Where things belong, and Tocayo's School Observations

Samuel, Matthew and Renee slept over at my parents house last night. And aside from Renee's temper tantrum at the fact that I wasn't there, all survived the night. My Dad served as the "enforcer", keeping Renee from leaving, reminding her she wanted to sleep over. And this morning, he bore the consequences when she refused to sit next to him and gave him the cold shoulder this morning. Samuel took care of things by putting a chair for Renee between him and Matthew and giving her a big hug. These pictures are what happens when Matthew doesn't use the potty, and there are no more clean pants at my parents house.

When we picked them up we talked about our plans for the day, skating for Samuel and going to H and M's house in the afternoon. H is a 5 1/2 year old girl in Renee's classroom and M is her 7 year old sister who was in Samuel's class last year. The kids get along really nicely, and so do the parents. Renee answered to our plans by saying "H and M are my friends, Matthew and Samuel can't come, they don't belong, and you (pointing at Marc and me) can't come to the basement".

The concept of where things and people belong is big for Renee right now. When Tocayo went to observe the kids at school, Renee didn't want him in her classroom at all, telling him "don't be in my class, you belong in your car".

Tocayo did get to observe Matthew who worked on matching Hebrew letters, building a ceiling high tower with the Brown Ladder (a material that is meant to be used horizontally, but he used it vertically), and drawing on a large piece of paper which was subsequently rolled up and used as a sword.

Samuel worked with a "10 Snake", a material used to do math by adding numbers to 10, wrote and read in Hebrew.