The teacher started with circle time where they talked about what the date was (in both English and Spanish), and then they had a question of the day (what kinds of transportation vehicles they had all been on before). She asked a lot of the kids to answer the question directly, including Aaron, and I was happy that he actually answered as I had coached him pretty heavily about being polite and answering the questions he was asked. Then they sang some songs and had a quick game of Freeze Dance. She then broke the class into three groups, a math center, a choice center (free play basically), and PE. Normally she would have had two academic centers and not just one but was short a parent volunteer.
We went with the PE group first, which was led by the parent volunteer, and it was just free play outside, not organized games or anything. Afterwards his group went to the math center, and Aaron did really well. Each child was given a paper bag filled with colored blocks that interlocked. The task was to build towers by attaching the blocks of the same color together (3 red blocks, 4 blue blocks, etc). Then they were to sort the towers in order from tallest to shortest. Lastly, they were to color in squares on a grid sheet corresponding to their towers. So, the task involved sorting, counting, and conceptual thinking.
Now, granted, Aaron had two of us (Michael and I) keeping him on task, but honestly he did really really well on his own and only needed help when he got to the grid part. Translating the concept of what he had built to coloring it on paper was a bit advanced for him. But no trouble building or sorting his towers. He did better than at least 3 of the other kids in the group of 6 kids .
At this point it was snack time, so we excused ourselves.
Aaron liked the visit and his special day, but he definitely made a point about not being big enough yet to go to this new school.
