First week of Work and School

A night before we all returned to work and school, I had everything set up for the boys' lunch, clothes, etc. But there was one thing we were not prepared: both of our cars had died on us. David's Jeep battery left lots of jerky. An hour before the store was closed, he took the risk to drive to the Pep Boys to get the new battery while my poor green van was at a high risk. It had over-heated, oil leaking, and engine fan broke.

It left me no choice but using David's Jeep after he had replaced his battery in order to take the boys to their first day of school as I returned to my first day of working. I felt so bad that David was the ones who had to take his day off and took his own risk to drive the green van to the shop. Luckily, it got there safety. But David ended up getting a rental car for two and a half day. It took a small toll of our budget.

After I dropped both Dylan and Ryan at two different school sites nearby my work, I found it out that I had NO CLASSROOM or TEACHING SCHEDULES for more than one period. I only teach one period with a student while I work for the office until my working hours ends. It was because there was a lack of communication between the principal and the special education director.. so hopefully, I will be able to work at an elementary school where Dylan attends. If that is correct, it would be a lot easier for me to have Dylan join the van and then pick Ryan up.

Besides not having a teaching schedule, I learned a lot more about the boys' first week of school.

Dylan's first grade teacher expects Dylan to learn to do the cursive writing. Boy, I was shocked because I didn't learn to do the cursive writing until I was in third or fourth grade. After I had gathered all of the required paperwork, I found one of the papers about volunteers wanted. One of the questions was, " What would you like to do?" As usual, Dylan answered, without giving me the opportunity to finish the paperwork, "play, play." I just guffawed.

As far as for Ryan, there were several positive aspects on his parts. His teacher and the aides told me that he did talk a lot more with others. She also expects him to practice on writing the manuscript letters. Actually at first, he resisted to write his name. Ryan's teacher, Mrs. Jacobson, an educational specialists, put her hand on the top of his hand, gradually let it go.. then he wrote his name on his own. His 18 classmates and 3 adults clapped. He made a beaming smile.

At the end of the day, he told the teacher that he didn't want to go home !

Frankly, I have a very good feeling about this teacher because he did make new quick progresses within less than a week.

For instances:

1) For the first time, he said, "My name is Ryan. What is your name?" In the past, he has always said, "I'm Ryan." He did ask his second cousin, Sean when he and his family came over to our pad.

2) On Sunday morning, he approached to me, " I want a breakfast" in a full sentence while I was waiting for the hash brown ready.

I replied to him, "Well, right now, I'm cooking the breakfast."

To my astonishment, he said, "What are you cooking?"

I believe both boys' teachers will give them a great impact in learning because they have a high and positive reputation in my work school district.

Well besides of having the car problems, this was behind us because both of our cars are up, except I am waiting for the word of what to do next week. Hopefully, my teaching schedule will solved.