Usually on Friday I share my 5 favorites of the week with you. Well, today I'm rolling just a little different. I'm sharing 5 things...5 things that I just want you to know about my life lately!
#1 My oldest son started kindergarten
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| First day! |
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| Homework :( |
Let me tell you, this is not the kindergarten I remember. Kindergarten for me was a half day. I remember we had snack, we played, and I think we might have taken a nap. For Nick, kindergarten is a full day. Snack...yes. Play time...20 minutes of recess. That's it. 20 minutes. He has a computer class once a week. He has homework every night (granted it takes only about 10 minutes to complete but still). He comes home with anywhere from 1-5 papers a day of stuff I need to do or remember! I'm feeling very stressed and I'm not even the one in school! I will say though, so far things are going well! Nick likes his teacher and likes school. What a relief!
#2 Soccer
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| The best part about soccer is the post game Target trip! |
The weekends have been all about soccer. Is it bad that I pray for rain every weekend in the hopes the games will be cancelled? Honestly though, it has been a fun experience coaching and our team has some serious soccer talent!
#3 Field trip time
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| Nick's first visit to the apple orchard |
Tuesday is Nick's first field trip as a kindergartner and my first time being a parent chaperone!! All the kindergartens will be visiting a local apple orchard. It seems like the apple orchard is the go-to kindergarten field trip for pretty much every school in the Northeast! I wonder what the go-to field trip is for southerners?? Tell me if you know!
#4 Work and more work
#5 A partridge in a pear tree
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| My tree is like 4x the size of this one! |
OK, there isn't a partridge in it but I do have a pear tree! There is this random tree at the back of our property that I originally thought was just a plain old regular tree. But then I thought I saw apples growing on it so figured it was a crab apple. Well, the hubby went and looked at it the other day and said it is loaded with pears! Like hundreds of them! This tree is big... it has been there a while...a long while. It's not in a place where someone would have deliberately planted a tree (our backyard was undeveloped land before our house was built 3 years ago...completely overgrown with bushes, weeds and small maple trees. You ocassionally see a small pear tree in NY, but it's not something that's super common. I have NEVER seen a pear tree this big before in my life! I wonder how it got there?? It's such a random tree in such a random place. And yes, I am probably wayyyy too excited over a tree. But I just think it's so cool!
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Yes, Kindergarten has changed! It isn't the preschool feel anymore that is for sure! Plus, every state is different with Kindergarten. I have some friends in the midwest where it is still optional and they have to pay for it in "public" school. I'm so glad you are doing well. Get some rest....and its raining all weekend here maybe you'll get some in time for the game hahahaha. xo Amanda
ReplyDeleteOptional kindergarten? Wow! I didn't know there was such a thing. Unfortunately (am I really saying that??) it's not supposed to rain this weekend so it appears I won't be getting out of soccer!
DeleteMy son is in second grade and his field trip is going apple picking! Yes Kindergarten has changed a lot. Common Core has made it very academic. My son does soccer too on the weekends. Congrats to you for coaching! Have a great weekend! Stopping by from H54F!
ReplyDeleteLOL!! Maybe there is a secret requirement in NY that all school-aged children must go on a field trip to the apple orchard! Have a great weekend!
DeleteI can't believe how much kindergarten has changed! I'm not looking forward to that next year when my daughter starts. I think it's really cool you have such a random tree! I'd be super excited too!!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I'm not the only one that gets excited about trees! :)
DeleteI feel the same about kindergarten as you...it was only half a day when I went too, and mostly play time from what I remember. So much more expected from our little ones now. And in our state, we have the common core- of I could go on forever about that crap lol.
ReplyDeleteWe used to have a couple of pear trees in our yard too! Oh they were delicious! One got struck by lightening and the other, I believe got a disease or something and had to be chopped down. Enjoy it! I miss ours!
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We have common core here too... I don't know much about it yet, other than almost everyone I know HATES it!! Not looking forward to dealing with it, especially as my boys get older!
DeleteAww, that's too bad about your pear trees! Plant some new ones!
I would love to find a half day kindergarten for my son! But they just don't exist much anymore!
ReplyDeleteIt just seems like such a long day for a 5 year old! There is only 1 school in our area that does half day kindergarten. It's definitely rare to find a half day program these days!
DeleteAw, that's exciting about your son starting Kindergarten! I used to teach Kindergarten. It's such a great age! I agree with you that it is SO much different from when we were in school. I only went half day too.
ReplyDeleteI just feel bad that he gets so little time to play and be a kid! Let them be little I say! :)
DeleteI missed you mama!! You sound SO busy!! I hope you're getting plenty of Starbuck's, lol ;)
ReplyDeleteApple Orchards sound so nice. Are you going to make applesauce? Yum!!
Your little man looks so cute for school.
And that pear tree sounds crazy amazing. You will need to post pics of it. Did you try the pears yet? Have a great weekend. xoxo
My oldest started Kindergarten and had his first field trip too....which I also chaperoned. We went to our safety building and saw the police and fire stations. Wish we went to an orchard .
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