It's All About Kids!

Today was all about the boys. It was Kentucky Kids' Day at school. Rich was shocked at drop off when he saw a red carpet, paparazzi, and Academy Award statues by the doors. Talk about starting your day off right! During the day, they got to dress up and had pictures taken with their classes and brought home little key chains with the photo. The school also had the parents write you child a letter and they passed them out at school today. Trey gave me the sweetest hug when he got home and told me loved my note. Talk about melt your heart!

Tonight we attended the school Open House. The boys were so eager to get there so they could show us around the school, point out their work displayed on the wall and get to visit with their teachers. The boys have wonderful teachers that are perfectly suited for their personalities. What a blessing!

The boys will have their teacher for the next two years since they do kindergarten/first grade combination classes and second/third grade classes. This arrangement allows the teachers to do very specific ability groupings. In the lower primary grades(Josh and Matt) they have clusters of three teachers that rotate students at different times. Josh and Matt are in the same cluster so they spend recess with each other, go on field trips together and do the same homework and projects. The school runs on a 6 day rotation and the students go to specific centers on set days. They all have different teachers for math, art, science, P.E., music and go to the library as well. We could not found a better school than Veterans Park Elementary.
Trey and Mrs. Newton. Trey stands by his All About Me poster that was displayed in the hallway.
Josh and Mrs. Corales. She was Trey's teacher last year.
Josh showed us a journal entry he wrote about a frog and illustrated.
Matt and Mrs. Belcher.
Matt at his desk. He loved showing us his journal and the cool green mask you can see in the picture.

We rushed over to Josh and Matt's baseball game after which is always fun and they did a great job. I was grateful we had our first no homework night of the year since it was non-stop 'GO" all day long. But the highlight of the day was seeing the gleam in their eye, the smile on their lips and the excitement in their voices as they showed us their special projects they worked so hard on and were on display just for us.