Garrett was heading toward the sink to wash his hands as I arrived. He stepped up onto the stool, turned the water on by himself and got soap on his hands. The he begun to scrub his hands together and then as he finished he turned off the water and got down from the stool. He goes over to his teacher and asks to play with the train (a wooden train set). The teacher says yes and as she goes over to get the wooden train out. He half runs over to the block area and sits down waiting on her to bring it over to him. The teacher sets it down and begins taking it out of the box and starts to put it together for him. Garrett says "no, I can do it! He starts to put the train tracks together himself. When he was finished he got a small car and the laid down on his side and started rolling it along the tracks and saying voom, voom as he pushed the car. He played by himself for a while moving from one side of the track to the other. Another child came over and tried to take his car away, Garrett jumps up from the floor and pushes the child away and tell the other child "it's my car". Then he gets back down on the floor and starts to play again. As he has been playing the teacher has been working with the other children to do some painting. She calls his name and asks Garrett if he wanting to paint, Garrett says yes. He starts walking over to the easel where the teacher is at. As he gets to the easel he picks up the paint brush and starts to paint in up and down motions. As he is painting him asks his teacher "I want blue paint" and when she gets him the blue paint he tells her "thank you". .
I was a little late arriving today and the children were already outside. When I got there Garrett was on a bike riding and he was coming down the small incline holding his feet up in the air laughing. When he got to the bottom he put his foot down and started pushing the bike with his feet.
