School, School, School!

This picture is from the last day of Kindergarten with his teacher, Mrs. Hugelier. She was wonderful. She is totally in the right profession for her. She is kind and caring and has very good, creative solutions for dealing with crazy kids. Ha! Evan truly loved her and so did I.

He completely exploded in his reading around the middle of the year and over the summer he read all 46 (47?) of the Magic Treehouse books. Plus all the research guides. Plus probably 15 more chapter books and tons and tons of picture books. It's been hard to keep him in books and to find ones that are at the right age level that are interesting to him that he hasn't read. But it's exciting!

This is from his first day of first grade! This picture totally cracks me up! They wear uniforms and part of that is no Crocs. Well, that's about all Evan would wear if he could so we actually had to get him some socks (thanks, Sarah!). So here he is with his socks meeting up with his shorts. And even better than that...his church shoes! I was in complete and total denial that school was starting so soon and I didn't have him try on his shoes from last year (that literally just about never got worn) until the Sunady before school started. They didn't fit very well and I wasn't able to go get him new shoes before the first day of school. With my level of denial, it's a wonder I had his school supplies, lunch packed and the right clothes set out. Ha!

So he's going to a Spanish immersion charter school called Arco Iris. It's a small school, only first through fifth grades, with smaller class sizes than the rest of the public schools are sporting right now, it seems. I'm happy about that. I'm also happy that he's learning Spanish. I think he and Michael are really going to enjoy this together. Plus, it's a challenge for his brain. As he stated, "Mom, I haven't learned anything since preschool." Unfortunately, that's pretty true. When he has hard days at his new school I just remind him that at least his brain is being challenged right now. I also like the philosophies of their math curriculum, Singapore Math. It's been a rough start to the year (seven hours in school instead of only 2 1/2, the Spanish immersion is really hard and frustrating the first couple of months) but I'm hopeful for the rest of the year.