Grades 5 & 3

The girls headed back to school on Wednesday, August 29th.  Jason got to stay home with me a little longer since the kindergartners didn’t start til after Labor Day.  I tell ya summer break went by so fast, too fast.  We had an amazing summer, but I still feel like we didn’t have enough time to fit in all that I would have wanted.  

Taken just before school let out for the summer – Abigail is somewhere in the orange section and Carly is in green

Abigail couldn’t wait to go school supply shopping when I got home from Hong Kong.  She was so excited about getting everything organized.  I only had one Saturday home to do all our preparing.  In addition to purchasing all their supplies the girls each got haircuts…

I only have a before picture because we got home so late that night.  Carly hadn’t had her haircut since the last back to school haircut.  Carly loves to have her hair done and has learned to put it up or braid it herself which made me surprised by how excited she was to have it chopped off.  I trim Abigail’s hair throughout the year, but her hair was probably the longest it’s ever been.  I’ve only insisted on “doing” Abigail’s hair a handful of times this summer so 95% of the time it looked just like that.

And here are my girls on their first day of school.

We’ve had a few new families move into the homes being built near us so we’ve gotten a bus stop a little closer to our house and there are lots more kids to ride the bus with.  This also means the kids have a normal sized bus instead of the cute little bus they’ve rode on in previous years.

Both girls have teachers that participate in team teaching.  For example, one teacher will teach writing and social studies while another teacher teaches them math and science.  It works great for my girls and I like the idea that the teachers become more specialized in certain subjects.

We’re eight days into this year (though the girls missed last Friday so we could go camping over Labor Day weekend) and both seem to be enjoying school so far.  They both lucked out and even have a friend (or two) from the neighborhood in their class.