First Week Highlights

It was such a wonderful week! Samara absolutely loves school. She doesn't want to go to the bathroom because she said she might miss something and won't know what to do when she gets back to the room. She broke my heart.
Yesterday she said the walked to the big room to listen to Mrs. Willis. I asked what Mrs Willis talked about. She said Mrs. Willis explained all the rules, but Samara couldn't remember any of the rules. I'm sure she will do just fine even if she can't remember all of the rules.
Another funny thing that happened is that she has come home with her lunch only 10% eaten. She says they have only one minute to eat!
The best thing about this week is that she has earned "morado" for the second time this week! Once again, she came home with an item from the treasure box. I am so proud of her. She is off to an excellent start.
I can hear her mumbling in Spanish. As Dr. Krashen would say, she is rehearsing by using her language din!
As for Jedadiah, he is happy that his second grade teacher, Sra. Puentes speaks English and that they have a long lunch break. Yesterday he played soccer for a long time and came home starving and ate two bowls of shrimp!
I have to say, it will definitely be a different experience going through dual immersion kinder with my daughter since she has so many stories to share! I look forward to sharing them here in this blog. 

Black Belt

He tested two weeks ago before school started. He did so well remembering the required 8 senior level forms, the 50-step hand technique and breaking 4 boards with his hand and jumping over 5 children to break a board with his foot!  He will get the actual belt after the results are sent to South Korea and eveything is correctly documented!

First Day on the playground

She was so happy to play before school started. She said the playground has no monkey bars. I said not every student can hang and flip like you.

Second grade & Kinder

Jedadiah is full of advice and encouragement for his sister who is starting in Kindergarten. He didn't want to go to school, but was fine when we got to school. His said his second grade teacher speaks English and Spanish, so that made him happy!

Lining up

He is hiding his face, but he is in line to go into the second grade classroom but his buddy. They are happy to be in the same classroom this year.

Treasure Box

This is was she selected from the treasure box for having such great behavior and earning "Morado" on the behavior chart.

A New School Year "Morado"

Well after a year of not writing, I have decided to pick up the "pen" once again. This year my son is in second grade, and my daughter has started Kindergarten. I didnt' write last year, because I could never figure out how to retrieve the photos from my mobile device. So, I don't know how many pictures I will be able to post this year, but I will keep trying to solve the problem. She came home yesterday with lots of stories to tell. Girls tend to me more vocal than boys, so I thought I should write down what she shares with me. She said that in kindergarten, students don't have time to go to the bathroom. So, she didn't go all day long. I told her that she can ask her teacher if she needs to go potty, and Sra. Oliver will allow her to go. Also, she came home with a full lunch pail...minus her bag of cherries. She thought lunch time was snack time, and she left her lunch box in the classroom. When she entered the cafeteria some one asked her if she had money. She said no, but was given some pizza and some fruit. She thought that was awesome. I reminded her this morning to take her lunch pail to the cafeteria. She said that she learned the Spanish alphabet and the numbers from 1 to 5 and then proceeded to say the numbers in Spanish. When I picked her up yesterday afternoon, she was holding a large Hello Kitty Stuffed Animal. I must have looked confused, so the teacher said to me "Morado". This means that Samara was well behaved and moved her name up from Verde to Morado, and she could select a treasure from the box. I couldn't believe my little girl earned Morado on the very first day of school! WOW....now I owe her a trip to Taget so she can pick a small reward too.