Posts Tagged ‘school’

Geesh I can’t believe it’s already the weekend. Time sure has flown this week for sure. Today my mom and I are going to go a different zoo then I took the kids last weekend. I hope I survive the humidity as it’s been HORRIBLE the last week or two. I lost count. My poor little rain gauge is thirsty! No rain in sight until Thursday now. And even then it doesn’t look like a big chance right now. Sigh… In case your wondering why I have a rain gauge I am a volunteer weather observer. I report all the rain and snow totals for my town to the National Weather Service.  The leaves are falling from the trees now and the colors are starting to slowly change outside. It is starting to look so pretty out. Fall is my favorite time of year. Next week after school Dakota and Brittany and I might go apple picking. The place we go to have the BEST caramel apples.  Read more...

Well today I was really put to the test. Dakota did NOT want to go to school. He literally screamed, cried, fought, punched, and etc. I told him if he wasn’t going to go to school then he would stand in a corner. Well he probably would have stayed there all day to NOT go to school.  So I decided to try to talk to him and ask him why he didn’t want to go to school. He said it was noisy and the kids were mean. I know that with the autism he is noise sensitive. I tried to help him get dressed but he kept resisting by taking his shirt off. It was literally really hard to get him dressed. I did manage to finally get him dressed after chasing him. I said do you want to go for a ride with mom. He said yes. I said I will take your school bag in case you decide to go. So that’s what we did went for a little ride. He was going to school he wasn’t going to win this one. Prior to going to school I had called the lady that works with us to let her know how hard things were this morning. I called the assistant principal to let her know of what Dakota had told me. She was going to talk to the OT about seeing what we could do to help Dakota. I let the school know we were having problems and I would get him there as soon as I could. So Dakota and I went on a ride. I pulled up at school and the crying began again. I looked at him and said sorry buddy but you have to go to school. Brad goes to school and he don’t like it. I am sure there are kids in your class that don’t want to be there either. So he started to scream and cry. I got out of the truck went around to his side and opened the door. He clenched onto the thingy in the middle. So I lift his hands and lifted his body as he is screaming at the top of his lungs. This time he latched on the seat belt. So I had to unlatch his hands and literally, yes literally carry him to into school. I had to stop and rest for a moment as 60 pounds of dead weight is hard to carry. I got him into the office and he sat on the floor curled in a ball. The nurse came over and tried to talk to Dakota and he didn’t want to go with her. So they got his teacher. She got him to go with her after about 5 minutes. I walked out the door relieved that I got him to school. Broke my heart to see him so upset though. I kept my cool through the whole thing which was amazing for me. I know he is over stimulated at school with the things going on around him. He does shut down when he gets home. Sometimes he goes to sleep and other times he just wants to be alone which is fine. It’s rather frustrating when your sitting here going what do I do?  Read more...

Last year we had some problems with Dakota not doing his homework. He started school in May full time and he would get homework. There were days it would be a fight just to get it done. I really didn’t understand why. At first I thought it was just the fact that he didn’t want to do it. Which I am sure there were times he just didn’t want to do it. I don’t think he should be exempt from homework. As he is just like any kid in the classroom and should do it. As this is the second day of school and his homework has been pretty easy as to just answering a question and reading a book so far. I know that there will be struggles. The teacher and I are prepared for them and he is going to attempt it. We even agreed that he could use the laptop. He doesn’t know that yet. But I can print his homework when he is doing typing it. That will come later down the road if need be.  Read more...

Finally I got a chance to talk to Dakota’s teacher. I called Monday but they didn’t start till yesterday. They had meetings all day yesterday and today she is in her room all day. Tonight is Orientation but I won’t be going as I will be at a different school working with Girl Scout Registration. Yep you heard that right. I am a Daisy Girl Scout Troop Leader. LOL I am so excited I can’t wait for it to start up. Ok back to Dakota. I brought up some concerns I had with Dakota from last year. Dakota re entered the public school system back in Marach. Started with a hour and then we put him in full time. The problems that came across were huge struggles with getting homework done. It was way to overwhelming for him. So we did what we could and turned it in. The books they were giving him were way to hard for him and way to long for him. This was for Title 1 reading. So the new teacher is going to talk to the Title 1 teacher and see what we can do about it. Dakota is going to struggle this year. He is a little behind. He can be difficult if he doesn’t want to do things. I also told her it will be interesting to see if the noise sensitivity comes out, the amount of students in the classroom and so forth. Dakota did pretty well containing himself. Time will have the answers. I am preparing for the worst but hoping for the best. We talked about spelling words and what could we do to get him to learn them. She had many great ideas. The first night she has them write them 5 times. Not sure how the writing is going to fly with Dakota as it was a struggle for him and his fine motor skills. I had him using my laptop typing things out. We agreed that we would try to get him to write as many as he could and if it became a fight we would type them out on the computer. She is going to talk to the First Grade teacher from last year to get more input on him. Which isn’t much as he wasn’t there long enough last year. She is very willing to work with me. I was really happy about that. We will deal with each issue from day to day through a binder and I will see her before and after school to talk with her. So far my first impression I was really happy with her. The kids start next week Tuesday. I anxious to see how it goes. I was glad to get the chance to talk to her ahead of time so she knew what she was up against. She will be also watching to see how he is focusing on his work. The attention span was very difficult last year. He is on different meds so time will hold those answers too!  Read more...