Today on the way to school Brandt told me it was Wordless Wednesday at school. This is TAKS week for the upper grades and they try to keep things quiet during testing. He wasn't too upset because Mrs. Liesveld still lets them talk by writing, he explained. So I assumed they would write notes and pass them back and forth. When I asked him about passing notes, he looked at me a little funny and said, "No Mom, on our whiteboards". They all have small, personal whiteboards to write on and erase.
Then he asked me what passing notes meant. Once again, Mom is too old for school today. No, they don't have real blackboards either. Those are dry erase whiteboards too.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
But Are They Ready For Her??
Last Thursday I registered Campbell for Kindergarten. Round Up was all last week and I realized on Wednesday that I was subconsciously putting it off. There were three forms that I needed to fill out at home and then dig out her immunization records, birth certificate and social security card. I know where all of these things are, I know the school registrar, I was just putting it off. Something about registering her was a big step for me. She is the one I have always been home with. She was three and half before she went to preschool. I know she is ready, but am I ready to send her?
Registering Brandt was different. We had just moved to Frisco and I was scrambling to get the house unpacked, everyone settled and oh yeah, I had a five year old I had to send to school. The decision to send him had been a long and difficult one. We were still in Dallas and not yet planning to move. He is a May birthday and I wasn't sure he was ready to go. I consulted my friends who are teachers, his preschool teachers, my sister-in-laws, most of my friends. I looked at our elementary school and private school options. We eventually decided that even though our elementary was a great school, it was still in a large urban district, was largely minority and was probably not our best choice. We enrolled him in a private kindergarten with the plan to reevaluate at the end of the year and decide if he needed to repeat public kindergarten the next year or go on to first grade. Then we moved to Frisco with its great schools and off to school he went without a second thought.
I didn't have these thoughts with Campbell. I know she is ready.
Last Wednesday night she offered to set the table while I quickly loaded the dishwasher. Dinner had about ten more minutes in the oven and Blake was just starting to wake up, so I really wanted to hurry. She started to set the table and decided it was dirty so she proceeded to grab the cleaner and paper towels and start to clean it. She has seen me do this a thousand times, so I let her go. There is no changing her mind once it is set anyway, so why waste my time? In a minute she turned around and said "Mom, you could really be a bigger help here. I need more paper towels." (Remember, I am loading the dishwasher.) I gave her the paper towels and she went back to work. As I as taking dinner out of the oven she says "Mom, watch this - if you would clean the table this way, it would really be better." She is halfway on the table trying to reach the other side. I had to watch her clean the rest, with instruction on the correct way to wipe it off. I'm still not sure how her method is better than mine, but I did not argue.
Oh yeah, she is ready for Kindergarten. My only concern is - is Kindergarten ready for her?
Registering Brandt was different. We had just moved to Frisco and I was scrambling to get the house unpacked, everyone settled and oh yeah, I had a five year old I had to send to school. The decision to send him had been a long and difficult one. We were still in Dallas and not yet planning to move. He is a May birthday and I wasn't sure he was ready to go. I consulted my friends who are teachers, his preschool teachers, my sister-in-laws, most of my friends. I looked at our elementary school and private school options. We eventually decided that even though our elementary was a great school, it was still in a large urban district, was largely minority and was probably not our best choice. We enrolled him in a private kindergarten with the plan to reevaluate at the end of the year and decide if he needed to repeat public kindergarten the next year or go on to first grade. Then we moved to Frisco with its great schools and off to school he went without a second thought.
I didn't have these thoughts with Campbell. I know she is ready.
Last Wednesday night she offered to set the table while I quickly loaded the dishwasher. Dinner had about ten more minutes in the oven and Blake was just starting to wake up, so I really wanted to hurry. She started to set the table and decided it was dirty so she proceeded to grab the cleaner and paper towels and start to clean it. She has seen me do this a thousand times, so I let her go. There is no changing her mind once it is set anyway, so why waste my time? In a minute she turned around and said "Mom, you could really be a bigger help here. I need more paper towels." (Remember, I am loading the dishwasher.) I gave her the paper towels and she went back to work. As I as taking dinner out of the oven she says "Mom, watch this - if you would clean the table this way, it would really be better." She is halfway on the table trying to reach the other side. I had to watch her clean the rest, with instruction on the correct way to wipe it off. I'm still not sure how her method is better than mine, but I did not argue.
Oh yeah, she is ready for Kindergarten. My only concern is - is Kindergarten ready for her?
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