What? Alex is still in preschool? But he looks like he is six years old!
Yes, the kid is very tall and big...but believe me, in his head and heart, he is still four. Well, almost five. And that means he is starting kindergarten this fall!!! September 7th, to be exact.
We had really fun and educational last four months of preschool. Ms. Yuri and Ms. Noriko, both Japanese natives, did a fantastic job with a class of 10 or so boys!
I still don't know their secret, but somehow they managed to discipline without yelling and make it so all the boys loved to come to school. They also somehow encouraged Alex to do crafts--his very not favorite thing:) Every time Alex brought home a picture or project, he always said, "Mom, this is specially for YOU". Every time. It was very cute.
Oh, I have to share this. For a while, Alex would start saying different bathroom words combined with the word "head", you know, how kids do that? Well, he told me that certain boys at school say that all the time and they all think it's funny. I had to tell Ms.Yuri about that and ask her to monitor boys' language. She was very surprised to hear that some of those words were bad. Then she had me dictate some more words that she should watch out for when the boys talk, such as "stupid". Ms. Yuri's English is great, by the way. It's just that these dang slang words get you sometime (speaking from experience(s)).
Ms. Yuri and Alex.
And you know what we gave them as end of school year gifts? Two boxes of cake mixes of different flavors and peanut butter cookies:) We have told you before, Japanese, love those cakes. We get them for super cheap--around $1 a box. They have to pay over $7 off base! Alex thought it was a great idea.
Silly faces with Ms. Noriko
Good bye preschool!!!
You might wonder why Alex is wearing a patch over his glasses. He is doing it for four hours a day to strengthen the muscles in his weaker eye, making it work harder by covering the stronger eye. He has to do lots of exercises such as stringing beads and differents charts to train his eye to focus from looking far away and close up.
Love the posts about school. I'm so glad he enjoyed the last few months with Ms. Yuri and Ms. Noriko as much as Sara did. Sounds like Katya had a great year. It makes me really excited about Cummings. I would sure love it if Ashley had that great teacher too!!!
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