Yesterday, he had a stuffy nose. Woke up from 2am-3am from it. No fever.
Normally, I would have told him to get out of bed. But I was exhausted too from our previous day.
And he continued with the I don't feel well, my nose is stopped up, I'm really tired, please don't make me go to school.
WELL - OK. I'm tired too. You're just covering the letter B, which I know you know. And frankly, I wanted to hang out with him.
SO I did that. We ate breakfast, watched TV together, then we played Wii together, then we played games together, then he had "downtime," then he played on the computer, then we played some more Wii, then we ate dinner, then we did puzzles, math flash cards, his kid's sudoku game, workbook pages, listened to the Saggy Baggy Elephant on CD, then we danced on a stage in the living room, then we swept the living room, stayed up late to greet Dad at 9:45pm when he came home from Pittsburgh, read books.
I would say I felt bad about providing a bad example of not going to school - but we just had so much fun today. He's got the rest of his life to go to school! I've only got him home for just another year or so.
So I stayed home and cuddled with my little one and played with him and it was so much fun.
I love Michael's school by the way. He's been talking about how many syllables are in words. He's been loving the songs they sing and lately, we have to stay after lunch so he can finish listening to the stories they read to him after lunch. They attached a ring of flashcards with beginning sight words for reading. Luckily, they are the easy ones and Michael already knows them (I, a, the). We've been working on them so it's great to have the reinforcement. They gave him a great beginner's bible that HE.LOVES. We read the stories a lot and he can tell me the story of Adam and Eve already with the snake. I just hope that he continues to love school!
Just made me think that they do a lot with reading/letters/phonics at the school, which is GREAT because he really needs more exercises with this. Reading is not something that comes naturally to him.
However, not much happens with Math. The only worksheet I have seen with math has just been one where he has to draw the line from the number on the left to the groupings of items on the right ( 2 to the picture with 2 frogs).
I wonder why that is? Anyone know? I have no formal education in early childhood education so I don't know.
