Kindergarten

Phew, we survived the first 2 weeks of kindergarten... Glad that's over!

Annabelle was so excited about going to kindergarten at her new "big kid" school, she had been counting down the days since the beginning of August! Because of the Labor Day holiday, first day of school was not until Tuesday the 7th and by then, she was VERY ready.

But because Annabelle's new school does this thing called, "exploratory", where, for the first 3 days, they shuffle the kids around to try and find the best class mix, she ended up having one teacher on the first day and a different teacher the next. It was all a bit disjointed and nerve wracking, I must say. I just wanted her settled with a class already!

The whole process seemed to take forever but soon enough she was settled and loving school. She was very pleased with her teacher and was even in the same class as her little buddy from preschool, Tore. All was going swimmingly well until...

Yesterday I received a phone call from the parent center informing me that a space had opened up at another school, one which we had requested her to attend months ago.

Faced with the dilemma of what to do, Nick and I weighed the pros & cons and, of course consulting Annabelle about it, have decided to move her over to the other school. Annabelle will be starting kindergarten AGAIN on Tuesday, at her NEW, new school!

Even though she loves the current school and is a little bit sad to be leaving all of her new friends, she is looking forward to the switch. Several of her friends that live on our street, as well as many friends from preschool, also attend this new school. Hopefully she will be as happy there as she was in her first kindergarten!!