Jacob's Turn! (Kindergarten Halloween FUN!)

Jacob seems to be really making progress at school. He has had a really hard time with his fine motor skills but we have been working and he is so proud to finally write his name pretty much perfectly. It has taken work. Its not that he does not know his letters and/or the sounds or what letters to write he just has a hard time forming them, especially where they are supposed to be on the lines. We are working on it though. I had a parent teacher conference with his teacher last week and she said that she "has a special place in her heart for Jacob". That made me smile. He can be quite the challenge, especially since he just can't help himself with calling out and has a hard time raising his hand and waiting to be called on. Slowly though he is improving. He LOVES Ms. Kemper and his friends at school. We tried to see if he could go all day (they have another class in the pm for kids who need additional help) but his scores were too high so he cannot be fit in. So for now we are trying to work at home and he is having a blast at school. The more comfortable he gets, the more his self esteem raises and the better he is doing.

Now onto the Halloween. Jacob has been begging since at least August to be Indiana Jones for Halloween. Talk about one THRILLED child yesterday. He was SO excited to FINALLY "be Indy". He was asking or telling EVERYONE who he was. If he asked they would play into it and say "i don't know who are you" he would break out humming the theme song and then say "now do you know who I am"? It was too funny. (The picture above is of him all ready to go get on the bus before school:)

Jacob's school did a Kindergarten parade through all the other classrooms in their costumes and then had a sing along with all the kindergarten classes in the gym and then a class party. Nathan and I decided to attend. Nathan was SO excited to get to go to school with Jacob. He is insanely jealous that Jacob gets to ride the bus and he can't. We had an extra Indy hat so Nathan decided instead of wearing his costume he wanted to be Indiana like his brother:) So off we went. Jacob took Nathan with him for a good part of the parade and Nathan felt like a big boy. The singalong was too cute. Jacob loves this little girl Kayla that lives at the other end of our 4-plex. She is in his class and of course they sat together. Then after we headed to Jacob's class where they had a Halloween story while they had their "healthy" party of fruit and veggies and then broke into stations of all kinds of Halloween fun. It was at this point that Nathan decided to have a total melt down so we left but Jacob enjoyed the end of his day and came home practically dancing.

It makes me so happy to see him happy and it was really a lot of fun to see him in his classroom. I am looking forward to starting to go in at least once a month to help in January. Here are some shots of our Indiana!


This is a picture I just had to take. I love Jacob's big CHEESE smile. They have a big board with each letter of the alphabet and each child has their name under their letter with their picture on it. This just made me laugh:)


This is a picture of Jacob's whole class all dressed up. Miss Kemper is on the far right dressed as a witch:) Some of the kids' expressions are just too funny. I think they were unsure what parent to look at. But hey at least Jacob looked right at me!



Jacob and his favorite girl Kayla. Of course he is off looking at someone else but its still pretty cute:)


This is Jacob's class leading the parade of Kindergarteners through the halls into al the other classes. If you look close you can see the top of Nathan's hat following his brother:)


Nathan showing off the spider outside Jacob's classroom while waiting for the fun to start.