First Day of School 2019

The is the first time the kids have the same first day of school and at the same school! SO HAPPY!

First day of Kindergarten! What a big girl!

First day of 3rd Grade! That's legit!

Adorableness

On the first day, most people walk over so we can stay for pictures and a little mini-parade into the school, so we ran into our neighborhood besties.

Sahasra is starting 2nd grade and Sohan is starting 4th!

Crazy blacktop chaos at school

This jazz band is always awesome!

Miranda made a new friend at the pre-Kindergarten playdates!

This is the first year James gets to start a class full of friends from a previous school year!

Going into Kindergarten!

It was a great first day!

Last Days of Kindergarten 2017

James is done with Kindergarten! He's so little and basically perfect right now that I would totally stop time if I could (except that Miranda is a threenager so I definitely wouldn't stop time). The Kindergarten Move-Up Ceremony was Monday, and they split the class into two to minimize the craziness, so we really only saw half the class "moving up." They mostly sang a bunch of really funny pop song covers but with new lyrics about entering first grade.

Entering the cafetorium

The principal greeting us

Everybody is ready to sing; James is chatting with some girl he just met.

All the Kindergarteners

Afterward, we went back to the classroom to give Mr. J a gift from the class. It included a big art project from the kids and gift cards to every conceivable thing in our town.

Mr. J seeing his gift

Handprints from all the kids.

Me with my little graduate and little photo bomb

Tuesday, we had some early summer relaxing with his friends Kyle and Nicholas.

Swimming at Kyle's

Snack time!

Thursday was the real last day- a half day. We out him on the bus in the morning, and picked him in the afternoon to leave for Cape Cod.

First and Last Day of Kindergarten

Goodbye kiss from Miranda

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Last Kindergarten bus ride

I asked him about his Kindergarten classes, to get a sense of what his little life was like. The things I knew were that he got on the bus every morning at 8:54 a.m., and school started 9:45. He also had a snack every day at 10:30 and his lunch at 1:30, followed by a brief recess. He got on the bus at 3:15, and after a long time waiting to get on the bus at the end of the day, he'd get home at 4:20-4:30 p.m.

He told me that: "Mondays is music in the morning, Tuesdays is art in the afternoon, Wednesday is gym in the morning, Thursday is computer class in the morning and library in the afternoon, Friday is gym in the morning, and on the bus you could sit in the back even if you aren't a 1st grader yet.

My favorite thing is gym because I get to run around a lot. Computer was my second favorite, my third favorite was art, and my last favorite was music."

Class of 2029! (Adult size shirt to wear when he's 18.)

James's Kinder Field Day 2017

Last Thursday, James's Kindergarten class participated in a Field Day against the other Kindergarten classes in their school. So much cuteness!

Opening Ceremonies:

Enterance

The principal greets our class

Kyle, Nicholas, Alaina, James, Caris, and Nolan

We're in the James cheering section

Let the games begin!

1) Obstacle course relay:

James jumping the hurdle


Go Darin!

Go Caris!

2) "Car" relay:

Teacher "car" relay demo

Kyle and James in their "car"

Kyle and James

3) Chicken relay:

Ahahahaha!

Yay Nolan!

4) Train relay:

Mrs. Maloney and Mr. J do a "train" demo

Kyle and James look so happy


Darin and Olivia's train

5) Pizza delivery relay:

Pizza delivery

 

30 minutes or it's free!

6) Save the chicken relay:

Demo

James and Olivia!


Darin and Kyle

The end!

The principal Mrs. G is happy the Kindergarten games are done!

Did we actually win? I didn't even know there was winning. 1st place x 3! (With Emma)

Our class- High School Class of 2029!

Dylan, Nolan, Nicholas, Olivia, Hailey, Vince (hiding), Michael D, 

Aiden (hiding), Harper, Abby, Alaina, Arielle Caris, Darin, James, Liliana,

Sitting: Brayden, Emily, Kyle, Jacob

 
With my little Kindergartener

VIP Day 2017

James's School had a VIP Party. Each kid could pick one favorite person to bring and honor. We didn't actually let James choose though because it wasn't clear to us that it really was for any person, we thought it was a nicely-worded Mother's Day party so as not to leave any kids out that had special situations or moms who couldn't get out of work. Plus, I wanted to go. Actually, most of the kids invited anyone they wanted to invite: mparents, grandparents, even one uncle was invited!

James and Me

 

The About Mom page

Kyle's dad Kevin, Kyle's brother Casey, Kyle, Caris's mom Candace, and Caris

Caris and Candace

Darin and his Dad Brian

The kids gave us a flower when we entered, there was a video about why they loved us, they sang two songs (one was You Are My Sunshine) and then we did a birdhouse craft together. Awesome party! Thanks, Mr. J!

Singing with hand-gestures. So adorable!