First Day of School

I can't believe I have a girl old enough to go into 5th grade!

And my little 1st grader!


3rd grade already?!

Preschool begins on Thursday...not quite ready to let him go yet.

"Enough pictures already, Mom!"

Breakfast to go--chocolate chip muffins! Yumm-o!

And I'm thinking the sugar went to his head cause he was just crazy hyper the whole way to school and the whole way home. Or maybe he likes the idea of just him and me. :)

So some cool things about the new school year:

1. The kids will have spelling. It's not required here and so they haven't had it since we moved here. We're VERY excited. Spelling tests every week! (truly, the kids really are excited!)

2. Part of homework is reading a minimum of 20 min per day. "Yes!!!! All right!" was Julia's reply. She's halfway into the second Percy Jackson book and is given a legit excuse to finish it (like she needed an excuse!). Jacob and Evelyn are excited about weekly trips we will make to the library to pick out new books to read. Oh, and no skipping out--they have reading logs to fill in and for me to sign each night. :)

3. All first graders will have a resource day every other Wednesday. The kids will circulate among the seven first grade classes (yeah, it's a big school). Each teacher will be teaching one of these different topics: art, TRIBES, science inquiry, Hawaiian culture, health/nutrition, and Japanese language..........dude, my little girl is going to learn Japanese! I can't wrap my head around that!