Can I just say again that I love his teacher and his school? In DC, where I taught for 3 years, we had too many students (37 my first year) and too little funding, the teachers had to be everything to everyone. Here in Utah, the funding isn't great since taxes aren't high and people have a LOT of kids, but there's so many parents willing to volunteer and give generously that it somehow makes the difference.
Ethan's school has computer lab teachers, p.e. teachers, music teachers, art teachers, lunch aids, even recess aids. This gives his teacher so much more time to plan and be prepared and it lets Ethan have really good teachers for all of these subjects instead of just 1 frazzled teacher winging it on subjects she isn't an expert in.
This is my favorite art project. I love this torn bag tree with the fall leaves on it. But I also love that he gets to paint and cut and glue and color and do paper machet and so many other fun things.
The beginning of November his teacher sent home a sheet with some goals she wanted us to set for the kids to help them become more independent. The prize for reaching a goal was a feather on your turkey hat that they made right before Thanksgiving. I cannot tell you how motivating this was for Ethan. He has grown in leaps and bounds and just for some silly paper feathers. But not silly to him. He memorized both Taylor's and my phone numbers, memorized our home address, learned how to write correctly his first and last name, learned to write all his numbers through 30, and learned to zip his coat on his own. We're still working on him tieing his own shoes but since he has velcro, it wasn't as pressing.
And now that he's brough his projects home, we have a few more decorations to complement our fall decor.
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