School Days!

You know your kids are growing up when they start Kindergarten. I can't believe the day has finally come.

We decided to send Daniel to Protestant Preschool & Kindergarten instead of entering public school this year. He went there for preschool last year and loved it. We were going to put Raelee there for preschool and got a scholarship to help offset the cost. Which was really good because the other option was to put her back in day care full time so Joshua could find a job, but day care is really, really expensive. So instead we enrolled her in the preschool program, and Daniel in the Kindergarten program, and we're still saving a ton of money. Gotta love it!

Daniel met his teacher last week. Can you believe that he had homework before school even started?! Here he is working on a poster that was all about him--things he likes to do, his family, his favorite place to go, what he looks like when he's happy.

Time for the first day of school! Kindergarten at Protestant Preschool & Kindergarten started on Tuesday, the day after Labor Day. A couple weeks later than public school, but he'll learn just as much if not more since he'll be in a small class-size.

Daniel was happy to be sitting next to Tristan, who was in his preschool class. There are only 12 kids in the kindergarten class, and most of them were in his prescool class, which is very comforting. He was rather nervous about having a new teacher, new room, and so having some of the same friends is something concrete and familiar.

And here is Daniel with his teacher, Mrs. Darden. He really likes her and I know that he's going to have a great year!

And Raelee started preschool today! She was so, so happy. Look at her big smile before we left the house! The preschool uses baskets instead of backpacks to carry lunch boxes & supplies. She picked this one out herself. It's a pretty creamy yellow.

Raelee met her teacher, Mrs. Owen, last week at the open house. Here she is today with Mrs. Owen in her classroom. Raelee told me earlier that she was not going to be shy. Well, that didn't last long because she was definitely shy going into her room! But she told me this evening that she liked her teacher and her class.

Here's a shot of the classroom. What a big girl she's turning into!