First Day of 4th Grade

The first day of the new school year has officially come and gone and the verdict is that it's going to be a great year!Hannah came home with all the school supplies her teacher wanted her to have: a 3 ring binder already with dividers, an agenda book, and a pencil pouch. This teacher is going to teach organization and preparing and I already love it! Here is her teacher explaining how she runs a tight ship and she's the captain! All year long she literally runs her class like a ship using terms like "starboard" and "port" and their table groups are "crews", etc, etc. At the end of the year their big field trip is an overnight trip on a Tall Ship where they literally become the crew and work it!!! Hannah's class size jumps from having had 20 kids the last four years to 32 kids today, with the anticipation of possibly two more! We know about ten of the kids really, really well. And know of some of the other kids. But from the looks of the class, we're going to have a very good year. Hannah was excited to be back with some of her friends she's known since Kindergarten. Their third grade year was the first year they all had been separated and this year, they are back together! Not only is she happy, I'm happy to be back with some good friends!

Here's to the 2009-2010 school year!