Month: June 2018

After 2 weeks of break, William goes back to summer school at Martin Elementary school in Santa Ana for 1 month (6/11 – 7/6/2018).  The school is big, we did not know where William’s classroom is; all we know is that he’s with Mrs. Newman Heather, who we met at the IEP meeting at Mitchell Child Development Center a month ago; so we went to the school office which requires some walking from the parking lot.  William held my hand and walked nicely.  He did not cry or show sign of afraid of the new school.

William’s classroom is room 22, which is not that far from office, but walking to the back door where the parking lot is, and also where we’d drop off and pick up him everyday, is a little bit far, but looks like William is ok with that.  The classroom is big, almost as twice as the one at Mitchell school but it’s not clean: the carpet, tables and chairs look old and dirty.  I’m just hoping that William won’t get sick or get allergy reactions.

There’s only 5 boys (including William) in the class with Mrs. Newman Heather and 2 other female assistants.  Mrs. Newman said she had not had girls in her class for the last 9 years!

First day at the new school went well; “he ate a few bites of pizza” for lunch.  I waited for him in front of his classroom; he was so happy to see me, held my hand and walked with me and the rest of the class to the parking lot where the drop off location is.

The school has a nice size of parking lot which so far I don’t see any problem of finding a available space to park, unlike Mitchell school.   There are lots of school buses so I guess most students use the school buses because I don’t see that many parents drop off or pick up their children; which may explain why the parking lot is not too crowded.

The class starts at 8:00 and ends at 12:00 PM, so I need to leave work around 11:45 PM to pick him up.  As usual, I’d bring him juice and corn dog in case he’s hungry and let him eat in the car.  We’d leave the parking lot around 12:30 PM for Children’s World Preschool.  So the routine is not changed, it’s just the time that changed; and it’s a little bit farther going from Martin elementary school to Children’s World preschool than from Mitchell to preschool; but summer school is only 1 month so I think I can handle that.