Kindergarten Chronicles

Once upon a time there was a small child whose personality was far too large for his petite body.  With nowhere to go, his enormous emotions had nowhere to go but out into the wide, wide world wreaking havoc at times on those people nearest to him.

And so it was that after 5 years, 8 months, and 30 days that the small child was supposed to attend a dual language program (English-Spanish) at a local elementary school where it was hoped that a lovely pair of women trained in education along with peer pressure (it's not all bad) would help him self-regulate a little bit. 

Alas, a plague afflicted the land and on that no longer glorious day in September, the small child began his education on a laptop computer. For 3 hours+ a day.

Does this story have a happy ending? Who knows.

Sigh.

Some examples from kindergarten remote continuous learning 2.0:

--Isaac spends his time during his Spanish class telling me that his teacher is saying the wrong words

--One day Spanish class ended with Isaac yelling at his computer during the alphabet song that "z for zapatos" is NOT the right sound for that word

--He called his English teacher "poopy butt" TWICE...luckily with the mute on

--Isaac likes to take the cursor on the screen and "poke" the eyes of his teachers and classmates while laughing maniacally

--Zoom has a lot of options for how the screen and screen-in-screen are set up...he has found them all...during class

--If he isn't chosen first (18 kids in the class), he throws his arms in the air and says "YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!"...on mute...but I'm pretty sure the teachers can read his body language

--If Isaac doesn't like a video with music the teacher plays, he covers his ears and glares at the screen (see picture above).  Fun fact: Isaac doesn't like any of the videos his teachers use. He finds the Spanish sounds one especially offensive.