Schools in
Well, we are now into the second week of school. The kids seem to have great teachers. Hadley has the same teacher she had when she was in grade 1 and Easton has a new teacher to the school who is great with technology and sends me texts every few days about what they did in class and what I can ask Easton about - I LOVE IT. Currently he is working on zones of regulation, a Wits program about feelings, and gaining class points to earn a classroom fish based on achieving their personal goals, following rules and routines.
Easton's current goals are to sit properly, raise his hand before speaking, and sit quietly in the reading corner.
Grade 5 and grade 2 this year!
Hadley has worked on a self portrait, and some ripped paper art. She is learning the names for mother, father, sister, brother, uncle etc in French. Science, she is learning about cells and Hadley said the 6 grade 5's from the split class join her class. It sounds like for science only. She says she has read a little, wrote about herself and will have a math test on Friday of 0, 1, and 2 times tables with some doubles addition. She said the teacher is working up to see what the class knows.
Back to the first day. The first day was super easy. Hadley was excited with her new kitten outfit, and all the kitten school items we could find, and Easton had new clothes, backpack etc but the feeling I got from him was just thankful he had the stuff he needed.
We took the usual before school photos and arrived about 5 minutes early to the school to briefly see each kid off with their new teachers.
Hadley has 24 kids in her class and Easton has 18, but of course those numbers can change.
Hadley had two of her closest friends change schools this year, so this year will be interesting as she spreads her wings to new friendships. There are two new girls in her class and a few girls from the other class from last year that have been mixed into her class this year.
We have started some new morning routines which Hadley seems to completely have embraced. Easton is still working on it but we are making progress.
Pretty much their morning routine looks like this:
Wake up, get dressed, make bed (this is new this year), washroom, eat, feed cats (Hadley does this, also new to her this year), brush hair (Hadley has been doing a great job with this on her own this year but if she wants her hair up, I help) and teeth, put lunch and water in their backpacks (another new responsibility to them), and then if there is any time left over (there is usually about 25 minutes for them to watch something or play a game on their devices or laptops before they get shoes and coat on, kiss/hug, get on the bus.
Easton has started a speech program at the school where he will get 11 sessions to work on his R and L sounds. He has also had two evaluation skates and should get his team assignment for hockey on or before this Friday to start Saturday. Hadley got a new skating outfit and upgraded skates that I was lucky enough to find used at the skate exchange. They had one pair in her size! She is now into specialized skates! She also starts Saturday.
Brian started a new job at Cognizant. All of these new beginnings! All on the first day of school!
I have been busy at the school. A few days of lunch monitoring, a few days of breakfast boost planning, which is set to start in two weeks, I have started volunteering in the grade 1 class again this year (which happens to be Matthew from next door's class) and next week I am helping out with the book fair.
Plus the regular every day stuff.
The kids have logged into their prodigy accounts (online math program that is awesome) and they are quite pleased with the new changes for the new school year. Yay!
Also my nephew Jayden turned 9. We will celebrate Jensyn and Beckett, who will turn 6 later this month and Jayden, and Easton who will turn 7 all together at Thanksgiving.
All in all, life is good!