Starting School

Caiden started preschool a couple of months ago and is loving every minute of it. He is attending at the Haak'u Learning Center. He is having a blast. He is the furthest along in his class academically but can you believe they told me I needed to 'cut the apron strings'? I guess I do tend to protect him a bit.... So with him attending an all native school (except for him and one other little boy) his teacher didn't want him to feel left out when they started talking Keresan and calling each other by their Indian names. He needed an Indian name too! His name at school is Ka'shesh. It means 'White Corn'. We got a kick out of it because he is the white corn in the Indian corn crop.... FUNNY!
He is pre-reading and we expect that he will be reading in the next couple of months. It is amazing to listen to my 3 year old sounding out words by himself. His progress is truly amazing and awe inspiring! He knows all of his letters with their basic sounds and we are working on vowels right now too. He is a genius in our eyes! He gets that from his daddy for sure.

Caiden is learning two other languages right now as well. Keresian which is the Pueblo Language and Portuguese which Scott is teaching him.

He speaks both Keresan and Portuguese better that I do. He sings songs, says prayers and is learning basic vocabulary in Keres while he is at school.

At the end of scriptures, a book (usually Berenstain Bears)and prayers in Portuguese, Caiden and Scott have a phrase that they always say. (I am going to butcher this next part.) Isso é tudo por hoje a noite. It means "That is all for tonight."