Otto had a busy week this week.
Wednesday they had a school assembly for a program about bats. The presenter brought bats to show everyone, and they learned all about the flying little rodents.
Thursday the K-1 classes went to the apple orchard. I went along as a chaperone and drug my mom along too (she's been visiting this week). We arrived in the classroom about 15 minutes before departure time, ready to put on our nametags and be responsible.
Otto's teacher said, "Oh, I should show you Otto's bat poster." And she explained about the program, and laughed a little as she said "Otto wrote about Batman, and he had a little twinkle in his eye, so I think he knew what he was doing."
She pulled his poster out of the stack and I leaned over to check it out. The page was divided into 4 quadrants, each box with its own bat factoid and an illustration.
The first quadrant had "Bats like Batman" with a little crayon drawing of two bats.
The second had "Bats suck blood" (the illustration was appropriately gory).
The third, "Bats don't like robins."
And the fourth, "Bats eat fruit."
We got a good chuckle out of that, especially the bit about bats not liking robins. Later that evening I asked him about it and he explained with a big grin, "yeah! I made one side Batman and Robin, and the other side all bats!"
The spelling was creative. But every square had both a drawing and a fact, something he wouldn't/couldn't have done last year. When his work comes home at the end of the week, his worksheets are all done. He was worried about math a couple of weeks ago - not that it was too hard, but that his worksheets weren't as advanced as some of the other kids'. And he's been reading on his own more and more. Last week I brought home the Kit Feeny graphic novels, thinking we'd read them together at bedtime. Instead I keep catching him curled up, book in hand, working his way through the story on his own.
Soccer is still going fine, and he's been warming up to Cub Scouts -- having one-on-one time with Daddo is a good motivator. He even wore a golf shirt today for picture day without protest, and picked Ocean Blue for his background color.
So far, first grade is pretty great. And apples make great hats.
