Kindergarten update

Now that we are several months into Kindergarten I wanted to update how Sister is doing.

Overall - fantastic!

Her school is a small private Reggio Emilia school, we love the flexibility of the curriculum, emphasizes on student collaboration and how much the natural world is a part of their daily learning.

After the first month or so we had a conference with her teacher (who she adores!) and she let us know she would like to move Charlotte over to the 1st grade side (the classrooms are one big room that come together and separate through out the day) for her reading and spelling work. She has done so well and loves the challenge!

She had made friends with pretty much all the kids in Kindergarten and first grade and her teacher said she plays well during free time with them and is always helping other kids who need it.

Besides the academic stuff she is learning how to be in a bigger more independent classroom than she was in for preK

They have what they call "specials" or additional subjects - music, Mandarin Chinese, library, forest day, art, Spanish and fitness. Her favorite is art but she seems to enjoy them all.

The nature component of her school was a big draw for us, not only for her but for when Cooper is old enough to attend as well. That boy could live outside so I want to keep that for him since its so important to him.

Im so glad that she is excelling at school and growing so much. I do miss her during the day and some of the stuff we were able to do when our schedule was more open. And girlfriend is TIRED at the end of the day. We have had to make some adjustments in the evenings to help her out because we had some rough days. Its a lot of work growing up :)

xoxo
Ashlea