Back To School

Michayla, Tyler, and Kyle all started school On August 26. Michayla started the 7th grade at Stanley Middle School in Lafayette. Tyler started the 7th grade at Sequoia Middle School in Pleasant Hill, and Kyle started the 1st grade at Wren Avenue here in Concord. `I am fortunate that I only have to pick up the older kids in the afternoon so my morning schedule is really easy but the afternoons are LONG! Michayla is enjoying her schedule and goes to each class everyday. Tyler's school has block scheduling where they go to 4 classes each day. He is not enjoying the schedule very much but is enjoying his classes. He has 1 day of 2 electives, PE, and History, and 1 day of 4 academic classes, at least he has 2 days to complete the homework! Both Michayla and Tyler are taking Spanish this year. Hopefully they will be able to help each other with their homework over the coming years. Kyle was lucky to have both his best friends from kindergarten in his 1st grade class again so he is really liking 1st grade so far. His teacher must not have known they were such good friends because she sat them all by each other. At back to school night I asked how Kyle was doing (it was on the 5th day of school) and she told me he was doing good but he turns around and talks to Porfi and Joey a lot. Big surprise there! My kid talk? I don't know what she is talking about. Kyle still gets pulled out of class for speech and Occupation Therapy. The whole class goes to different classrooms for English. They are separated by different levels and it not only helps English as a second language but helps with vocabulary. Hopefully this will continue for reading groups.