first homework assignment

Now that it's November, the school curriculum is in full swing. Matthew's class consist of 14 other friends who share the 12 full time spaces in his split baby/JK1 class. Since July, Matthew was joined by 6 new babies sharing 4 full time spaces. I was very in favour of the split as I knew Matthew (so selfish!) would learn empathy towards the young, the understanding that we need to give more time for the younger ones and just learn that every one is different and it didn't matter of age. In my opinion, this is the only split class/age that I prefer. I won't go into much detail (since it's not about Matthew and this is now Matthew's blog) but I feel that children should not skip ahead just because one stage of development surpasses another; that I feel every developmental stage should be somewhat equal before one can move on. Anyway, back to Matthew. So for the reading curriculum, one homework component is that each classmate gets to bring home a stuffed, pack back teddy bear with a journal. The point of this assignment is for the parent to document a weekend long events and then the student who had the turn gets to "show" the class what they had done. This bear's name is Georgie. Matthew had the first turn. The teachers wanted us to set the standards for all other entries...the pressures on! Matthew had his first sleepover weekend! We brought Georgie home on the Thursday before the November long weekend. (We've been taking Fridays off for Matthew's cooking class). So the adventure begins. When we first introduced

Georgie to Grandma, she kept calling him George. So Matthew had to keep correcting her - "No George. It's Georgie!" We ate dinner with Georgie (since Matthew likes to put his feet up on the table while he eats and has been learning "feet down", he didn't quite comprehend that Georgie's legs were too short to reach the bottom of the chair and kept telling Georgie "feet down!"). Then we had a bath with Georgie (well, Matthew did and Georgie watched). It was then bed time and Georgie just posed with Matthew and then he was booted out of the bed. The next day we went to cooking class, then took the skytrain to downtown, the seabus to Lonsdale Quay (yum yum steamed clams!), back to downtown and skytrain to our car. The next day, again we took the skytrain downtown with Grandma, Georgie, Matthew and I and then dinner with at the Keg with the whole family (Uncle Calvin, Auntie Kim and cousin Clayton and Cole as well). We had time before bed so we played peek a boo with Georgie before bed. The next day we met up with Connor. The last day with Georgie, we took him on the Metrotown train and then had dinner at home with the home family again. What an exhausting weekend and pictures to prove it!