School Report

Three weeks in and Rosemary has already been too sick for school (but not too sick for the playground) two times. Today is one of those times. I take this as a sign of meeting new bugs after a summer of being mostly outdoors, plus me not wanting to press her into going there in these first few weeks, even when she is probably okay to go.

I know. Softy.

It's been fun deducing what they do there by the limited pieces of info we get. Sometimes the toddler snippets are later explained by teacher's daily reports. The other day they explored primary and secondary colors by setting up the kids in pairs with single colors to paint with. Rosemary was working on an easel with another kid (she had yellow, he had blue), and when she ran out to meet me after school she said, "I MADE GREEEEEEN!" I asked her how and she said, more quietly, "I don't know." Her teacher said she and her easel mate got really excited about it, but didn't quite understand how it happened. Then the teacher read Little Yellow and Little Blue, the old Leo Lionni classic. I really love this school so far.

The other day she got Jason, my mom and dad, and I to line up before going outside.

Last Wednesday, she flashed me the two-fingered peace sign and said "That means peace, mom." They apparently do this when they go to the park - to focus attention, I guess. I actually recall doing this at my first grade school. Also, she told me one day "I put you in a box, Mommy," which sounded alarming but yesterday the school sent the lyrics to some of the songs they sing, including:

Oh I wish I had,

A little Red Box, (make box shape with hands)

To put my Mommy in.

I’d take her out,

Go mwah, mwah, mwah (kiss tips of fingers)

And put her back again.

Actually, it still sounds alarming.

An aside: a few times yesterday when I asked her to repeat something I didn't understand, she said, "I can't. That was a one-time story."