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On Monday, the child could not leave the house fast enough. As soon as he saw me grab my purse and his back pack, he was headed out the door. Good, he is liking school. With all day kindergarten comes lunch at school. We are learning what Aiden will eat and what he wont eat. Of course everyone thinks it odd that Aiden will actually eat broccoli and likes it. Aiden's allergies sent him home on Tuesday after puking up a ton of mucus with his stuffed crust pizza. Wednesday was the IEP Day. We stopped at the donut shop before school and I took donuts in for the team. Everything went as planned except for his OT goals. This has become my headache. Out of the 9 goals the contracted therapist set for Aiden, I agree with 2 of them. And so does Aiden's teacher. She kept waiting for me to say "For real?!", which I did and left a few comments regarding the intelligence of the therapist on the bottom of the page for his goals. And the director of special education ended up getting involved. On Thursday, I went to drop Aiden off and let Miss Jennifer know that I would be willing to give the therapist a week to come up with a new evaluation and goals that were appropriate for my child. On Friday the therapist called while Chris and I were doing our grocery shopping. I will be speaking to her supervisor as she is apparently not able to get anything through my thick skull. I swear I was as nice as I could be under the circumstances.... I didn't cuss or tell her exactly what I thought of her. She tried to place blame on Aiden's teacher and I shut her mouth real quick on that one. I ended up calling Aiden's private OT and there will be a meeting at the school this Thursday. I gave Aiden's teacher the head's up and she is getting the necessary people to attend. Aiden is enjoying being in the general education class as well. He goes 90 minutes a day with music, art, library and P.E. The first day of general education, he was too busy meeting and greeting his classmates to do any work. However, the child is thrilled to death with P.E., so we will be really working on maneuvering the steps in the gym, running, kicking and jumping. Not sure how the child enjoys P.E. - I never did. |
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After that, we went down the hall to meet with his general education teacher, Mrs. S. She was a second grade teacher last year, but with the expansion of all day kindergarten, she switched to teaching that grade. And she actually asked that Aiden be placed in her class for his inclusion classes. The halls were packed with teachers, parents and children. Aiden of course thought he was the "king of school" and was telling people to get out of his way. I kept telling him to slow down and be nice, but he wasn't having any part of that. He knew where he was going and nothing was going to keep him from getting there. Fortunately, his kindergarten class is in the exact same room that his pre-k class was in. However, he didn't want to go in the class, because the layout was different.
On the first day of school, he didn't want to leave the house and sure didn't want to walk into the building. As soon as we entered the building ( I carry Aiden across the parking lot for safety reasons ), I put him down for him to walk and he immediately sat down and scooted in front of me waiting to be picked back up. He did manage to walk into class all by himself. And the same happened on the second day.
Chris of course was freaking out all day because Aiden has never been away from us in school that long. "What if something happens to him?" Then Miss Jennifer calls. "But what if she doesn't?" She will, without hesitation. And she knows we are only 2 minutes away. I really didn't know what to do after 11:00 that morning, so I caught up on my reality shows. LOL!!
Chris rescheduled his physical therapy appointment to go with me to pick Aiden up from school.