School Days

My boys started school earlier this month. They both love it and are very blessed to have wonderful teachers. Blaise's teacher is a first year teacher, but she seems to be so good and very enthusiastic. I asked his speech teacher how things seemed to be going when she would go into the classroom to get Blaise. She very enthusiastically told me what a wonderful teacher he has and described how the kids are enjoying 1st grade so much and are learning but having so much fun doing so. I have also been very impressed with her when talking with her. Tomorrow I will be able to go with Blaise on an all-day field trip, and I am very much looking forward to that.

Isaac's 4k teacher also is very enthusiastic about learning and genuinely enjoys each child. Isaac is so excited to go to school each day, and is excited about all he is learning. It is fun to see my less intrinsically-motivated child enthusiastic about learning.

Here are a few pictures from their first couple days of school. First, my first-grader:

I brought Isaac to school the first day so that I could take a picture of him with his teacher (right) and teacher's assistant (left):



Most other days now, he rides the bus to school, because it was available. He's only on the bus with 4k kids and really likes riding with his friends. The first day, though, we waited, and waited, and waited...

Apparently she didn't think Isaac would be riding since he hadn't on the first day, so she had to come back for him. But he was all the more excited then when the bus did come.

As I said, I pick my boys up at the end of the day. Blaise decided, and arranged with his teacher, that he would go to Isaac's classroom and walk out of school with him when Isaac's class was ready to go. So they walk out every day holding hands. It's just the cutest thing!



But now that I look more closely at that picture, I really need to bring my camera and take another one - one where it doesn't look like Isaac is picking his nose! Yuck!! :)