I have better images on my camera… in the car lol
My boys are off to second and third grade.
Dorian made the gifted and talented class this year! I was told all the kids in that class are smart – some naturally, some because their parents push them (my friend was room mom in the boys class last year, so she knows a lot of the kids) and I was also told that we’re probably the only two laid back moms in the room. Yep, my boy is that annoying kid who just “gets it” without trying too hard. I hope he is challenged this year. I also hear they are doing multiplication and geometry the first week! The teacher seated Dor and his best bud together, and has been told she should split them up ASAP. She said she was giving them a couple of weeks before she moves them around.
Malachai’s teacher has taught kindergarten for the past five years… I’m not sure how she will do in a room full of second graders. I only requested he not have the teacher Dor had last year – that would have been a wreck! I don’t know anything about his teacher other than that though. She seemed nice enough.
Eshiva went to her first day of Pre-K today. She bopped right out of the car and was on her way. No tears, no nothing. She was so excited to make her own friends. I am so proud of her. She is so social, and so intelligent – I’m glad we decided to send her this year instead of waiting for K.
My cousin is working on her masters in childhood education and was in town this weekend and spent an hour with Eshiva for one of her papers. She said E “tested” at a first grade reading readiness level. Either the bar has really dropped or E is a smarty pants. Guess which way I am leaning? 
