This Morning In School

Today we got to school a bit earlier than usual, and because I meant to take some pictures YESTERDAY (when they had Pyjama Day) but of course I forgot to take my camera yesterday ... I decided to snap some pictures today. Below is Jalen in his K-5 classroom, with his class mates and of course his teacher, Ms. Abner. Jalen goes to a private school, Lighthouse Christian Academy, as he wouldn't have made the cut-off date to attend K-5 public school, because he would've turned 5, four weeks after the cut-off date. So, now he is in K-5 (well, since this summer), and it's going well so far ..... we still have some "tally" issues though (the kids get tallies for misbehaving, and it's a way of letting parents know how your child was misbehaving, so you can nip it in the bud) but we're working on those .... it is a work-in-progress. Some days are good, with no tallies, some days are not so good ......

We are planning to enroll Hanna in this school as well once it's time for me to go back to work. I like the school, I like the fact that they teach children already now how to write in cursive, and the fact that they teach the little ones about the Bible and God and all those stories from the First Testament, and the fact that they teach Jalen many Bible verses, because since we don't get to go to church or Sunday school that much, at least Jalen's getting his religious education this way. Also, the very first Bible verse Jalen knew is my favorite one and it's up on this blog "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above."

I have already talked to the school's principal and we will enroll Hanna into K-4 (Hanna's 4 years old) for about a month (in May), then summer school starts, and after summer school she'll be doing K-4 for a whole year. While I didn't think it was necessary for Jalen to re-do K-4, I think it'll be good for Hanna. It'll give her this K-4 year time to adjust, learn English, without the added pressure of K-5. Plus as with Jalen, I wouldn't be able to put Hanna in a public school just yet either, because her birthday is about 10 days after the cut-off date too. Yes, both my children's birthday is in September: Hanna's on the 11th (according to her paperwork) and Jalen's on the 29th. We have quite a few September people in our family: Geno, my mom, and Jalen's older brother.

Meine Lieben, heute habe ich ein paar Photos vom Toti in seiner Schule, in seinem Klassenzimmer mit seinen Freunden und seiner Lehrerin, gemacht. Viel Spass beim gucken. Da in diese Schule wird die Hanna auch gehen. Bis bald, wir reden dann am Telefon oder im Skype ... ich hab Euch lieb und denk an Euch!!!
PS: Ich hab das Paket noch nicht gekriegt, aber bestimmt bald ... vielen vielen lieben Dank!!!

Jalen and his teacher, Ms. Abner.

Ms. Abner with Tarin (her daughter), Jalen and Raquel.

Raquel, Jalen, Alisha, and Elijah

Elijah, Patrick and Jalen