Schools Back From Summer

Summer is over and the school year has begun.  We had a pretty good summer and will hopefully post some pictures soon.  We took a few trips.  Some were successful and others not so much.  But Labor Day is over and school has started.  Genevieve has moved into third grade and Sophie has started kindergarten.  Both Genevieve and Sophie took martial arts lessons during the summer and will be continuing that through the rest of this year.

Genevieve was a little nervous but tried not to show it; however, after two days, she declared that these were the best two days of school...ever.  It is nice to see that she is even keeled and doesn't go in for hyperbole.  She is back in girl scouts and I hear they are going to visit a farm where they might get dirty.  Hopefully Genevieve will be able to teach them a thing or two.  Genevieve is trying to be more responsible.  She has packed her lunch twice and is almost to the point of entirely making it herself.  I'm curious to see how long this lasts but I like the trend.

Sophie seems to be completely unfazed by going to school.  She is approaching kindergarten with the same reckless abandon that she approaches everything else: full speed ahead with her head down ready for impact.  The kindergarten center let the kids come last Thursday to check out the classroom to help acclimate them to kindergarten.  We thought it was going to be a meet the teacher event but the teacher was not even there.  There was a note on the board welcoming the students and asking them to write their name if they were able to.  Sophie walked up to the board, read the instructions and proceeded to write her name.  One of the mothers in the room was dumbfounded and stared at Sophie with a shocked expression.  Carrie learned that they are supposed to be starting phonics on Friday.  If the teacher makes Sophie do phonics there's going to be some s'plainin' to do. 

Jonah doesn't start school until next week but he was really annoyed that he couldn't ride the bus with Sophie on the first day (or at all).  Sophie has only had one day of kindergarten so far so I'm sure his level of frustration will grow.  We'll see how his first day goes next week.