First Day of School 2009

Well, it's that time of year again-the first day of school. Karsen and Austin's first day was today, Tuesday August 18. Austin wished he could have more time off, but by the time he got there and saw Drew and Andrew, who are both in his class, he was ready to begin. His 2nd grade teacher will be Mrs Amman when she comes back from maternity leave after Christmas, but for now he has a great teacher to fill in, Mrs Underwood.

Karsen goes 1/2 day to Miss Beth's kindergarten class at Westwood. She was very excited. Josh and I dropped her off, and she was already into her coloring without a thought of saying goodbye to us! She had gym class with Miss Bowman today, in which they learned a new game called Crows and Cranes. It sounds like a version of tag, and her friend Sam was super fast and kept tagging her. She had recess as well, and played with Ellen on the slides. Apparently they are not allowed to go down the big gray slide, so Karsen and Ellen stuck with the green one.
The class also got to play a colors game and a train game. She also had fun with her friend Graham looking through microscopes. Karsen also learned an important lesson today: when you interrupt, you must say, "I'm sorry for interrupting." So now she knows not to interrupt Miss Beth with questions about the playground equipment during lesson time. She saw Austin on the playground, but as predicted, Austin played kickball and Karsen said "hi" but played with her own friends. I'm sure this was appreciated by Austin.