1st Day of School!

Last week was spring break or Bebo would have started school. We had his IEP meeting the week before so he was able to go sit in on his class for a second time. All four of the children in the class we so excited to see him that day. They were pretty bummed that he only stayed an hour but very excited to know that after break that he would be coming all day.

Sunday night we explained the best we could to Bebo that he would be going to school when he woke up. I showed him his orange backpack and his Cars lunch bag that he picked out. He knew what those were for as he's seen me for the last two months pack lunches and put backpacks on the girls as they go out the door for school. When he went up to bed and I told him that when he woke up we would drive to school with his backpack his eyes became real big, he clapped his hands and squealed! He signed he was going to sleep right then. :)

The boy was up and as excited as could be Monday morning! Can you see him beaming with pride with his new backpack and lunch pal in the above picture. Oh, I'm sure you can see his nerves start to settle in in the second picture. They didn't last long. We went right up to his class room and his friends and teacher were waiting for him. One little boy gave him a great big hug when he saw him. It was really a the sweetest thing. Bebo brought his photo album from home that had all the pictures of our family. One of his teachers wanted pictures with labels for his language development so we sent the book in. I thought it might help him feel more comfortable the first week. I'll send the individual pictures next week.

There are five children in his class, four boys and one girl. The little girl is from Burma. All the children have some sorta of hearing aid or cochlear except one little boy. Bebo receives his hearing aids next week. He seems excited but I'm not really sure he knows what is coming. The woman in the brown shirt above is his main teacher and the other woman is the audiologist. She visits the room every morning to make sure all the children's hearing devices are working correctly. 

The school developed another program as they were seeing a large population of children coming over from other countries with no previous language like Bebo. He spends a good chunk of his day with his teacher Kara. Kara is trying to catch Bebo up with the rest of his peers. She is teaching him the pre-writing, pre-read/vocabulary and pre-math skills. He is learning very fast. Ummm, did I tell you that they put him in 2nd grade? That means in a couple months he will be in 3rd grade! Hmm, I'm not so sure about that one. The good thing is they combine 3&4 grade. He will attend summer school to help him catch up.

If you've made it this far, thanks for reading! We've been crazy busy around here. I've had to drive Bebo to and from school everyday this week. Praying that the busing situation is figured out soon. Hopefully we'll have some soccer pictures for you soon! :)