Pirate Day

Soren's school has a new Letter Person come visit each week, and this week Mr. (or is it Ms.?) P is in the house!

Soren was especially excited to show me his eye patch when he got home. He wore it all evening, until his "eye got sweaty."

Happy Halloween from Highlands

Fortuitously, Mr. H came during the week of Halloween! Why is Soren bogarting the pumpkin, you ask? I don't know.

Soccer

Soren played 4K soccer this year - he was quite good, although he developed a penchant for standing near the goal and waiting for the ball to come near so he could score. We are working on that. He also gets PISSED when he doesn't win (virtually anything competitive), so we've actually got a list of things to work on.

Tommy Larson, reader of mystery

Soren was SO excited that his dad was the Mystery Reader for his class today! Tommy read a Moomintroll book. Exciting! And by exciting, I mean long!

Fun Runners

This is the fundraising event for Soren's school this year. Laps for cash!

Special Kid ;)

Today Soren got to present a bag full of things that are special to him, and tell his class all about himself. He took in his yellow-striped karate belt and his favorite Moomintroll book. I'm not sure why his hair is so giant!

Here's what Ms. Brittany reported:

He told us that he moved here from Georgia and showed us his dog that he sleeps with when he is scared of the dark. 

He told us about not being loud on the floors with his cars.  He also told us that he wants to be the singer in a rock band when he grows up!

We enjoyed hearing about him this afternoon.

Visited by the Man

From Ms. Brittany:

Today we had a visit from the Mountain Brook Fire Department.  The firemen brought us Ms. F.  The children were able to learn about what to do if there is a fire and got to look inside the fire truck.  The children were very excited to learn about what the firemen do.  

Caterpillars

From Ms. Pat:

Today the children worked on answering these questions: Where do caterpillars come from? and How long does it take for a butterfly to come out of a cocoon?

Mrs. Barr (headmistress) helped with the answers by reading "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and by helping us become caterpillars, cocoons, and butterflies. The attached photo is of us as cocoons.

Bad Tired Peanut

Note from Ms. Brittany:

I have attached a picture of Soren sleeping last Friday!  I had to save proof that when he is wiped out he will take a rest time.

Random 4K Stuff

From Ms. Pat:

Just wanted you to see one of the things the children did today. This is a picture of Mat Man. First we read the book, Mat Man on the Go and talked about the places we like to go. Then we listened to Mat Man's song which says, Mat Man has 1 head so that he can think and continues to name different parts of Mat Man and what they do. Finally, each student helped build the Mat Man you see in the picture. When building Mat Man we are talking about big lines, little lines, big curves and little curves. These lines and curves are used to make letters and students have already made big lines with dough to make the letter M. 

PS - Mat Man sounds boring.