Kindergarten Screening part I

Tomorrow is the big day. Clay goes for his kindergarten screening in the morning at 8:30am. He's been asking ever since Monday if the next day is kindergarten screening and now it is finally here. He is very excited. We've been practicing for the last couple of weeks on counting to 30 (he does very well), saying the alphabet ("n" is often missing in action, but getting better), naming opposites (pretty good on this one), and rhyming. Rhyming was a struggle for a while, but has improved significantly with all our practice. Clay's favorite beginning sound to substitute in rhyming is /f/ , so for the word cake, he would say "fake". He uses /f/ without fail in every word he rhymes, even if it doesn't make a real word. I decided to tell the screeners tomorrow to please not ask him to rhyme the word "truck" or "luck" or "duck", etc., I'm afraid it would be embarrassing for everyone. I think Clay will do pretty well as long as he actually cooperates and answers the questions. Sometimes he completely shuts down and won't say a word to the person asking questions, but he assures me that won't happen tomorrow. I'll post how it went sometime in the next day or two !



In other news....




I went to the Dr. Monday for my ankle, and he said I could quit using the crutches (which I had done about a week ago) and I could also quit wearing the boot aircast and replace it with a lace-up ankle brace. I was excited to get home and put on two tennis shoes again. I found two old ankle braces from high school. They were a size XS, and apparently my feet have put on weight just like the rest of me because I had some difficulty getting them on. I've worn them for the past couple of days, but I think I'll probably go buy a bigger one before too long. Two nights ago Levi and Clay both tripped over my foot (I guess they can't see it without the big boot on) and it has swelled up and looks pretty grotesque. I'm hoping theres not any serious damage, but its a little frustrating to have to keep taking it easy to let it heal.


Everyone else is doing great. The boys weren't too excited to go back to school after spring break, but they haven't complained too much. Levi had an all day party on Tuesday for scoring high on the MAP test, and Caleb is leading his class in learning subtraction facts. David was wanting to start working on the barn this weekend, but it looks like it will be cold and rainy with a chance for snow. He doesn't seem too disheartened, but of course its not Saturday yet ! I substituted at the high school for about 3 hours this morning and got to see several of my former students. I'm hoping something will open up and I can go back to teaching next year.


I guess that about sums up our life for the past week. Stay tuned for Kindergarten Screening Part II - the results !