sunny_medford
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I'm gonna try to tell this story of Cora's first day of school. I hope I can put it into words so you guys can really appreciate it, because it truely is an amusing story. Typical for kindergarteners, anyway.
Cora started all day kindergarten at public school on Monday. She had her clothes all picked out for the first day. It wasn't what I would have picked, but it wasn't bad by any means. It's a big deal for us because our kids get on the bus at 7 am and in Sept(or our recent August) mornings it is still chilly. She picked a skirt & hoodie along with her crocs. Cora got on the bus and sat in the first seat across from her brother.
Randall, Cora, and Marilyn...(M-I-L), first day of school, don't they all look soooo happy?
At some point during the day, Cora got to be the Calender helper. And during this time one of teachers made a comment to Cora about how smart she is. A boy in her class, whose name she still does not know, told her he was smarter than she was. Cora does not back down when it comes to defending herself, she will argue, yell, scream or cry. Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, she does not tolerate being called names or being made fun of and she will also stick up for her friends. This boy was not warned of the wrath of Cora. She actually did something I have never known her to do. She's 5, mind you. She said to this kid, "Yeah, well, what's 10+10?" The boy spoke quick and said,"8". When Cora was telling me this story she seemed a little to happy that the kid got the wrong answer. I told her she should have just left it alone, not caused a problem. Afterall, I didn't think she knew 10+10, not without a numberline or me telling her how to figure it out. She's bright but doesn't always use the stategies she has to figure stuff out on her own, so I asked her if she knew the answer, hoping she'd guess something and be wrong so I could prove this point how she really didn't know either. Well, that little bugger came up with 20 quite quickly, not too quickly, but I knew she figured it out on her own. I had to switch my gameplan, come up with another lesson for her to learn from this experience. I don't want her being a bully you know. I went with....."Okay, so you knew this and he didn't, but I'm sure there are things he knows that you don't, so maybe you guys can learn from each other." This did not make her happy.
Cora has come home from school each day with a new story about this "boy who thinks he's smarter than me." That's what she calls him. She's learned about 10 kids names in her class, some she has to remember something that happened that day and what the teacher called that child, to remember the name. It's like she's retracing her steps to find something, only in her head. Most names or what ever question I ask her she can find the answer, but not this kids name. He shall forever be known as "the boy who thinks he's smarter than Cora."
Cora started all day kindergarten at public school on Monday. She had her clothes all picked out for the first day. It wasn't what I would have picked, but it wasn't bad by any means. It's a big deal for us because our kids get on the bus at 7 am and in Sept(or our recent August) mornings it is still chilly. She picked a skirt & hoodie along with her crocs. Cora got on the bus and sat in the first seat across from her brother.
Randall, Cora, and Marilyn...(M-I-L), first day of school, don't they all look soooo happy?
At some point during the day, Cora got to be the Calender helper. And during this time one of teachers made a comment to Cora about how smart she is. A boy in her class, whose name she still does not know, told her he was smarter than she was. Cora does not back down when it comes to defending herself, she will argue, yell, scream or cry. Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, she does not tolerate being called names or being made fun of and she will also stick up for her friends. This boy was not warned of the wrath of Cora. She actually did something I have never known her to do. She's 5, mind you. She said to this kid, "Yeah, well, what's 10+10?" The boy spoke quick and said,"8". When Cora was telling me this story she seemed a little to happy that the kid got the wrong answer. I told her she should have just left it alone, not caused a problem. Afterall, I didn't think she knew 10+10, not without a numberline or me telling her how to figure it out. She's bright but doesn't always use the stategies she has to figure stuff out on her own, so I asked her if she knew the answer, hoping she'd guess something and be wrong so I could prove this point how she really didn't know either. Well, that little bugger came up with 20 quite quickly, not too quickly, but I knew she figured it out on her own. I had to switch my gameplan, come up with another lesson for her to learn from this experience. I don't want her being a bully you know. I went with....."Okay, so you knew this and he didn't, but I'm sure there are things he knows that you don't, so maybe you guys can learn from each other." This did not make her happy.
Cora has come home from school each day with a new story about this "boy who thinks he's smarter than me." That's what she calls him. She's learned about 10 kids names in her class, some she has to remember something that happened that day and what the teacher called that child, to remember the name. It's like she's retracing her steps to find something, only in her head. Most names or what ever question I ask her she can find the answer, but not this kids name. He shall forever be known as "the boy who thinks he's smarter than Cora."
We got so that we'd laugh and say...... we need a bus...... POOF!!!
I stood in the wave pool for a bit too. Kids had fun there.
and I love your photos
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