Teddy's Homework

This past week, Teddy has brought home a plethora of papers. He's brought home worksheets nearly every day, with obvious hand-over-hand efforts at identifying letter sounds, color and object identification and other academic skills. 

I think the staff to student ratio in his class changed because although he's brought home projects or papers in the past, it's been nothing of this magnitude both in skills or amount in any given day. I also think that he's further into the academic year that his class has gained ground on understanding acceptable school behavior and the basics of being in a classroom, which helps. Granted, Teddy was laying on his classmates today and generally a dink. His teacher phrases it so much nicer in her notes to us, of course. (And can I just say how much I appreciate the daily note from his teacher or para-professional? Sometimes it's just a sentence, and sometimes it's much longer and more detailed, depending on how the day ends in the classroom. Still, anything is more than what we'd know otherwise.)

An array of educational materials. Even those scribbles are hand-over-hand.

Anyways, it's been really cool to see these worksheets and scissor-practicing activities and workbooks come home. I know they've been working on academics all year, but it's neat to see what that looks like coming home, beyond the things his teacher shows us when we visit. 

I don't know what Teddy's academic potential is, but I do know that this type of repetitive, hand-over-hand effort is one of the things that will make the magic happen.