Tigerboy`s Open House

A couple of weeks ago I went to Tigerboy`s school for Open House. He loves his class and his teacher (and his teacher`s teenaged daughter...but that`s another story!) and so he was really proud to show me a typical day in his life at school. We made a snack together and then he showed me the "kitchen" area.

He really likes those rubber gloves!

Next he showed me his plant. Each child brought in their own plant to take care of over the course of the year. As you can see in the following picture, some of them are not doing very well. TB`s plant is the one with the little red flowers....still living but not exactly thriving. :)


Here is a lovely drawing for fall:

Tigerboy learned all about trees and leaves and how they fall off when the weather turns colder. After he drew his picture, the teacher asked him about it. The commentary below the drawing is what Tigerboy had to say about his work;

"There`s a guy watering the plant, this is water. There`s an owl on the tree. These are the leaves falling down and this is the sky. It will drink water because the water is going up to the leaf from the roots. I am a leaf and these are the roots!"

I like that the owl seems to be upside down, much like a bat. Since I know Tigerboy really likes bats, I think he meant "bat" when he said "owl"....I suppose I will never know the truth about that.

Now it`s time for him to "read" me a story. His favourite part was holding the pointer but I really liked the story itself. The plot was to the point and the pictures were interesting and very expressive!


And here is his lovely pumpkin:

As you can see, it`s much the same as all the other pumpkins in the class although, if you look closely, you can see Tigerboy`s "exacting" personality shining through. His little orange blobs are all in a neat line!

I also like this Scarecrow:

I love that he says, "Maybe it will scare a crow"! lol.

There was a whole section of the classroom dedicated to Arabic learning and I can`t believe I didn`t get any pictures of it. Tigerboy can write his name in Arabic, count to 20, and read 18 syllables. Pretty impressive!