back to school

On August 4, 2011, Lewis started kindergarten! This is him coming out that first day with a picture of a car on his head (because he's a car-rider). He seemed to have a good day, and has been enjoying it so far. He is in a cluster with first and second graders, so that he has different teachers for reading and math and his kindergarten teacher covers writing. He also gets to visit many other special classes like computers, art, music and even Chinese.

Lewis was kind of surprised to see his old friend, Mr. Patrick, back to help out as his instructional assistant. It's pretty convenient to have someone who already knows Lewis helping him through each day. He's also made some "friends" and allows other kids to give hugs or sit with him at lunch.

This boy, Jeremiah, had been helping Lewis reach the soap when he needed to wash hands. We were sad that he transferred to another school a couple weeks ago. Lewis still says, "Jeremiah is at a new school," here or there. Lewis has already been to a friend's birthday party, and we have run into classmates at the fountain recently too. Lewis doesn't tell us much about what is going on at school, but he seems to like it and they all seem to like him too, which is a huge relief for us.

Owen started preschool on August 15, 2011. He had been riding in the van, dropping Lewis off for over a week and was getting frustrated that he couldn't go.

Here is Mrs. Brandy showing him his cubby. He was a little sad that first day, but has gone willingly and sings songs from school and tells me random facts or things his teachers said. Most of it doesn't make lots of sense out of context, but I like that he tries to communicate about his day. He has been a bit of a bear when he does come home, but overall it is going really well, and we know that he is in great hands at PBC.