Ryder has settled back into school really well and he really
seems to like his class and his teacher.
This year’s teacher uses Class Dojo, an app that lets teachers award
students points for displaying good behavior and also share photos and
information with parents. Ryder is still
super competitive and he likes to come home and check to see how many points he
has earned. We also like to look at any
pictures and talk about them together.
There is a reward for whichever student gets the most points in a
week. Ryder won for one of the first
weeks of school and he was so happy about it.
Ryder still really loves reading and has continued with the
Henry Huggins series. I love to see him
reading and enjoying my books from when I was young. I got him a couple of Halloween chapter books
this month from Scholastic and one of them was a huge hit. It was from the Weird School series and the
book had him laughing out loud and re-reading sections out loud to me and
Vivi. They were both in hysterics! Ryder has also really been into math lately. He worked on a workbook that my mom had given
him one day when he was home with her, and he’s been asking to learn how to do
the harder problems. This month he
learned how to ‘carry the one’ in addition problems and he was so proud of
himself when he got the harder problems right!
We went to the American Heritage Museum in
Hudson MA for a WWII era re-enactment. There were a bunch of working
tanks driving across the field, re-enacting what a battle was like. Ryder
was up on Janda's shoulders yelling out the names of all the new tanks that
were coming onto the field. Obviously due to the technology, it was so
much louder than the Revolution re-enactments that we've been to. Those
technology advances made the battle super exciting though; there was so much
going on in terms of explosions and gunfire. After the battle, we went
into the museum to see the tanks. Ryder absolutely loved it and he pulled
out the drawing supplies that he brought with him and started drawing the tanks.
An artist who was working at the museum stopped to talk to Rdyer about drawing,
so that was very cool!
There were a few Halloween events this year, so like last
year, Ryder had a couple of different costumes.
The first event was Trunk or Treat at Beeman and he and Vivien decided
to wear their glow in the dark skeleton PJ’s and skeleton masks. Then for his First Grade Halloween parade, he
decided at the very last minute to be a pumpkin, so we McGyver’d a pumpkin
shirt for him. The last event this year
was Trick-or-treating, and we had another last minute costume change. He decided that he didn’t like the camo
jacket for his army man costume, so twenty minutes before we left, Ryder tore
through the house putting together a Spartan costume! Halloween night it was nearly 60 degrees, so
he actually ended up with a more historically accurate costume once he took his
shirt off!
My little pumpkin dressed up for his school parade
My happy Spartan got a full sized kit-kat!
Climbing a tree in his PJ's
Drawing the tanks at the tank museum
Just chilling at home
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