Aug
12
School Girl has been a 2nd grader for an entire week. For everyone who is preparing the inevitable “OMFG that’s too early!!!” comments, let me just say you’d be preaching to the choir here. You don’t want to get me started on that subject. Really.
Her classroom is closest to the door, almost exactly where her 1st grade class was save for the location of the hallway. Last Wednesday Evil Dad and I walked School Girl over, along with 2 bags filled with school supplies. This year, parents were allowed to go in and help carry the bags-o-stuff into their classroom. Last year, we had assessments/form completion time for the first two days of school, so parents were expected to go in and helped set up all the supply stations.
I also got to briefly meet the teacher. She’s an older, much more experienced teacher, with an East Coast attitude. I like her already, and I think School Girl likes her too. They’ve been busy this past week setting up the classroom, doing “getting to know you” activities, and generally doing what they can without actually breaking the kids into ability groups right away.
School Girl has loved, and really needed, getting back to her routine of school-reading-evening stuff. Without getting too involved, it’s been an upside-down sort of summer here; so a return to some sort of normal is very welcome indeed.
We talked about her reading level last night. Apparently it’s even higher than it was last spring, which opens up the possibility of letting her read some of my favorite SF books from when I was a kid. I think we might give this one a try, primarily to try to counteract some of the things she’s been watching on TV/at the movies this summer. It’s nice, and rare, to see an intelligent girl as the hero in any sort of story; and frankly, the plot of this one is pretty damn cool. I haven’t decided whether I’ll be reading it to her or letting her give it a shot on her own.
I must admit I’ve always been kind of weirded out by the going back to school half-way thorough a year. It seems so odd!
Is it because summer falls in the middle of the year?
I think we have the shortest summer break of the schools who aren’t year-round here. It began June 5, and ended August 5. So that’s been kind of disappointing – but they make up for it by never going for longer than 2 weeks without at least 1 day off. Right up until May. *sigh*
It *is* weird – even with your winter in the same months as our summer, it’s still weird.