First Day of School

How can it possibly be true that Addison is now big enough to start kindergarten!  This year, all Z kids were enrolled at FLEC after much prayer and consideration.  We decided it was time for Kaleb to be in a bigger school where he could form friendships with other boys that would have similar interests, and true to form Addison informed US that she would be going to FLEC ..... because why?  Because it had a playground.....Important things in life!

Love how Zachary and Addison are holding hands -- and unprompted!

Kaleb - grade 4, Zachary grade 6, and Addison 0 for Kindergarten

Zachary is officially a middle-schooler - pray for us. :). He will have a home room class room teacher but he rotates through different teachers throughout the day.  He seems to really like this, and has a school iPad that has all of his school curriculum and homework that he has as well as a locker!  He is doing voice lessons again this year, and his electives are Spanish and peer mediation.  Peer mediation is a course that will teach them how to resolve conflict - what great life skill to have, so we have high hopes for this!

Zachary and one of his close friends Cristian - in Mrs. Panda's class

Jennifer texted me this picture on the first day of school - this was Zachary and Blake in Pre-K

Kaleb is in Ms Archer's 4th grade class, although he was first assigned to Mrs. O'Reilly.  It was a last minute (literally the afternoon before) switch in which they took him out of her class and called Amy.  She did a little negotiating with them as he really wanted Ms. Archer so they were kind to allow him to go into her class seeing as he had to switch teachers anyway.  She texted Amy the first evening to say how awesome Kaleb was, so that was a measure of peace that this would be a good fit.  Kaleb was a little nervous about switching schools but after the first week he informed us that he was really happy that he switched, so we hope that this continues!  He has our close friend Kieran there, so they have had a good time connecting during recess.  He has since told us that he is really happy that he switched, he likes the bigger classrooms, more kids to play with and likes the classes.  Thank you for answered prayers!

Addison is in Mrs. Gomberg's class - which we were hoping that she'd have some kids in there that she knew but most of her closer friends are in other classes - but she has some nice kids in her class that she is getting to know.   After about 2 days, she has started to inform us that we don't need to walk her into the classroom!  What is up with that - she can't grow up that fast on her own!!

We also have a fun birthday outing for Kaleb to celebrate Kieran's birthday at Main Event - that will have to be on our future list of places, that was a lot of fun and it was indoors which is critical in August!

Jonny, Evan, Kaleb and Kohlden

Happy birthday Kieran!