Keeping Up With...Family (First Day of School)

The older two boys started school on Wednesday August 19th this year.  They both had big changes for this year!  AJ is in 3rd grade this year which in our district means a new elementary school.  In our family this also means riding the bus since the school isn't down the street anymore.  And Daniel is in 1st grade which means all day school for him.

They both got to go in on the Tuesday before school and meet their teacher, see the classroom, find their desk/locker and drop off their school supplies.  They were both very excited after this, so excited that they were up at 6am on Wednesday morning!  (Yawn!)

Both boys had a great first day and came home very excited about the school year.  I am a little overwhelmed with how much homework AJ is supposed to do in 3rd grade but we will figure it out as the year goes on.  I met Daniel's teacher and am excited for a great year with her.  Adrian took AJ to meet his teacher and said she seems great as well.

Zak will start preschool in September, he can't wait!  Once he starts and I have a few hours each week without kids I will start volunteering in both AJ's and Daniel's classrooms.  I love being in the classroom and working with the kids.

The rest is basically a photo dump of the pictures I took on the first day of school.  Enjoy!

Waiting for the bus...

 

Getting on the bus...

Daniel's teacher sent this home with him.  I thought it was adorable.  We didn't use it.  Who the hell wants to take a chance that glitter will be all over the bedroom?!?!?!?