8-6-3

Today was the first day of school. It has been a long time since Maysen and Stockton have been in a formal school setting. I was quite a bit nervous about this. Maysen started 8th grade, Stockton 6th and Jorja 3rd. When I asked the kids to show their grade number with their fingers, Maysen put up 7 fingers. Haha!

Maysen-8, Stockton-6, Jorja-3

Stockton

Maysen

Jorja

Jorja's new backpack

Maysen, Stockton & Jorja

Stockton is taking 7th grade math at the middle school, so he went on Maysen's bus in the morning. I picked him up after class. They are on a trimester schedule and only have five periods a day. Their classes are 72 minutes long. Stockton was SO bored. Oh boy, we are in for a long year. He said the teacher just rambled forever. Hopefully only because it is the first day of school. It didn't help that their bus takes an hour to get to school. I was really worried that Stockton would throw up on the bus. He didn't, but he said he was really sick. That doesn't surprise me. The starting, the stopping, and the turning spell disaster for him. Add to that the fact that he was reading because it was such a long ride. I think I will drive them to school. Hopefully I can get back home in time to get Jorja on the bus.

Come on Stockton!

Maysen!

Finally! Stockton & Maysen

Stockton & Jorja

Jorja took the wrong bus to school. I didn't know if she would have a new bus number or not. I asked the school, they said to check the district web site. I did that, but the information said it was current for the 2010-2011 school year. I walked her to the bus stop. A bus stopped and about twenty kids got on it. About one minute later, I saw Jorja's bus from last year drive by. It stopped and no one was there to get on it. Jorja said it took her over an hour to get to school and they were late. She said the bus driver was new and was stopping for everyone. She started getting worried they would take her to the wrong school. I wasn't too worried. I figured with 20 kids on the wrong bus, they would find out where they belonged. Too bad she had to be late her first day. That's never fun.

Jorja

Maysen took the wrong bus home. She didn't know her bus number and wasn't sure which bus to get on. She asked one of the drivers and he said he drove past her stop, but this wasn't her bus. He took her home anyway - thank goodness!

I think Maysen had a pretty good day, except for lunch. She didn't like the chaos in the lunchroom. They only have 30 minutes for lunch. No backpacks are allowed in the lunchroom. The seventh graders get out five minutes early, so she has no chance to not wait in a long line. Hopefully it won't be so bad.

Jorja seemed to have a good day. She loved her English class. Chinese is hard.

Stockton did not have a good day at all. He was quite miserable when he came home. It will be nice when he becomes more familiar with the schools routines . . . and when he gets to know more people. Hopefully it will help if I drive him in the morning. It will shave off about 45 minutes of his day.

After school we picked up the Color Me Mine projects the kids did. They were so happy with the results. Everyone loved theirs. The look on Stockton's face was so cute when he saw his outlet cover. He loved it! We now have it over an outlet in his room.

Stephanie, Preston, Stockton, Jorja, Maysen

Stephanie's

Preston's

Maysen's

Jorja's

Stockton's

We also had Little Caesar's and played Dominion. We had a three way tie. Maysen, Stockton and I. Now our trophy hails all of our names.