France New Jersey

L.J. had a great first month of Pre-K! He is like a sponge, soaking up all sorts of new knowledge. We have been amazed at all of the new facts he has been sharing with us about various things.

On the way home the other day, he told me all about the Statue of Liberty. The word of the week was metropolis and they were studying “New York Island.” (Is it just me, or is that not the most random way of referring to NYC??) He told me that the Statue of Liberty was green because she was outside, she sat in the water, carried a tablet and had a crown with “4 spikes!”. After he told me about Lady Liberty, he also excitedly told me about subways that are like trains but underground, and have lights so you don’t get scared.

I was floored. This is a child who typically responds to questions about his day with either “Fine” or “I don’t know.”

Later that evening, I prompted him to tell Nana and Poppa all about New York Island. Poppa asked him a tough question, “Do you know where the Statue of Liberty came from?” “A gift from France New Jersey,” L.J. quickly and confidently replied.

I’m not quite sure where France New Jersey is located, but the Statue of Liberty was indeed a gift from France.

A few days later, I was reading a book to Hannah on the couch. She was pointing to animals and I was identifying them. “That is a fox,” I told her.

“Foxes live in the arctic and they are white,” proclaimed L.J. from several feet away.

I am loving seeing our inquisitive, curious L.J. show such enthusiasm about learning!

He is also working really hard on both identifying and writing letters and numbers. My favorite: He knows the letter L and currently writes it like a backwards seven, and he also knows the letter H for Hannah. When he practices his letters, we get pages of L’s and H’s sent home and he is always quick to say the L’s are for Landon and the H’s are for Hannah’s name. All the feels x1000.

Last but not least, we have a definite sea theme in our home lately. L.J. is really into Octonauts right now. It’s actually a pretty educational show, and he is frequently recreating scenes and sharing random sea facts.

(We also learned after some research one evening, that one of the characters really is named “Tunip” – prounounced Too-nip – and not “Turnip.” Poor L.J. was practically rolling his eyes correcting me, Mike and my parents at the name pronunciation until we figured it out.)