Watch us grow!
Today was the first day of our new drop-off routine. Dada takes both kids to school in the van, drops off the van at home, and then walks to catch the 8:30am ferry. Today, a fellow passenger asked Dada “Where’s your daughter today?” Looks like Dada is not the only one missing her.
These two dudes are always playing together at school.
Janie is officially a kindergartener!! Her first day at Amelia Earhart School was today and it was went well!
Mama and Dada took the day off and we walked along the lagoon to get to school.
Here she is in front of the Amelia Earhart statue.
We arrived at the playground and she hung up her backpack.
There were only a few minutes to play on the playground and there were SO MANY people there in one place. At 8:20am, her teacher came out to greet everyone and they all went inside Room 14.
Parents were invited to spend the first hour in class so we got to see all 24 kids sitting on the rug together for their instructions. Their names were called one at a time to go find their desks.
Janie’s seat was right next to her pal Gavin! There were 4 projects to complete: a name tag with beads, a racoon mask, rainbow name, and two coloring pages.
She completed all the activities pretty much on her own and loved using the new school supplies that she got in the pencil box on her desk. The PTA supplied new crayons, a pair of scissors, a glue stick, pencil, and the pencil box.
What a great first day in Ms. Kuoch’s class! She also spent the afternoon in AIK (Alameda Island Kids) afterschool program. Luckily Gavin is also going there so the transition was super easy.
She came home with her projects including a lesson on the solar eclipse that occurred today. She also got special glasses to view the eclipse outside.
Today was Janie’s last day in the Whale Class. She rode the ferry with Dada one last time. Every morning, she does two workbook pages (front and back) and then gets some time on her iPad.
At school, she signed her name before heading inside the classroom.
They rode the bus back to Alameda to meet Mama at her new school. Then, we picked up Peanut and headed to dinner at Trabocco.
Before heading home, we stopped at Trader Joe’s and Safeway to stock up for our neighborhood BBQ tomorrow.
Janie scored a strip of stickers from the nice man at TJs and shared with her brother while waiting in line at Safeway.
This evening, Janie had her Kindergarten Assessment with her new teacher.
After the short assessment, she got a tour of the classroom.
Maya (Zoe’s little sis) visited the Butterfly class today and Peanut met up with her during outside play. They will be classmates starting in September!
This evening was Janie’s last ride with Chris, her favorite crew member. As a special treat, he brought her into the pilot room to meet the captain. So fun!!
School likes so much fun for this guy.
Peanut made some music with his pal Andersen today.
This evening, we visited Janie’s new school to pick up packets and to find out who her teacher will be. She took the bus with Dada and played on the playground while Mama was on her way. At the event, we found out that she will have Ms. Kuoch (pronounced “Coach”) and she’ll be in the same class as her pal Gavin!!
Afterward, they all played on the Kindergarten playground. We had no idea that Janie already knew how to cross the monkey bars on her own!!