Nathan started Second Grade at Deer Crossing and has Mrs. Law this year. We all walked him up to the bus stop and watched him get on the bus. He was excited to see his friends again, but not so thrilled about going back to school!
Nathan filled out a paper titled "How I Feel About the First Day of School." The object was to complete smiley faces in sentences to show if you feel "Awesome,"
"Okay" or "Bad" about them. Nathan's paper read like this: "My new classroom looked OKAY when I first walked in this morning. My new teacher is AWESOME. The cafeteria food was OKAY today. I felt AWESOME about the new friends I met today. Reading is going to be BAD. Math is going to be AWESOME. The best part abuot today was RECESS. The worst part about today was SOCIAL (Social Studies.) I feel BAD about my first day of school."
Tate is attending Pre-Kindgeraten 5 days a week at Deer Crossing this year and is in Mrs. Garabedian's AM class. He has the privilege of being able to ride the bus to and from school, although he rides a different bus than Nathan. Tate's bus is scheduled to come 20 minutes after Nathan's, but on the first day of school it was over 20 minutes late!!! We had given up on the bus and had started putting the kids in the car to drive him to school when it finally showed up! But Tate ran for the bus like a pro and made it on with no real issues! He made it home on the mid-day bus and had a big grin on his face when he got off! I know he really liked having his Speech Therapist, Mrs. Milstead with him for the first day of school. That helped him to feel a lot more comfortable in his classroom full of unfamiliar people and unfamiliar things. He won't talk about school, but I think from the reports I get from his teachers that he's having a great time!
