Theme of the day in K'Nex.

We are later than we wanted to be getting to Turner's school, but it worked out fine. There were tons of other equally nervous parents learning the ropes. And most of the kids were in the courtyard jumping rope and dancing to music. Tomorrow, we hope to catch more of the dancing time. Today, however, we had tasks to complete. Turner created his name card and chose a cubby to put his backpack in. He learned how to select his lunch: express bag, tray lunch, PB&J, salad, or lunchbox from home (a lot of food options, that's a good thing). Turner put his name under lunchbox (a Hot Rods lunchbox filled with a PB&J, apple boats, animal crackers, granola bar, and juice box). Turner went into the classroom and did not find his name tag. He came back out into the hallway upset he couldn't find his name. I go to help and sure enough they had his name as "Klapkek." We corrected this mistake with all the teachers and on the fifteen places they had put his name (that's an exaggeration). A teacher was reading a book to the class while some of the parents lagged around the room. It was a book we read with Turner two weeks ago. After the book, the teacher asked the kids to raise their left hand, put it to their mouth, and blow kisses off to their folks. Turner gladly kissed us good-bye and parents were dismissed from the Caterpillar Room with Ms. Stephanie.

At 2:40 Andy and I joined the crowd of parents taking up wall space outside the classroom. Andy inspected the lunch box (one bite out of the sandwich gone, the juice box empty, and some animal crackers eaten.) When Turner came out the first thing he said was, "I didn't really learn anything today." We gathered his book bag and stack of papers and headed to the car, where he ate his sandwich, half his apple and almost all his animal crackers. I asked who he ate lunch with and he said Margot. She had yogurt, pineapples, and some other things that I can't remember now. They didn't talk much during lunch, only when Turner asked Margot a question. At dinner, Turner recited this summary of his day:

"I didn't really learn anything, but I played with K'Nex. And I wrote my favorite thing that I did today, which was K'Nex. I read in circle time, and I had lunch with Margot. And I loved my teachers very much, but they didn't tell you that I got in trouble only once. It wasn't very much. It wasn't a bad thing I got in trouble for but I forgot what kind of trouble it was so I cannot tell you. And I really did get to make some observations on K'Nex, and I made a sea monster out of K'Nex. The end."

Later, he told us about the school tour his class took today. "And there's a nurse there that takes care of you but she doesn't give any shots. Well, she does give shots but at some other place."
Andy asked, "Does that mean she has another job some other place?"
"Yeah. I think it's a doctor."

*Forgot to add this to the original post. A perk of public school="Entertaining" adult apparel. One of the parents dropping his kid off this morning was wearing a T-Shirt that read: "It's not a beer belly. It's a gas tank for a sex machine." Seriously?!?