Kindergarten Update

Hailey is enjoying all of her new Kindergarten friends and of course has a few favorite boy friends. She has also expanded her circle of girl friends too which I was happy to see this year. She is on a girls soccer team and has also joined Tom and Peyton at Indian Princess events (think Girl Scouts but with Dads) so this has helped her develop stronger bonds with some of the girls. Very important since every girl needs at least one or two good girlfriends!

Since she attends school in the afternoon now it has been a bit of an adjustment for her (and me). She has asked me, "Mom, when is Kindergarten going to get here?!" And, "Why didn't you sign me up for the morning?" (I didn't because usually the afternoons are better - smaller class sizes and the veteran teacher.)

We have swimming and gymnastics one day a week in the mornings so that helps and us moms also schedule play dates on another day of the week to make the mornings go by quicker. 

 

We do her homework in the morning and a lot of reading. She’s really a great reader and her fluency has progressed quickly from when she first started to read. She enjoys doing homework and doesn’t mind sitting down in the morning to accomplish this. It’s really the time after school that’s been a period of adjustment for her as she is tired and needs a bit of downtime to recoup. But all in all, she’s so happy to be at the same school as her big sister!