Field Trippin'

I chaperoned J's trip to the Apple Orchard today. I had 6, count 'em, 6 boys in my care. It was cool walking in to the class as I do know a lot of the kids from helping last year as well as coaching. "Mrs B" "Jagger's Mom" "Hey I know you!" was what I heard. This age is funny. They will talk and ask you about anything. I think in the first five minutes of gathering my group of boys I had heard

"You know me because I'm yours"
"What happens when you step on an apple? You get wine"
"My mom had a baby"
"I like the Patriots"
and
"You used to go to my playgroup"

Yes, No, Very nice, Me too and yes I did!

We had a tour of the back of the shop, the huge refrigerated rooms where they store apples and the store. Then out to the orchard and the kids got to pick apples and each fill their bag. The summer here was so rainy that it has produced an amazing crop. The Macintosh apples are so, so ,SO big, really amazingly huge.

It was fun and by 11:15 I was done and on my way home.

J has the same teacher that K had last year. This teacher taught 2nd last year and dropped back to 1st this year. I know her and like her a lot. She took me aside and said "They couldn't be any more different". I had warned her. She told me J talked more in a day to her than K did all year. Yes that is true. If you have a spectrum of chattiness J and K are both on extreme ends of that. She said J is very very bright but very impulsive and needs to learn when it is time to reel it in, wait his turn, etc. All things I know. He is a young first grader and his social skills just aren't at the same level as his intellect. He knows all the answers and wants to be the one to answer every time. I told her we'd work on this at home and I would appreciate updates from her and she agreed. She is wonderful, I enjoy her very much.

Passionate, that is always how I have described J, he is most definately a passionate child.