I have mixed feelings about the start of the school year. Schedule and routine are good. It's good to share, for a moment, my responsibility to teach and socialize my children with other members of our community. But, everything starts all at once. It's not enough to start school, we start piano, we start meetings like open house, back to school, leadership and everything seems to begin doubling up right away.
I know it will be this way and so, even on the first day of school, I hesitate just a bit. But, my kids are such geeks; they love school. They love learning new things, seeing their friends, testing out increased independence and I can't put the brakes on that.
This year, Z moves to the middle school with CE. He has a great schedule of teachers and classes, including his former first grade teacher who now teaches math. I love this woman! She is a wonderful teacher, a wonderful human being with such light emanating from her and she teaches that light in everything she does. She especially loves math and wants her students to love it just as much. CE is in her last year of middle school and realizes how much work is ahead of her and isn't in love with any of her teachers, so the idea of school has lost the bloom off the rose a bit. CW has the same teacher Z had for 4th grade and his teaching style seems uniquely tuned to how CW approaches the world. Bam's teacher is this lovely sarcastic spitfire of a woman who has been teaching for 20+ years and loves first grade. I love anyone who loves where my children are!
Miss M will begin preschool with Miss Jeannette after Labor Day and is dying to start. She struggles with why some of her friends went to kindergarten today but she can't go till next year (pesky late birthdays and all).
I feel we are amazingly blessed to have dedicated teachers and excellent schools and safe neighborhoods for our family to grow. The new year will bring what it brings. We will grow and schedule and routine are good for us, right?
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