Dawson
Moments—January 2007
Dawson was leaving school a little early. He ususally stays later
and plays with his friends, especially Katie and Alina Rose. On this day, it
was clear that Kate and Dawson were going to miss their extra play time in the
later afternoon. So, here’s what happened:
Kate decides to wait at the Good-Bye Gate and wave to Dawson again
as he is leaving school. Dawson walks by the gate, waves and calls a good-bye,
but Kate is saying something we can’t quite hear. Dawson stops walking
and turns to me and says, “I think she wants a kiss or something.”
Dawson puts down the things he has been carrying to the car and walks over to
the gate. I can see that Dawson and Kate are talking about something, but I can’t
hear what they are saying. Then, they swivel their heads a bit and manage to
give each other a kiss through the chain link fence! Dawson turns to walk away
and Kate calls, “Dawson, you’re my boyfriend!”
About two weeks ago when I was picking up Dawson from preschool, he went to his cubby to get something. It was a little brown lunch bag with a note attached, explaining that the kids in Dawson’s class wanted to collect some things, and each child could put the things in the bag and bring it to school to share.
Once we got home, I had forgotten about the bag, but Dawson
remembered and brought it out of the car. He wanted to start collecting things
right away! Even though it was probably 50 degress outside (or colder b/c were
having a cold spell!), Dawson wanted to walk around the whole backyard and
frontyard until it got dark. We spent a good 30 minutes out there, collecting
seed pods, acorns, rocks, bark, and other treasures from the backyard.
The next day, Dawson was the only child who brought the bag back to
share. His teacher let him share and she gave him a lollipop! J
There are three classrooms in the pre-school, and up until
yesterday Dawson had been in the Art Studio classroom (for the 3-4 year
olds). On Wednesday (the 25th),
the teacher in the Science Room (for 4-5 year olds) told me that she had
invited Dawson to move his cubby over to the Science Classroom and join the
older children for Morning Meeting. She said that he hadn’t made the move
yet, but was thinking about it. On the way home in the car, I asked him about
the move. When I told Kate’s mom about it, we decided we would tell Kate
about the invitation because Kate would probably encourage him to move into her
classroom (or possibly take charge and move his cubby for him!). On Friday,
January 26, Dawson moved his cubby to the Science Room. Nanna Banana (you may
know her as Mom or Susan) picked him up that day, and Dawson told Nanna that he
had moved his cubby but that he was not going to tell me! As it turned out,
Dawson started talking about the cubby move as soon as he saw me that evening,
and it was also the first thing he talked about the next morning. We still
don’t know exactly when he’ll start kindergarten, but he’s in
the Science Room!