It's Time for Kindergarten!

My baby started Kindergarten in August! Can you believe it? We have full day Kindergarten here, so he gets on the bus at 8:00am and gets off at 4:00pm! He loves it, though. His teacher his wonderful (and is even a Bama fan), and he already knew people in his class. There are 2 girls from our neighborhood, and 2 boys from his baseball team in his class. There's even a boy whose little brother was in Jake's Kindermusik class last year!

Starting school was about a 3-day event here, in case you are wondering why he has on 3 different outfits.

They have a great way of introducing the kids to school here. Each kid has a "small group day". They go for a partial day with only about 5-6 kids from their class. It allows the teachers to help them learn about the school, the classroom, and lunchroom procedures on a more individual basis. These are pictures from his small group day...

Before school photo shoot

Outside his school

Walking to his classroom. He looks so tiny in that big hall!

In his classroom before I left my baby for his first day of Kindergarten! He was so completely "Mitch"! No tears, no hesitation...just "Bye Mommy!"

Picking him up from his small group day. Jake was VERY excited to see his big brother. He missed him!

Then there was his first full day with his whole class!

Mitch eating breakfast before his first full day of school

He begged to ride the bus, but Gary and I wanted to take him to his first full day

Mitch with his teacher, Mrs. Conway

My plan was to wait a few days before letting him ride the school bus, but he drove me crazy asking to ride it, and I just gave in. He rode the bus on his second full day of school! Here is my little guy waiting for that great big school bus to pick him up and take him to school.

Getting on the bus for the first time

He made it!!!! Here he is coming home! That's Emma (our neighbor) with him. She's in 2nd grade, and helped him find his class for the first few days.

He's about 2 months in now, and he's doing great! He still loves school, and is learning so much! He knows and can write all of his letters, both upper and lower case, and he knows all of the sounds that they make. He is starting to read. He recognizes a few "sight words" and is doing great at sounding out words. He can count to 100 and adds some small numbers. He recognizes patterns and knows all of his shapes. He gets along well with all of his classmates, and follows directions well. He enjoys doing his homework, but we definitely need to work on his handwriting. We'll working on it though!