relationshipsWhat a strange day today was. Claudia had a meeting from 10 – 12:30, and then another from 2 until 3:30. Felt bad for her, esp since A’s meeting should have been me attending, but it is what it is. She reports neither was too bad; A’s was really them just planning out his day, and then D’s they either want him to be w/ Claudia and other kids maybe at BSE, or at Wings if there are no other kids coming in. If Claudia is not with D next year … she’d be in some kind of resource room situation at Heath … with Z. Either option is really intense, so I don’t know which to hope she gets more. Oh Z; his tutor sent us an email today with Z’s responses to the questionnaire, and he added a little caviat-esque thing that said, “oh, I didn’t know E and D were real kids in his class. I thought he was just using his imagination, creating characters and then blaming them when something happened”. HILARIOUS. What a little character.
Que mas? AB and I started out really well, but then we had an assembly a 10:30. It was the high school select chorus, including MISS ELIZA, wearing adorable tuxedoes and singing. My guys were there, too, and E and D survived the first 2 ½ of 6 songs, and A left too, but he went back in when I said we would be doing work. E and D went w/ Mr. Levine, which I felt might be unnecessary since he was enjoying the performance, but that’s how it happened.
E came back in from cash-in, and Parker asked me to circle D’s safebody point because he wouldn’t leave the gym. E told A to sign off, I told him that A still had 3 minutes because he’d been using the comp earlier for Math, not his cash-in. I turn around, and E is at the back table, with his binder out, starting to work on a Math sheet. FOR SERIOUS. There were about 2 minutes left until hand washing time, and he took the initiative to try to start Math. MEGA-points awarded for that.
Not much to report for lunch; A made a new gross food combo, consisting of marinara sauce and … cinnamon applesauce. I couldn’t watch him eat, but he enjoyed it, so whatever. Recess proved to be a bit interesting. Parker comes out while I’m talking to a sad Cori (SH! I gave her gum! SH!), and says, “can I talk to you for a minute?” and pulls me aside and I’m like ‘uh oh, what did I do now that was bad/offensive?’. Not me; somehow, while D was at E’s house this weekend, he came into possession of this gold bracelet with 3 little orbs on it. He planned on giving it to Emilly, but Parker saw the box and it had a hefty price tag on it, so we agreed he shouldn’t give it to her before we talked to all the adults involved. Inside, he DID give it to her, but I went to catch up to her and she and Kiarah were like ‘D keeps giving Em all this jewelry and we give it back to him and he gives it back’, and she’s clearly uncomfortable with all of it. We need to have a chat about that.
Then we watched the adoooooooooooorable 6th graders (who attacked me with flowers at recess) put on their play about the first ladies. Very, very cute, even if hard to hear/understand sometimes, but they did a good job. And my boys were able to sit through the whole 40 minutes, really politely. Issue at 2nd recess where D came in swearing and threatening (he’s baaaaaaaaack), but it was quite contained all things considered. A also got in trouble with Larry and Cynthia for not listening. E and Parker cashed in next door, and then D had SAID he wanted to just miss first cash-in tomo, but then came back because Parker rationalized that it was just 4 minutes today. He changed his mind and took that option, but owes us time tomorrow because he really only served about 2 minutes.
Lastly, Parker taught E today about ‘raising the bar’ or ‘setting the bar too high’ with girlfriends/presents. He told us he doesn’t buy his girlfriend anything. He does the dishes sometimes, and he cleans out the catbox, and that’s about it. Wow; she is a lucky lady.
