New School Year

My daughter is very excited to be in 2nd grade.   Second grade sounds so OLD to me because I when I taught school I always taught Kinder and 1st.  I would tell my students about becoming big second graders.  Now, I am the parent of a big second grader and I'm still in disbelief.   Of course, I remember graduating from college and getting married like it was yesterday.    That was a short 12 years ago.  Enough of my ramblings, here's the picture.

My daughter heading to second grade and my son heading to one final year of homeschool Pre-K. 
For the grandparents:
The report from school is that she LOVES her teacher.   She LOVES her classmates.   She had a blast, went to P.E., had recess before lunch, finished all her work, started a book she hopes to finish in the next couple of days, and brought home homework for herself and me.  She is now working on her "me" bag due Wednesday.   She is put items in it that represent herself.   So far, she has added a play camera because she loves to take pictures.   She also added a miniature violin to represent her playing.  Buttons and fabric were added to represent that she likes to sew.   She is bugging me for pictures.  School is good and she is a big school nerd like her Mom. 

My son and I continued our year round homeschooling.  He got new sight words today.  We started a new Bob book.  We patterned using unifix cubes.   I somehow forgot to do this.   He enjoyed it and now there are trails of unifix cube patterns all over my living room floor.  I'm skipping Handwriting until all my materials come in from Handwriting without Tears.   I need to add back in our literature study which is science based and this will complete our curriculum. 

I'm off to get my daughter to practice violin.   We usually do within the first hour she is home from school or we don't have a good practice session. 

Happy First Day of School 2011!