On Wednesday, when I picked Yago up from school, I could immediately tell that this wasn’t the usual, “I had a great day at school, mom” day. Yago got into trouble at school for throwing a book. The next day he took one of his favorite books to school to share with his friends and…
Category Archives: school
Who are you and what have you done to Yago?
On the drive to school this morning… Mom: Do you want music this morning or would you rather talk? Yago: I want to talk about school. Mom: Ok… Conversation continues a bit about friends and such… Yago: Mom, are we almost there? Mom: Yes, we are almost there. Yago: Mom, don’t stop. Mom: Yago, there’s…
Coming out of his shell…
Apparently Yago is emerging from his shell. It was just until a few days ago that I would walk around the corner and peek into his classroom only to find him sitting on his lunch box behind the door. He would be waiting. If he had eaten lunch earlier than usual that day, he’d even have a…
Give me one good reason, please.
If you had been a fly in our car on the way to school Wednesday, you would have overheard this conversation. Yago: Mom, I don’t want to go to Montessori; not today. (This is the way we start every conversation on the way to school.) Mom: Silence (I always pretend that I didn’t hear or…
Ready, Set, Go!
Yago was excited about his first day of school. If you don’t believe me, see for yourself: On the way to school, I was taking music requests. At first he asked for Tik-Tik-Tak from one of the Putumayo Kids CDs. We LOVE those CDs! Next, he asked for “crying baby”. Somehow I realized that he was…
School Daze
As I drive away from drop-off, I watch as Yago slowly walks with his teacher to the playground. He stands around as if in a daze, as he regains his courage to continue. He looks back to see if my car is still in sight. The traffic on Granny White keeps me from turning out…
School debriefing
When I went to pick Yago up from school, I was just a little bit early. He had just sat down to eat lunch. I was invited by his teachers to have a seat at his table while he ate. Some kids were sitting one to a table and others two to a table. Everyone…
Crazy Day
I packed up the kids today and before heading out the door, made an appointment for Yago to get his head checked out. We found a sore on his head that looked a little oozie (not sure when or how he hurt it and it was circular so I wanted to rule out ringworm since…
Daycare Blues Continued…
So Yago had an even worse day that I imagined, but when I went to pick him up he was sitting at the table eating his snack and actually being somewhat cheerful. When I walked into the snack room he stayed seated and finished his snack. One of his classmates let me know that she…
Daycare Blues
Yago was happy this morning before I dropped him off at school: (he also looked pretty cute!) I’m sure that this afternoon I’ll be passing on taking the after-school, puffy-eyed sad Yago photo opp. As I left the classroom this morning he started crying and then I watched from behind the cameras as he got…
