Last week I didn’t think I was ever going to get any details from Aubrey about 1st grade. I realized quickly that the more I asked her about school, the quieter she became, so I finally shut my trap and waited for her volunteer information. (It liked to have KILT me.)
Around bedtime she finally started blabbing and I listened intently as she told me about her new classroom and teacher. When she finally ran out of things to talk about I asked her, “So what is the biggest difference between kindergarten and 1st grade?”
She didn’t hesitate, “The chairs are attached to the desks.”
I laughed. I guess it’s pretty obvious, now instead of sitting in a chair at a table, she is in a Real Desk.
Tonight was Parent Orientation at Aubrey’s school. She came home after school and told me if I picked out her self-portait at school she would get a free night with no homework.
“MOMMA! This is really important. I have a flower in my hair, and a green shirt just like this one,” she pointed to her chest. “We HAVE to win, Momma!”
Aubrey’s self-portraits are pretty easy to spot. There was the tell-tale flower, green shirt, freckles, and my favorite touch, the combination of brown and yellow crayons to try to capture the exact shade of her strawberry blonde hair.
When I was putting Aubrey to bed I said, “I picked out your picture and I sat in your desk tonight.”
She cackled. “Did you have to suck it in to get in there?”
“NO!”
She could barely breathe. “Did you get STUCK?!”
“NO!”
She was still laughing when I turned off the light and walked out of her room.
What do your kids have to say about school?
Lololol!!!!!
True (horror) story:
I found out when I was pregnant with my first child that South Carolina required me to take a section of the PRAXIS that I did not have to take when I graduated in Alabama. When I went to take my test at 7 months pregnant, the room had those desks with the chairs welded on. Being of a fluffy frame to begin with, there was no way I was fittin’ EVEN if I “sucked it in”. The proctor had to call in a janitor, who had to go get another janitor to help him bring in a table and chair for me. I then had to take my test at the front of the room, facing the other 20 something people testing that day. It was awful!
bahhhhhaaaaahhhhaaaaa. To to funny. I just love your littel girls.
Branson’s summation of his first day of kindergarten…
“A kid that sits next to me in school acted ugly in the classroom, the lunchroom, the science lab, and on the playground and he still got a smiley face. That’s weird. Another kid crawled under the table and fell asleep. When the teacher woke him up he got mad.” I’m praying for this teacher and happy I am no longer teaching kindergarten. The 1st day of school STINKS for kindergarten teachers!
God bless that teacher…you just try so hard to let everyone go home with a smiley face for the first week!
Aubrey is so talented. Love her self portrait!
My daughter had her first day at kindergarten yesterday and I wasn’t able to get much out of her about how it went. Just about the only replies I got to my questions were “fine” and “I don’t know.” When I asked what her favorite part of the day was at school though, she told me that it was when she got to play with a little girl that she went to preschool with a little over a year ago. I’m glad that she saw a somewhat familiar face there and it seems like she had fun, even though she was a little grumpy and tired when I picked her up.
She is learning some new things though because she did tell me that if anyone in the class has gum or candy in their mouth that they have to go spit it out in the trash. Also, last night when we sat down to read some books I was still talking and she took the book that she had in her hands, closed it, held it up to her chest and then looked at me very seriously and said, “I’ll wait until you’re ready.” I am loving her teacher already! At bedtime last night, when we say our goodnights and she tells me everyone that she loves, she included her teacher’s name too. I’m so happy that she really seems to like her teacher!
LOVE IT!!
Love her picture!
That is EXACTLY what she wore to school!
So glad Aubrey and Drew are in the same class again….they are going to have a great year! And tell Aubrey that I can testify to the fact that you did NOT get stuck in the desk! Ha!!!
I’m sure I’m going to need you as back up this year!
Oh, too too funny!!