Back To School Night

Harris had his first Back To School Night recently. It was proceeded by an ice cream social that Taleena and her mom took the kids to. I got back on the island and up to town just in time to miss the social but make the rest of the proceedings.

When I walked in Harris wanted to show me everything. The Choice Time board, the science station, puppet theater, food toys, et al. While that was going on his sister Helen was busy playing with all the cool toys and chatting up the other kids (older and younger) and just taking in the classroom, surely dreaming about the time when she gets to go to school every day too.

Harris showed me the various projects at his desk that he'd worked on then it was off to see the art room. A quick family craft was waiting for us and then we dashed over to the library. He was showing me how the library system worked with placeholders between the books while you looked for the book you wanted when the librarian came over to comment that she was impressed that Harris had remembered how to do that after only being shown once so far. Next he showed me a little amphitheater in the corner of the library where the kids could sit and someone could read to the students. Over the back of the chair is a small camera that displays the book up on a large flat screen display above the teacher's head.

Connected to the library is the computer lab full of Macs. We didn't spend any time in there as he has not started his computer units yet but I understand that it's not far off. We also made a brief pass by the music lab and the it was off to home and bedtime.