Busy School Days

Ashley is only in KINDERGARTEN and she’s so busy! Everyday she brings home a word bag, with words we go over every night – sight words that she should learn to recognize by sight, instead of by phonetically sounding them out. She also brings home a reader, a short book that she should read to us (or us first to her if she has trouble with words). These are very short books, that she easily memorizes after reading one or two times. She is also taking a Chinese class everyday and seems to be doing well. She brought home a Chinese book and read it to me this evening (again, repetitive words on each page, but still, it’s in CHINESE!). She is doing well in school, has lots of new friends and really seems to be thriving in the classroom. I’ve talked with her teacher, Miss Elizabeth, and have been told that Ashley is VERY social and loves helping out in the classroom. On Mondays, she’ll be starting choir next week with her classmates, Wednesday is gymnastics and Friday is ballet. She had her first gymnastics class today and had so much fun running around exercising and jumping. She’s been doing ballet now for a few weeks and enjoys that also. She’s just getting so big and growing up so fast! I can’t imagine how busy my life will be when I have 3 kids in school and am shuttling them all around! I see moms do it here, with 2 or 3 kids in different schools and different activities, they are running around ragged – guess that’s part of being a mom is all about