This week was Maggie's first full week of kindergarten! Here in Raleigh, public schools do something called staggered entry...kindergarteners only go 1 day the first week of school (which was last week) so that the teachers can assess them / their skill levels and assign a diverse mix of kids to each class. So Maggie went last Tuesday, and then Thursday night we found out who her teachers would be (Ms. Smith and Mrs. Proctor), and Friday we went to a "meet the teacher" at the school. There are 6 kindergarten classes at her school, and she has 23 other kids in her class (I think there are ~ 140 kindergarteners total). There is only 1 former classmate from her preschool in her class, but her 2 best friends, Eli and Emerson, are in neighboring classrooms so she gets to see them at recess time. So far, she is really loving kindergarten! She is so excited to tell me about all her new friends, and every day she exclaims "I can't believe I'm in kindergarten!!".
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| staggered entry day last week |
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| first day of school this week |
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| Lilly started back in preschool this week |
We will have pretty much the same schedule that we had last year. I go to work at the Botanical Gardens early in the mornings, so Will gets the girls up and walks them to school. Maggie's elementary school is right behind our house, and the preschool is at a church just across the street. Since Maggie has to be at school b/w 8:00-8:15, and preschool doesn't start until 9:00, Will gets some quality time with Lilly after taking Maggie to school. And since I come home from work to pick Lilly up from preschool at 12:30, but Maggie doesn't get out of school until 3:00, I also get some quality time with just Lilly.
So, pretty much all of my quality time with Lilly this week has been spent playing with Legos. I recently brought home all of my old childhood Legos that my parents had been storing, which actually happened (unintentionally) right after we saw the Lego movie with the girls. The girls (especially Lilly) LOVE these and play with them every day.
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| just a few Legos... |
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| really old-school Legos from the 1970's (these Lego people pre-date the mini-figures)...anyone else remember these?? |
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| awesome classic spacemen |
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| Lilly playing with my old police station...she put the bad guys in jail! | | | |
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Something else that we've been doing a lot of in the past 2 weeks is hunting for cicada shells. The girls are slightly obsessed and it is hard for them to walk past one without collecting it. There are so many in our neighborhood...on tree trunks, on fence posts, on the ground, even on bricks! And last week we even saw 3 coming out of their shells! So cool!
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| emerging cicada at a friend's house |
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| recently emerged cicada near the preschool playground |
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| only 2 days worth of cicada collecting! |
