24 cupcakes with pink frosting and sprinkles…check! Napkins…check! Camera…check! Time to go watch Carrie celebrate her birthday with her class!
They had a family game night at the primary school this evening, ending in a barn dance in the gym which was actually quite fun. Exhausting, but fun.
Today I had a lunch date with Carrie at the school cafeteria. She was thrilled to have me there, and I hope I can join her another time. The other kids were funny, too – once I helped one of them open something, the rest of them suddenly had something that needed opening! Then I [...]
Tonight we dropped Anna off to play with her friend Nikki and took Carrie to her open house night. I was a little preoccupied with signing up to help out with events at first (and making sure we got a good time slot for parent teacher conferences!) but when I looked around the room at [...]
Carrie is going to have weekly homework assignments which come home on Friday and are due back on Tuesday. The first one was “Summer in a Shoebox”. She had to find 4-8 items that represented memories of things she did over the summer, and put them in a shoebox. They’re going to write or tell [...]
So there have been enough little stories Carrie has volunteered about the past few days that I think she’s probably actually enjoying school, and just might be a little overwhelmed by trying to describe it. Her favorite parts are still recess and riding the bus, but really, who doesn’t like those things? I love the [...]
Today, Carolyn headed off for her first day of Kindergarten! I got up at 6:20, got myself ready and packed a yummy lunch (a ham & cream cheese pinwheel sandwich, baby carrots, grapes, olives, letter pretzels and two tiny vanilla cookies). Then I managed to get the kids dressed early enough that I had time [...]
Carrie’s teacher (along with a lot of the other primary school teachers) had an open house this afternoon. We went and met her teacher and dropped off her supplies, and then she had a chance to ride a bus around the campus. I rode with her, and let me just say that I’m really, really [...]
Last night we went to the primary school orientation. Because Carrie’s in the K/1 multi-age class, she won’t be in the kindergarten building, but instead in the building that houses grades 1-3. So we went, and we learned a bit about how they manage to traffic flow, with all the kids in K-6 riding the [...]
We were going to try to wait until a little closer to school started to go get the things on Carrie’s shopping list, but we were all too excited for new notebooks! And pencils! And pointy-tipped brand spankin’ new crayons! Although it was like a scavenger hunt, trying to find specific colors of pocket folders [...]