Wow. I think this day may have been harder on me emotionally than Kindergarten. The other years in between were ok, but this one was a little rough on me. It’s hard for me to believe Doodle is in 5th grade now. This break was unusually short for me — most of the time I can’t wait for the breaks to end, but this time I wanted her to have a little more of a break. Now, she’ll get a little over 3 weeks towards the end of September and we’ll go do something fun, but this break just seemed short.
We met her teachers on Monday. I’m excited for her Language Arts and Math teacher. I really like her and I hope that Doodle does well in there because she’s struggling with Math right now. She’s got some of her friends in that class — including her “boyfriend” JP.
I was pleasantly surprised at the small class size. I guess I had built up the horrors of 5th grade in my mind a little too much. Where I thought her class was going up to 31 kids, it’s at 22 — 2 smaller than last year — at least for now. She’s still going to tutoring and we’re getting an update today on how she’s doing with that.
I don’t even want to think about next year — middle school — yuck.
Tell Doodle Happy First Day of 5th Grade!! Jeesh! I can’t believe it. She’s our youngest grandbaby! She’s supposed to stay a baby!
They started school already? Wow…my boys don’t start until the end of August.