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Tot School #3 - I Am Seeing Red!

Posted on | October 12, 2008 |

Tot School    In this case, seeing red and lots of it is a good thing. Red was the color of the week and Schubaboobaly had plenty of it everywhere he looked. Each day he wore an outfit with the color red. Some days he was covered in it and others there were just a few stripes to remind him of the color of the week. I couldn’t understand him too well, but I

believe he was saying red every time I said the word for him to repeat to me. After I started looking for things around the house that had red, I was surprised at how much red we really have and it isn’t even Christmas and Valentine’s Day is even further away.

We have Lego and Mega Blocks in the house and Schubaboobaly’s brother and sister still play with both. They are always building something with them and because of that I had to get permission to use the ones we did. Maybe, when they both are ten and eight, they will pass them onto him. I can’t imagine them taking the blocks to college.

It’s amazing the joy a box of red blocks will bring to someone. He just couldn’t stop smiling. Little did he know what fun was in store for him.

Why is pouring out something or just making a mess so liberating? Hmm…Maybe, that’s just for the people who don’t have to clean it up.

“Tell me there’s more. There’s just gotta be!”

I guess I can see why all of the children enjoy playing with the blocks because even I enjoy jumping in and building a few things.

We moved to snack next and a red week wouldn’t be truly red unless you sat in a red chair and ate from a red bowl. Guess what we ate? Strawberries of course.

Schubaboobaly received help from his sister with practicing the letter b. He did well. I’m going to continue through the alphabet, but may end up spending two weeks instead of one on each letter. I will see how the next few weeks go.

This was one of his “uniforms” for the week. He’s mighty fashionable if I do say so myself - and I do. When we went to the bank, there was a man dressed in a red tank top and red shorts. I always carry my camera with me except into a bank. He was very friendly. I thought about running out to my car, getting my camera, and asking him if I could take a picture of him. That is just what everyone needs to see is some crazy woman running out of the bank and running in…taking pictures? Could I cause anymore commotion? Instead, I let calm continue and just pointed out his attire to Schubaboobaly. Throughout the week, everytime we saw red, anywhere, we pointed it out to him.

Schubaboobaly is always getting into something. I haven’t figured out if he’s just determined and curious or if I’m just not keeping a good eye on him. In the past, I’ve had to replace a box of personal products because he opened every single one (packaging included) in the box. I have no idea where I was during that time. Instead of getting upset, I’ve decided to treat each of these instances as a learning experience (for Mommy too). Now, I keep my personal products up high in my closet.

This time, I was in the room and I decided to allow him to continue playing with the rest of the sticky notes on the pad. He was really having a good time until…

They wouldn’t stick. I don’t think that life could have been more cruel.

It just kept getting worse until…

All of a sudden, angels started singing and everything was alright again.

We found another surface to use that was more sticky note friendly and he was mighty proud of his work. Now you have it - another wonderful day in Tot School.

I thought about following form for the study of other colors, but he doesn’t have solids in all of the basic colors, so I will have to come up with some other creative way of teaching the colors. It’s funny. I’m wondering where I got all of that red from.

See Schubaboobaly’s Gold Star Moment this week.

I hope you enjoyed A Peak into Our Week. See what other Tot School students were up to this week.

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