Monday morning; I took William to Lincoln school as usual. This is the 3rd week since school started. Tim did not have to work today so he followed us recording the video without William knowing it. He only saw his dad when we were at the traffic light. When we got the the gate, he refused to go in with Ms. Newman and started to cry “Papa is not going!”.
Thursday’s noon at 1:00 PM at Lincoln Elementary school; William was crying while walking with Ms. Birdie to the gate where I normally pick him up. He kept point his hand to the classroom and said “I want to try again!”. And the story is:
The teacher took him to the bathroom every half an hour but he would not pee. After lunch he told Ms. Newman “I want diaper!”, Ms. New said “No, no, let’s go to the bath room”, so she took him there but he did not pee. When they returned to the classroom then William peed in his pants! But that’s not why William cried: he cried because he did not get the last star (for peed in the pants) to get the chocolate that he wants. He wanted to try the bathroom again so that he could get the star, and of course the chocolate that he wanted so badly.
He continued to cry for about 10 minutes in my car and kept pointing his hands toward the school “I want to try again”. He only stopped when I gave him my phone so that he could watch youTube. Looking at him watching videos, eating chips and drinking juice, he seemed to forget about the whole thing while I was driving him to the daycare.
Tuesday 8:00 AM. Time to go back to school. William took a day off on Monday because we were at the Great Wolf Lodge Hotel playing in the water park.
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Tuesday 7:50 AM. He sat on the stroller voluntarily and said “Stroller”, meaning we will take the stroller, no car. And he didn’t cry at all. I took a few pictures of him wearing sunglasses in front of our house before going to school. He put on the sunglasses himself, not sure why! I took him to the classroom and took few more pictures of him and the colorful wall right next to his classroom. We were early!
On the way out, I took few pictures of the school. I think most students are Mexican; the fact is I have not seen any Asian students. In his class, William is the only Vietnamese. It’s just my observation, nothing else.
Mon 8/13/2018 8:00 AM
William was born in Nov so he’s not ready to go to Kindergarten yet; they send him to TK instead; and today was his first day at the Lincoln Elementary School. He started to cry when I pushed the stroller pass my car. He pointed his hand toward the car signaling that he wanted to take the car. I told him “The new school is near so we can just walk”. He cried all the way from home to the class room. It was so crowded with students. We stopped by the office first to find out his room number: 54 with Ms. Newman Heather.
It was a surprised to see Ms. Birdie in the classroom too. William stopped crying once we got inside the room but refused to get off his stroller. After a while, he came sit next to me at the breakfast table. Ms. Newman brought in breakfast: juice and mini-donuts and asked if he wanted donuts; he kept saying No but I took one chocolate donut anyway because i know he loves it. After a few times saying No, he reached to the donut and had 1 bite. Then eventually he finished it! I encouraged him to go play, and he ran over to the Legos.
His class is from 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM. Breakfast is served around 8:00 AM in the classroom (he doesn’t need to go get it like at the Martin school); and lunch is served around 11:30 AM.
He was sent home with homework on the first day of school! (it’s 4 pages of learning about letter A).
