First Day of School 2009

The post you have all been waiting for - first day of school.

It has been a crazy month of August while I have been frantically getting my room ready at the new(ish) middle school. We have taken over the old high school. I like my room even though it is considerably smaller.

It is hard for me to enjoy getting my kids ready on the first day as I am in a rush to be ready for my own students to arrive. This year Jason did the duties and took them all to school and to Ms. Molly's.

By the end of the day, Jason had finally sent me an email telling me about the morning. I was hysterically laughing and my advisory kids just looked at me like I had lost my mind - not anything new to them though.

Jason wrote:
While Ally and Drew were eating, I picked up Tana to start her bottle….ended up with an handful of s__t. She has a new outfit on…mine luckily survived.

Drew entertained us with his repertoire of standards jokes, but also added in an impression of a fish doing sign language. (by the way, did you know that one of our fish is currently named 'for free')

Parked at the back of a FULL parking lot and fought the crowd of parents escorting their kids to class and taking pictures at the door, the locker, their desk. Thought to myself that all these other parents were insane…….as I took out the camera and took pictures by the front of the building, at the lockers….

Ally basically couldn't get rid of me fast enough once we put her backpack in her locker. She kept trying to leg-hug me and run off to her room. I finally got a good hug at the entrance to her 'learning center' and sent her in.

Pictures from the day...
Our 1st grader! She is in Mrs. Matuska's class. She gets to see her kindergarten teacher as she also moved to North Bend Elem!

She has her own locker - just her size!

When did he get so big? Only 4 but this year might as well be his kindergarten year! He eats lunch with the big kids, he goes to music and before and after school with the older kids. Wow guess I won't have to cry next year.

He also has his own locker!

With the middle school move this year, we had to part ways. It is sad but they have their own place. I couldn't keep watch over them forever (even though sometimes I would like to!) They are open enrolled at North Bend Elementary - still in the Clear Creek Amana School District. It is on our way to work and only a few minutes from our house - so far after 4 days we love it!