Tyler's Preschool 3's Class Wrap Up

Tyler had a great year at UCPP, in the Curious Cubs class.  His teacher was Patty Bohnenberger, Mrs B., who also taught Timmy, and has become a friend of mine.  She was exactly the kind of teacher Tyler needed, especially when his imagination, stubbornness, and/or emotions ran away from him!

Tyler ended up having a rough start to the year, largely over Stella, which I have mentioned before.  He had a hard time sharing her attention.  Eventually he was able to become friends with everyone in the class, including the adorable twins, Erin and Maggie, who were his primary competition for Stella's attention.  I am proud to say that Tyler even asked to have Maggie and Erin over this summer to play (they had us to their pool instead).  While Tyler still needs to work on self-calming when he gets upset, Patty worked with him tirelessly to give him the tools he needs to use his words, express himself appropriately, and move on.  Throughout the year she would email me if he had a particularly hard day, my favorite email started, "Tyler had a few upsets today, but one was over something with Stella, and I count those in a different category because they are basically an old married couple."  Patty also helped us with getting Tyler into speech services and worked with Tyler and his extreme picky eating!  She was fabulous with him.

Tyler's favorite centers this year were art, whatever they were exploring at the sensory table, building blocks, play doh, and, of course, playground time.  At the end of the year Patty gave Tyler the A1 Architect award, for constantly building elaborate cities and knowing specifically where things should go.  I obviously loved this award, but can also read between the lines that "knowing specifically where things should go" is code for "bossy and demanding"!

The rest of this post is mostly a giant slideshow of the pictures that Patty took during their regular school days.  (Note to self, try to do quarterly posts next school year!)  They aren't necessarily great pictures of Tyler, but I always loved getting them along with her weekly emails, because it gave me much more insight into what activities they were doing, who Tyler was playing with (you will notice Stella is typically very near by), and gave me something to ask him about specifically, beyond anything I could have gotten from just asking him what he did at school each day.

Beginning of the year

Tyler and I during meet the teacher, and Tyler on his first day of school.

Fall Fun

In the top right picture Tyler is eating an apple slice!  Yes, this was a photo worthy event!

Winter Play

Spring Stuff

For the end of the year party, the parents were invited in to hear stories the kids had written, and then have snacks while Mrs. B. passed out the class awards, this is when Tyler got his A1 Architect award.  Tyler's end of year progress report, under Teacher's notes, read:  We love having Tyler in our cub class!  He really knows how to have a good time and it is fun to spend time with him.  He's silly, care-free and always has a smile and a hug to share.  Tyler has made progress in all areas this year, and it has been a pleasure working and playing with him.