My Baby Had a Solo In The Thanksgiving Show!

My son is in a special needs classroom but spends as much time as he can in a typical Kindergarten setting. As the days go by, his teachers continue to add more and more time in the main classroom and he is doing great! His teacher told me last week about a Thanksgiving show that the big class was putting on and asked me to practice the poems with N. I went over it once with him but he gave me that "seriously Mom, I have been reading for 3 years and I memorize things almost instantly so yeh, I'm good" look. He read the last line for me to appease me but other than talking about the upcoming show, we didn't prepare much at home.

Today Hubby, Little Brother and I went to see our star perform his poems. He wore a paper vest and a hat with feathers and he looked great in his costume. When we went over to the big Kindergarten class it was just N and one other boy from his room and we were a couple minutes late so they quickly shuffled into place. The big class teacher has always been so friendly and welcoming to my little man and she was just the same today. She told him where to stand and he followed along with the songs he knew. The class had been practicing 10 or so chants but he only knew 3 of them.

When it came time for the Pilgrim poem the teacher told N to come up and say it for everyone. His teacher was surprised because she thought he was going to be joining all the other kids but she had actually saved that one for N and his other classmate that went over there with us. The other boy had gotten upset earlier and had to go back to the room which left my little man on his own for his big solo debut! His teacher held the poem up for him and he read every single word in front of the whole class and all of the families. He did a great job!

I thought I took video of his great job but sadly my phone was back in camera mode so it is just a picture. I did get a video of the whole audience cheering for my boy, so that was great! Our team is so wonderful and we know how very lucky we are to have all of them in our corner. They tell us often how much they adore our son and are very outspoken about how far they "just know" he is going to go. Our family of course knows this but when outsiders say it and feel it, it means the world to us!

I am a very proud and grateful-"THANKFUL" Mommy today!
Happy Thanksgiving!

 

I can't believe it wasn't on video!

I checked it!

This is the poem he read. He did great!