Today is the last day of the summer break. Labour day Monday. Tomorrow Paige heads off to grade 1 at a new school...Pineland Public School. I decided to forgo the bus as I just couldn't do it. I was having major anxiety about bus bullies and bus craziness, and since, like Mike said, we do have the option to drive Paige (it's not walkable), we might as well just drive her. Mike can often drop her off on his way to work, or if he's home, I can take her and leave the other 2 here. So really it's not that much of an issue. Environmentally speaking I wish we weren't driving every day but the bus can wait till we are all ready. When I told her she wouldn't be taking the bus after all she wasn't at all upset. I think she thought it would be all grade 1 students originally and wasn't too happy that it was grades k-8. She didn't want to be with the bigger kids anyway apparently.
So we've purchased the required school supplies, indoor shoes, and back to school clothes. She's all set. Her teacher is Mrs. Carne for English, and Mme. Reimer for French. (She's in French immersion). Her friend Amy is also in her class. Amy's mom and I are nervous that they'll get crazy, but I'm trying to hope for the best. Paige did so well in kindergarten so I shouldn't start expecting the worst now.
I'm really excited for her as I remember loving grade 1. I'm a little nervous of the French aspect, as she'll have to fully switch schools if she needs to switch back to English, so again we'll just hope for the best.
Also tomorrow is the first day of preschool for Rose! It's actually just an open house, so it'll be nice for Mike to see the school. Rose goes alone on Thursday for the first time. She's just doing 2 mornings a week to start. We can change them to full days at some point if we'd like. Paige did preschool programs through the city of burlington, but this is a real preschool. They seem to have a curriculum, and they get a little report card, so I think this will be nice for Rose. I probably would have sent Rose to the same thing as Paige, but now that is too far from this house, and this one seems really great. A 3 minute drive from our house. Hopefully Henry will stay awake for the drop off and sleep at home? Wishful thinking. But if he does it'll be nice to get time to get some things done around here. Rose is really excited about the things she has seen at the preschool, so I hope she loves it. It'll be so nice for her to play with other 3 year olds.
I'll post first day photos....
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