Height: 43"
Clothing size: 5T
Shoe size: 10/11
Favorite shows: Curious George, Garfield
Hobbies: playing Mario and Mario Kart, collecting sticks, playing with cars and trucks, math
Favorite things he has said:
- "fastpoke" (He thinks if there is a slowpoke, there must an opposite of that)
- We were talking about carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores. He said he's an omnivore because he eats Bugles and those come from plants.
- I was chewing gum and Mika asked what I was doing. I said, "I'm eating gum." Jackson said, "You're not eating gum, you're chewing gum." Sheesh. Always correcting me.
Sleep:
We dropped afternoon naps and now he sleeps from about 7:45-6:15.
Random tidbits:
- He loves playing Mario on Paul's old N64. He plays it waaaay more than I would like to admit.
- He afraid of the dark. I send Mika into rooms for him to turn on the light.
- He is very particular about...everything. He shows some characteristics of childhood OCD, but that is normal and most kids outgrow it. For example, he won't go to bed unless his blanket is totally straight, etc.
- He is still very focused when he does any kind of activity.
- His behavior is still pretty good, but he still likes to push my buttons as much as possible. For example, I will tell him to go to his room for time-out and he will go to the bathroom and say he has to pee. We started doing the guidance book 1-2-3 Magic, and it has helped a lot.
Goofing off at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History.
School stuff:
He went to preschool this year on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-11:30. I want to keep him home for kindergarten, but Paul is not sold on the idea.
Literacy/fine motor: He is reading beginner books, Bob books and similar things. His writing skills are what you would expect for a boy who just turned five. He writes his name in a straight line now instead of putting the letters all over the place. Most of his letters are legible.
He is so proud of his cut-and-paste puzzles.
Science: I just follow his lead on what he's interested in and we do a unit study on that. We've done geography, bugs, the solar system, and dinosaurs. He usually is interested in a unit for about a month.
He loved the T-Rex Cafe. Totally would've bought this mask, but it was $20...
Math:
He can count past 1000, do double digit addition and subtraction mentally, make up simple multiplication problems and solve them mentally, solve simple division problems mentally (sometimes), and we're working through the Kumon My Book of Multiplication using base ten blocks. He loves Kumon workbooks and begs for more when he finishes one. One of his favorite non-Kumon workbooks is a connect-the-dots book where each one is 1-100.
He loves playing Math Splash (War, except it has a problem to solve instead of simple a number), and Paul and I realized that he was card counting.
He can read a digital clock.
He can do 60-80 piece jigsaw puzzles.
We started Miquon math because I didn't really know what to do with him anymore. I find it funny that I HATE math, so naturally I have a child who wants to do it until I feel like my brain is melting.
Of course he has also enjoyed learning about money as birthday money comes in the mail.
He learned what $10 can buy this day :)
