First Day at School

 Well, yesterday Kate was off to school - FINALLY.  She has been waiting for this moment since she was 3 and her big sister started school.  She was up, dressed and ready to go by 8am with her brand new lunchbox all packed into her brand new school bag.

We got to school bright and early and sorted out her stationary.  Big sister proudly told every teacher she saw that it was Kate's first day.  Luke went and sat down on the mat with her when the bell rang, placing one hand securely on her lap, as if to reassure her it was going to be ok.  Cute!  When I left, she waved goodbye happily.  It was as easy as that!

At the end of the day, the teacher told me that she had tested Kate and wasn't going to bother giving her flash cards to do for homework as she already can read and spell all the words on them!  So Kate came home with a spelling list - something Jaimee didn't get at all in the new entrant class.

Kate was so excited to have homework.  She read her book beautifully to me (it was a bit easy at level 6), using expression for each character.  After doing the spelling words (the only one that tripped her up was "here"....she wrote "hear") and cutting out pictures that start with "C" I told her she was done.  "No! More mummy" she replied.  So we did the rest of the weeks homework as well - counting backwards from 20 (easy), writing 1-20 (easy), and practicing the letter's "n" and "u" which the teacher had recognised as needing adjusting (got it!).  She still wanted more, but I made her stop there.

Kate, it is great that you are loving school so much and had such a wonderful first day.  We are so proud of you, you just love learning so much.  Even Mrs Ferris laughed at the end of the first day, saying that she knows you would love more work, you just tackle everything she gives you!  Keep up this great work ethic, and keep that cheeky happy grin and personality shining in the playground...you will do well.

For Sus - THIS is a pillow pet (its a pillow that does up with a bit of velcro to form a "pet"!)