First Day at a NEW School

Asa, Ben and Sophie started school today, 2 week after the County School District. They started a New Charter school in town and these 3 are lucky enough to be some of the first students to attend!

We know Ben's teacher really well, and the kids know Sophie's teacher as she was a sub at their old school. And all of the grades (it is a k-8 school) are learning Spanish, built in to the curriculum! And they have Uniforms! Made school shopping nice and easy and a little easier on the pocket book!

The kids were All VERY excited to go to school today. I think they were a little bored with all of their friends in school already!

First Day of School

Katy started 7th grade this year, Wow!

This is Junior High where I'm from ('they' call it Middle School here because the illustrious school board, well...let's not get into that!) They start at 7:30 in the MORNING, ugh (from Katy AND Mom!) (again, the school board. And Again, we won't get into that!)

Band is now a regularly scheduled class, Katy has 2 lockers-one in the hall and one for PE. Katy is taking Pre-Algebra (an 8th grade course).

She can't wait for soccer to start, again! And Dance!

Oh, and her birthday is coming up, and she has a list a mile long for Who to invite!

I can hardly believe how grown up our Doodlebug is getting!

May becomes INSANE around here!

EVERYTHING wraps up in May, so we get to run around CrAzY for the whole month!

Dance Recital May 17th: Sophie in Pre-Clogging dancing to "It's a Hard Knock Life"...

She is an Adorable little Orphan!

Katy's class danced to Cheetah Girls' "Dance Me If You Can"

Followed by Concert #3 (we didn't attend #2, it was a school assembly concert!)

Denny's already Wiped out!

Sophie's Daisy Troop wrapped up their year of scouting by gardening the Church's flower beds on May 21!

Ben & Asa (and Denny's) Pack wrapped their year up with the annual Cross Over Ceremony, also on May 21!

The younger classes at the kids' school 'grew' their own Butterflies! May 22 was "release" day, after they all got to 'hold' the butterflies in a mesh tent!

And Asa's grade performed in...

And Soccer Season FINALLY wrapped up on May 23!

Ben completed another year of Soccer, with Dad as assistant Coach!

Sophie's U5 team, with Dad as The Coach!

Asa played this season, also, but with Mom and Dad running to and fro, neither one of us caught a snap shot of his playing! And His Team Photo is Professional, so, you'll just have to take my word for it, Asa played and played Well!

Here is Katy's Team, again, Dad is the assistant Coach! Bless these two men for volunteering to coach 13-10 & 11 year olds Girls! The Hormones flying on these fields, Wow!

In the middle of all of this, Our Sophie turned 6!!

The last day of school, saying good bye to al of our friends!

Whew! We survived-all of the extra dance classes, just to make sure we're ready for recital; 5 days a week of soccer, 3 of those nights there were usually 2 different practices going on; Scout meetings; Homework-don't the teachers Know? we have all of these extra activities going on Every evening, it sure seemed like Katy & Asa had more homework these last few weeks, than they've had at any other time all year!

Now, we get to relax for the summer, right?!

Ben's Reading Performance!

Ben is in the 2nd grade. He had a lot of difficulty reading at the beginning of the school year and has really been struggling to improve.

Monday night, the school district put on 'ELKO COUNTY READS' night-I really don't know how to describe what this is, but basically it is to try to get kids to read more. There are booths/tables set up at one of the local schools, books, books & books for the kids, GS interests, seeing eye dog info, mining info, BLM info, etc...

In the gym, classes and individuals performed readings!

Ben's class performed Aesop's Fables. 2-3 kids at a time stepped up to the microphones and read their fable. Ben's group read the Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. He read his part very clearly and without stumbling. We are so proud of Ben for working so hard to be able to read and to be able to read out loud in front of 4-6 dozen people! Another WAY TO GO, BEN!!!

First Day of School

School started on August 18, 2008. Katy is in the 6th Grade and attends the remodelled JR High, now the intermediate school Flagview. Asa is in 3rd Grade, Ben is in 2nd Grade, and Sophie started Kindergarten-all three of them attend Northside School. Can you believe it?!