Jocelyn's now a BIG GIRL in Kindergarten!!! :)
(and she LOVES it!)
Last year, when she wasn't able to go to school yet like we had hoped, we did many great things at home: she learned to read by using the Dick and Jane book series, she knows how to say, recognize and trace her numbers and letters and she knows how to cut paper with scissors - just to name a few!
So here are a few pictures from her orientation day...
And now for the day we've all been waiting for...Jocelyn starts Kindergarten!!
She will be normally taking the bus to and from school each day. But because today was her first day, I decided to drive her in. After getting up and ready and eating breakfast and brushing teeth and making lunch and snack and filling her water bottle and doing her hair and making sure she had her bus pass and name tag...WHEW!...it was time to get on the road! First of course, we had to have a little photo op of the BIG day! :)
I sneaked a little note into her lunch bag ;)
Andrew wanted to get in the picture. He was really going to miss his buddy that he's been used to sharing the day with all these years!
Picture with Dad + Mom
Waiting at school for the doors to open up.
She was the first one into her classroom and she quickly found her seat!
Mommy + Kindergartener
She has such a sweet teacher and teacher's assistant. I'm very happy where she'll be spending her days learning and growing. I look forward to the occasional opportunity to go up to the school and volunteer as much as possible. Oh, and having lunch with her once a month at the very least. Her request. Hey! I'll take it as long as she'll let me! :)
This picture is of her right after she got home from the first day of school. She was so happy and excited to tell me all about her first day! I love how much she loves school already. It's so cute! To touch a little on her first bus ride home experience...well, it was a bit nerve racking! First, her teacher called to say she had missed her bus. That the driver had already left by the time they got her to where she needed to be to get on. They were wandering around the school yard when Aubrey saw Jocelyn with her teacher and said hello to her. The teacher said, "do you know Jocelyn?" And she said, "well, yeah, she's my sister!!" The teacher was apparently thrilled to have run into big sis! She helped make arrangements for Jocelyn to ride home on the bus with Aubrey and all the middle/high school students that lived in our area. However, Aubrey's (German) bus driver was NOT in favor at all of this idea! I can understand they want their rules to be their rules and to follow them to a "T" but come on! They don't live close to the school nor was this (hopefully) going to happen again. With a grudging attitude, he let her on. But scolded Aubrey for the issue. Ugh! On a good note, everyone on the bus loved having Jocelyn ride home with them. They fought over who got to sit next to her and who was her friend! :)
Such a sweet gift for us parents - her hand print and a poem from the book "The Kissing Hand."
Here she is with her Daddy during the first week of school on a bright and early morning to the bus.
And walking home with friends after school after getting off the bus.
So far, she's loving homework! And I will not discourage this moment whatsoever! ;)
Here's to a great year...her first year in elementary school!
