All About Dylan

Last Thursday, my family and I went to Dylan's school for Open House. Dylan was so excited to show his work off. Who wouldn't blame him? Not us. We were so curious about his update work.

Before we were able to go in his first grade classroom, we stopped by the cafeteria where there all of the artists' displaying on the wall. Each teacher provided all of their students' art work in cafeteria. It was REALLY neat to see the work from pre-schoolers to fifth graders. While Dylan looking for his art work, he met another so-called girlfriend, who is in Kindergarten. He and Michelle, the other girlfriend were holding their hands while looking for his art's work. Isn't that cute for puppies love?

As soon as he found his art work, he was so PROUD to show his work off. We personally thought he did excellent job on doing his own fish art work. He also had created the other sea animals in the same picture: jellyfish, starfish, and kelps. There were many Sea Animals art works in his classroom.

Shortly after we finished seeing his art work in cafeteria, we went to Book Fair. The boys were so excited to go to the Book Fair. Dylan especially was hoping to find The Magic Tree House series, book 39 as it was shown on the flyer. Dylan was disappointed that the book fair did not have a book that he was searching. Perhaps, we can find at Ryan's next week Open House where it also has Book Fair. Instead, we found Hot Wheel CD Games for their computer. Hot Wheels is another thing they are currently obsessed.

Finally, we were able to get in Dylan's classroom. The first thing, the teacher gave each student guided tour check lists for them to show off to their parents. We thought it was a marvelous idea to keep their hands and mind busy. Almost everything in this time of the trimester, they were heavily talking about The Life of Sea Animals.

One of the walls, one of his essays was about Jellyfish, his favorite sea animals. He thought it was neat because he didn't have a brain. Wasn't he trying to compete that he is smarter than the Jellyfish? On his essay, he wrote three pages about Jellyfish! His teacher scored him the top of his practice Direct Writing Assessment. For instance, he started off saying, " Let me tell you about Jellyfish. Some jellyfish are small as a penny or a dime.. We get the jelly from jellyfishes, and we should thank the jellyfish. I'm not kidding." We were pleased he was able to describe the jellyfish vividly.

As he was guiding us around the classroom, his first grade teacher was telling me few things about him. Nearly almost all of his journals, he included the numbers! That was something I did not know. For instance, " I can use the computer technology that can steal the information from someone's else house that is 14 miles away." Who knows how did he come up with the numbers? I guess he is "Arthimomonia." It would crack the teacher up whenever she read his journals. She also mentioned that he is at the end of second grade math level, even though he is only in first grade. Mrs. Lampshire, his teacher told me that she had to give him more advance math class including learning to borrowing in subtraction and some basic multiplication. Just like his dad who is also in advance in math.

It was a nice closing feeling about his work at the Open House. We were definitely proud of his hard work.