This past week was the first week of school, and it could not have gone better. Mary Reese started Kindergarten, and Sara Brooke started 4th grade at the Middle School. They are both very lucky, they have WONDERFUL teachers.
Mary Reese has Mrs. Kenney, and she loves her. The first day I picked her up in the car line, she was upset because she was not ready to read. She did not have any homework this week, but she is learning to read already. She had a couple of words that the teacher wanted to make sure that the students could recognize the letters. Mary Reese wanted to write and sound out the words to be able to read them, so I told her to write them three times. She asked me if she could write them four times because she was going to need to know them before she was 16. She then informed me that Sara Brooke was about to be 16 and already knew the words, so she really needed to study. She took the paper to school the next day that had the words on them so she could show Mrs. Kenney, and she brought it home and showed me, she was so proud. Mrs. Kenney had drawn a smiley face on it and wrote "AWESOME!", needless to say, Mary Reese was very proud.
Sara Brooke was very nervous starting at a new school, and she only knew a couple of people in her class and was not sure who she was going to hang out with at Snack and Lunch. She has since made new friends, and is loving everything about school. She has Mrs. Blackmon for homeroom, Language Arts and Alabama History. She has Mrs. Alms for Science and Math. I think the fact that she has more than one teacher is very cool. A good friend of ours is the PE coach, and she could not think of Stacy's last name to call her Mrs. Lipscomb. She is learning volleyball and thinking that she might play for the Raiders when she gets into 6th grade. She had her first test on Friday, and needless to say, she made an A.
Both are doing great and loving school, which makes me very happy.
