First day of fourth grade (was yesterday)
Duchess loves the new school year. She loves being in fourth grade. She loves her locker. She loves her teacher. She loves her math teacher, who is French and loves nature.* She is amazed to have TWO male teachers this year (the only other male staff at the school are the custodian, two part-time janitors, and one educational assistant). The much-loathed music teacher has been replaced. The two kids she most wanted to NOT have in her class are not in her class. Everything is great.
Skipper, who attended kindergarten (with just a small group of classmates) for one hour and had her 30 minute "assessment" (to ascertain if she knows her colors and letters and can count to ten)** yesterday, is feeling cautiously optimistic. Everything is okay. Her first real day of school is on Friday.
* The math teacher pulls the 20 fourth-graders out of the classroom, leaving behind the 11 fifth-graders, and takes them to another room for their special fourth-grade math instruction.
** She does. She can. Cook says she refused to count out loud, but did report the final number correctly.
Skipper, who attended kindergarten (with just a small group of classmates) for one hour and had her 30 minute "assessment" (to ascertain if she knows her colors and letters and can count to ten)** yesterday, is feeling cautiously optimistic. Everything is okay. Her first real day of school is on Friday.
* The math teacher pulls the 20 fourth-graders out of the classroom, leaving behind the 11 fifth-graders, and takes them to another room for their special fourth-grade math instruction.
** She does. She can. Cook says she refused to count out loud, but did report the final number correctly.
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