Tai was accepted to go to Saratoga Shores this year with Kasen so today was their first day at their new school!
Kasen is in Mz. G's 3rd grade A.L.L. class and Tai is in Miss. Lasson's 1st grade class, just a few doors down from each other.
We went to meet their teachers on Monday and Kasen picked a desk right in the middle because he said that would make it easier to make friends. Last night Tai told me, "My teacher said it's a fun school so we are lucky!" She also noticed that her teacher has her classroom decorated in sunflowers and wants to wear her sunflower dress one day soon because he teacher would probably like that.
Over the summer Kasen had to make a Hero Poster representing himself, that he turned in on back to school night. He gave himself red and black clothes like his favorite colors, drew his Pokemon hat on his head and his CTR ring on his finger, then glued on pictures of a bike, kneeboarding, an F22 Raptor, orange chicken and The Last Kids on Earth book. We made one for Tai to decorate and hang on her bedroom door too.
He was also given a list of 20 Battle of the Books books to read and he has already read 15 of them!
We found out that the vice principal at Mountain Trials last year is their principal at Saratoga Shores this year, so they already know one person at least!
All summer I keep telling Kasen to put on shorts and a T-shirt so when school started today he said he gets to wear pants and long sleeves again. I tried to explain that it's still August and 93 degrees today, but he did not care... I took them to get a few new outfits for school because out of the 11 pants Kasen had last year, only 2 pair don't have both knees torn out now! He is hard on pants.
This year Kasen has an alarm clock in his room, so they are in charge of waking up and starting to get themselves ready downstairs before they come up for breakfast. I love it already.
Luckily drop off wasn't as crowded and didn't take as long as I was mentally preparing for. It took us about 25 minutes to drive there and get them dropped off. There wasn't a parent party in the back of the school like we've done at Mountain Trails before so it was just a wave at the curb.
I am so glad that they have each other and that Tai was willing to go to a new school with Kasen. They hopped right out and Tai blew me a kiss as I drove away.
And after school she told me that first grade didn't even seem longer than Kindergarten!
This morning after drop off we went on a walk with all of our preschool age friends and played at the park for a little while together.
It's going to be a great year.
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