Back to School 2012

We made it through the first week of school!  While I like having the kids home in the summer, it's so nice to be back in a routine again.

All kids, ready to go for the day

The Angry Birds bunch (they planned to all wear their Angry Birds shirts)

Jackson started 8th grade this year (how is that possible?).  He has a new band teacher--hopefully she'll be as good as the teacher he previously had.  Besides the usual math, English, science and social studies, he's also in Phy. Ed., FACS (Family and Consumer Science--where they're learning to cook), and Industrial Arts this semester.  Next semester he'll take keyboarding, health and art besides the core classes.

Grade 8

Grade 7

Raina is in 3rd grade.  She's always had a small class of around 15 kids.  Two kids moved and one stayed in second grade, but three new students (all girls!) joined the class.  She got 20/20 on her first spelling test and is happy to be back at school.

Grade 3

Grade 2

Remy started kindergarten.  There's only one kindergarten class in the school, and they go all day every day.  He seems to like it and has come home with a big smile on his face every day.  The first day he took a lunch from home, he told me after school I forgot to give him a sandwich.  I did send him one, but I didn't explain that his lunch box had two compartments--the sandwich was in the bottom part!  We laughed, and he ate his sandwich after school instead.

Kindergarten

Preschool

Ollie is 3 1/2 and won't go to preschool until next year.  He gets to stay home with me, where we exercise together in the morning (it's pretty cute watching him try to follow along with my exercise DVD's!), play lots of Guess Who, his favorite game, and run errands together.  He was happy that I bought him a pencil box for him to put extra school supplies in, and gave him a notebook for him to draw in.

3 1/2 years old

2 1/2 years old

Waiting for the bus

Off they go!