Sam's First Day at Kindergarten

God answered our prayers, and Sam once again was selected to be a student at McLean Science and Technology Magnet Elementary School. August 17th was his first day. He has a new Transformers backpack, and Sunday night we went to Walmart and found a new lunch bag, and food that Sam agreed that he would eat for lunch. (Many of you know that he is quite a picky eater and has had the same thing every day for lunch over the summer - he calls it "the usual" - cooked pasta and red sauce). School begins at 8:00 and is over at 3:10. After the usual interrogation after school, Sam told us he was done answering questions. We now have an agreement that he will make a preselected noise when he is tired of answering questions. He says his favorite times are recess and P.E. ("that means physical education, mom."). As part of the Science emphasis, there is a specific classroom for science, which also houses 4 pets. Sam was very eager to tell about that class. Sam bought a new bath towel for rest time, and he says that he has been falling asleep during the rest time. I wouldn't doubt it at all. He is hoping this week that his class will get to visit the library. I asked him last night if he had made any new friends and he said, "Mom, I'm friends with everyone in my class." So much for a mom worrying if he has friends to play with or eat with.

Sam has recently gotten into legos. Specifically the Power Miners.


He does pretty well building them himself. Each one comes with a pretty easy to follow instruction book with step by step instructions. Last Wednesday, Sam told me he needed to write a book, it was to be 14 pages long. So I ripped off 14 pages from a note pad. Sam wanted some of the words to be pictures (like he had read in a Spongebook book - I think it is called Rebus), so I wrote the words and drew the word pictures, and Sam did all of the illustrating. Sam wanted to take it to school Thursday. He showed it to his teacher, Mrs. Kennedy, and she let him sit in her chair and read it to the class. Apparently she also wanted him to read it to the principal, but when Sam went to the office, she wasn't there. There is always one more Power Miner kit that he needs. He loves going to the Lego website and watching the videos there.