Peter continues to struggle socially but in all other ways he's the very best kid I could ask for. He loves to go to museums, the zoo, and to bowling.
He loves to do school work and play math games I make up. He's reading at a late 1st grade level, so where a 1st grader should be at the end of the school year, but his math isn't as proficient. Therefore, we've been working on that. His favorites involve the math cubes or when I put math problems on hot wheels cars and he has to solve them to drive them around. Today I put the answers in parking spaces on the floor and he played valet, moving the cars into the spots where the answer matched the car's problem. Then we timed him to see if he could get faster. He was so happy when he did!
He's also finally moved into Benjamin's old room. We had to dismantle Benjamin's large bed and plaster and repaint the walls so it took a while. Peter has been very happy to have a place upstairs and a new "big boy" bed. Christian has been so happy to have a room to himself again. Now he can finally get dressed for school early in the morning without a flashlight.
I just wish I could more effectively help him adjust to being with people. Any effort to coach him in social situations is met with stern looks and a complete refusal to comply. Hopefully that cute face will win him some points at times, even if that refusal to speak is off-putting.
Some pictures his teacher sent from school:
They were talking about and building incline planes in their unit on simple machines.
This is Jayden, who gets mentioned the most in his after school reports. From what I can gather, he's one of those kinds of kids who is friends with everyone but with no particular tie to Peter while Peter really admires him but has no idea how to socially engage. Maybe it'll come.
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