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petmoosieI did my lunch room stint. I went outside for the half-day pickup. I talked to a father picking up. This father is most likely Italian (I channel Rocky Balboa when I hear him speak) and his parents are/were living with his family. The grandfather of the family died a month ago, and the kindergarten boy is acting out. He's angry all the time these days. The father has a meeting next week about putting the child in ESL (English as a Second Language) for extra support at school. But it really sounds like the boy needs grief counseling (I don't know if the school can do that, but they certainly can find a referral). I hope that the father remembers my point that sometimes kids show grief as anger. I actually did not know that the school did ESL for kindergarteners. I thought it was pure immersion.
Then I took Emily and headed back into the school and unloaded and organized books for the book fair. Emily mostly watched a 4th grader play video games on his Nintendo DS. Emily found a bunch of words that she can read in the titles of various books. Her words are "and, we, you, a, I, see, can, the, go, like". Yeah, this one word at a time thing is growing old. After a while, I was more looking for work to do than doing work, so I gathered up Emily and left.
Then I took Emily and headed back into the school and unloaded and organized books for the book fair. Emily mostly watched a 4th grader play video games on his Nintendo DS. Emily found a bunch of words that she can read in the titles of various books. Her words are "and, we, you, a, I, see, can, the, go, like". Yeah, this one word at a time thing is growing old. After a while, I was more looking for work to do than doing work, so I gathered up Emily and left.
