Arte, LMAO @ W being a "senior" student. It was kind of weird walking past the reception classroom today, there were a few kids there (ie the repeaters) but the newies won't start until tomorrow (ie Carparking Hell, Round#2) - but it will be amazing to see how big our kids look next to the littlies.
That's fantastic that the awesome teacher is back. I haven't formed any judgement on E's new teacher yet. The OTHER teacher (ie, the one who has E's little separated friend) is FANTASTIC so I'm having a tiny bit of anticipatory teacher envy... without even knowing what this one is like LOL.
YAY also for carpooling! I don't think any of that will be happening here, but DD1 is (finally) keen to start getting her own self to school so that might take a bit of pressure off our mornings (and thousands of km/year off our mileage)! We'll see how long that lasts...
Didn't see you there Cally! That does sound like a nice way to finish off the holidays. Bummer about the colonoscopy AND the vomming. Chesty cough sounds a bit of a worry - do you think you might have aspirated? Maybe try some honey in some warm water, small sips - might help soothe the irritation. xxx
And WTG Miss K with the laces!! Do you think it helps having a trained teacher in da house? I sometimes have those moments when E wants to know something and I'm just not sure how to break it down into something short and sticky. (Notice a trend here re lack of brevity??? LMAO)
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Well, end of (a very HOT) first week of school and it looks like miss e is settling in to her new class ok. She was a little unsettled during the week and even wet the bed the other night after a very long dry run. I think I underestimated how big a transition it would be for her. Wondering now if we should have done more preparatory chat in the lead up, or whether that would have prolonged the changexiety.
How are the rest of our kidlets finding the transition?
Very hot weekend coming here. Not much for it but to find aircon!
Miss L had her first day back yesterday I was surprised at how GINORMOUS she looked in comparison to the prep kids...the children grow! they really do! hahahahaha.
I will have to buy her some new sneakers or something as ATM she only has some velcro mary jane things. cute as, but i dont think they will last very long. That said, i will have to get her to learn to tie laces (Cally, you wanna come down and do that for me ... not sure my patience will cope) as they take their shoes off when in class.
Cally: omg! i cannot believe that you vomited! you poor thing! i can only imagine that it was pretty horrendous to go through did you get the cough afterwards? strange! have you spoken to your specialist about it? I guess it will go away soon??
MD: apparently we have the 'cool' teacher. but that coolness is because he makes igloos out of milk bottles. so not sure how far that will stretch across the year LMAO.
Arte: that will be cool that W has someone he really (really!) likes with him at school. i do have moments of guilt at having forced miss L to start all over again in the friend department.
AFM: we are all good. Baking hot here (as MD is probably also experiencing!). we have been hit with hot sun and even hotter blustery winds now for weeks and absolutely NO rain. everything is just scorched. i have had to go around watering trees by hand as they are being hit really hard and loosing their leaves etc.
Miss M starts her 3 year old Kinder on tuesday!! she is sooo cute in her new little kindy top
In some sadder news our neighbour here passed away this morning. he was up on the roof doing some odd jobs and had a heartattack first we knew of it was that there were firetrucks everywhere. really sad as he was the primary carer for his wife who had recently suffered a stroke. just so sad. so we have had some big conversations with Miss L today about it all as she was there having a look at the firetrucks.
Cass, sucks about your neighbour. I hope his wife has some other family to support her
MD, from the other thread, the Alexithymia thing sounds interesting.
From my experience, talking about upcoming events too much increases the anxiety.
W had his first day back today. They went swimming twice at school, and then we had swim club in the evening. Got to make hay while the sun shines around here!
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How are our kidlets all settling into school? I think E is still feeling the effects of the transition, esp the changes to the little friends in her class etc. Also we are hanging out for the parent info night - E keeps saying she thinks she's got homework (words to practice in the green book) but the book never comes home and no other info either? I'm sure all will be revealed but I never understand why they wait until week 3 for the big reveal.
Cass -LOL at the milk bottle igloos (yeah, that is cool). How is M liking kindy? So sad to hear about your neighbour, it's tough knowing where to start to explain things like that to the kids.
Arte -
Yes the alexithymia stuff is v. interesting, bearing in mind that it is often thought to be an aspect of ASD (or comorbid with ASD). Other really interesting aspects are the lack of imagination/dream ideation, and tendency towards thinking in concrete, externally oriented ways. I'm running a theory about a family member, and I only stumbled across the alexithymia concept when I was searching for info about poor recognition of emotion/facial expressions. On an associated theme, I'm also sussing out 5-point scales for dealing with some of the OTT emotional outbursts that go on here. It's a "check yo self before you wreck yo self" thing where you use a 5 colour scale (red, orange, yellow, green, dark green/blue) to remind kids visually to check in on themselves and tone down their reactivity/behaviour - can be used for voice (shouting, etc) or stress or argumentativeness/aggression or hissy fits.
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I was surprised at how GINORMOUS she looked in comparison to the prep kids...the children grow! they really do! hahahahaha.
... not sure my patience will cope) as they take their shoes off when in class.
did you get the cough afterwards? strange! have you spoken to your specialist about it? I guess it will go away soon??
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