked for it for Christmas, so I have to figure out how I feel about that.) I'm not entirely thrilled with him spending three hours of afterschool playing video games, but the staff assures me that that's not how it is -- they keep a fairly strict schedule/roster so each kid gets a turn and no kid plays too much -- though I can often tell when Isaac has been playing it a lot because he'll be extra-super grouchy when I pick him up. But ANYway, my point was that he has actually learned a lot about football from this game, and now he wants to watch all the Patriots games, and from the way he discusses the plays with my mom, it's clear that he understands football a lot better than I do! Which, to be fair, is not saying much. ;) But still!
I feel mildly guilty about not signing Isaac up for soccer this fall. Nearly all his friends are doing soccer, but I signed him and Ruthie up for gymnastics instead. The thing is, I got all excited when I found out that Ruthie is old enough to do soccer this year too...but then I found out that the games for their two different age groups are at the same time (Saturday mornings at 9am) at different fields halfway across town from each other. So there would be no way I could do that -- I'd have to do WAY too much relying on other parents, and I'd have to miss one or the other kid's game every single week. I just don't see it as an option. Nor would it be an option to sign up just one kid for it! Ruthie herself has TONS of energy and loves to climb and tumble, which is why I thought of gymnastics for her -- I wanted to do it last fall but she wasn't old enough for any of the classes that fit our needs -- and then I thought of putting Isaac in gymnastics too and that has worked out GREAT. The place has classes for both of their age groups at the same time (Ruthie's class is 45 minutes long and Isaac's is an hour, so she gets out a few minutes before him which is nice because it gives me a chance to get her changed and give her a snack and then we can watch Isaac's class together).
I was a little doubtful at first how Isaac would take to it. They do supposedly have a separate class just for boys at his age, but they only run that class if they get at least 3 boys signed up; otherwise they combine it with the girls' class. So on the first day, there were only 2 boys so they were combined with the girls. Fortunately, the next week, another boy showed up so they did split them off, and that seems to be working well. The teacher is also male which I think is great. And Isaac is not at all graceful or coordinated ;) so I'm hopeful that this class will do good things for him in that area. So far, he is absolutely loving it, just as much as Ruthie is, so I sure hope that will continue.
I could go on and on about my boy :) but I think that's enough for now. But I'll leave you with this fantastic picture that I managed to take of him at the playground recently. I just love it.
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