Lovin' the school

Ethan's new school is great! They expect a lot from the kids and realize that they have to learn to control behaviors, stims, and things like that. He's one-on-one for right now and he's in his 3rd week as of today. Ethan went Tuesday Nov. 11 for his first day and I stayed with him just to see how the program works. They did some assessments and worked with him. Wednesday he was sick with a stomach bug (got sick right as we were getting ready to go out the door) and felt better by around 1 or so. Thursday he went to school and was fine. Friday he woke around 5am throwing up!! Fine by 10 am and ever since! How strange is that? and Alex, Jason and I never got anything...

So Dr. B called (the director of the school/program) and asked how he was doing and told me she did some assessments of her own. Ethan is reading at a 2nd to 3rd grade level at least, with 100% comprehension and math is good too. She wanted him to start in the first grade classroom with his one-on-one teacher in there with him the following Monday. The school he's going to is a private provider for children on the Autism Spectrum. They rent 3 classrooms at a Catholic elementary school and are allowed by the Catholic school to integrate the children from the autism school into the Catholic school's regular classes. Basically, it's inclusion as the kids are ready. Ethan was in there 3 days that week, Monday-Wednesday and he had a couple times where he got upset about things or talked out alot. The teacher in the regular 1st grade is very strict, from what Ethan's 1-1 teacher told me and doesn't put up with kids talking out in class. Therefore he was asked (his school was asked) to go back to their classroom with 1-1 teaching for the next 2-3 weeks and then slowly, one subject at a time, re-integrate him and try inclusion again. His teacher, Ms. B (different than Dr. B) told me on Nov 22 that she was working on 2nd and 3rd grade level things with him and that she thinks part of it is that he's bored with the first grade level stuff. Not that that's a good reason to act out, but it makes it easier for him to think so! Friday when I picked him up I found out he'd had a rough day and had yelled at Dr. B and had sentences to write for homework "I will control myself" 12 times. They didn't have school at all last week so he had 9 days off school! Yesterday he was writing his sentences (I wanted it to be fresh in his mind for today) and he is such a perfectionist! OMgoodness, he went over the line a tiny little bit with a T and got upset. His letters were very nicely written but he starting making notes on his page, "bad job", "not perfekto" ??(half Spanish?). I had to tell him that his handwriting was great and he was doing a good job and it didn't have to be perfect anyway but that it was darn close if that's even possible! Not sure why he's so obsessive about it. So back to school today and a school Christmas party on Saturday.