I do think going to 6th grade orientation helped. He got to see that everyone else is nervous too and nobody knows their way around the school yet. Hell, I went to that school and it's completely different now. I'm thankful he didn't get a certain teacher that I had for 5th and 6th grades and my sister had in 7th who is still teaching. She was a total bitch on wheels when I had her 22 years ago. We heard at the orientation meeting that age has not mellowed her one bit.
The only snag was that somehow Jarrett wound up on the wrong bus and went to the elementary school. His cousin is supposed to ride the bus to the elementary school so it is possible that it was mistakenly assusmed that Jarrett was supposed to go there too. But, he didn't panic or freak and his autism tag with our cell phone numbers came in handy since that's how GES got in touch with me. He is doing so amazingly well so far, we're so proud of him. Suddenly, he's so grown up!!
Mikey has worked every day so far this week and managed to annoy the crap out of me at the same time. The other night he asked if Jarrett had any homework yet and I said he had math homework that night. Then we had a discussion about whether or not it qualified as math homework since he wasn't solving math problems, he was writing numbers in order from least to greatest. Mikey is of the opinion that this is not math homework. I believe homework involving numbers, assigned by the math teacher and to be turned in to her is ,in fact, math homework.
Max starts pre k next week and tommorrow we meet his teacher. God, time flies!!
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