First Day Report

Ben reported that his first day of school went very well. He was very enthusiastic about how much he likes his teacher, Mrs. Hsu. He said she's really nice and when she says it's "relax time" the kids are allowed to put their feet up on their desks or stretch out or get comfortable however they'd like. This went over big with Ben, who used to get into trouble last year for not sitting properly in his seat ;) Ben's best friend Jared is in his class this year and so is our neighbor's son, so he is very happy that he knows some of his classmates from outside of school.

He reported that his first day activities included getting to go to the principal's office as a class to meet her (she is new this year) and review the school code of conduct, free pudding at lunch in honor of the first day, and a free icee (also in honor of the first day) in the afternoon. We also got back into our nightly reading and homework routine last night, and I was happy to listen to Ben read a chapter on hurricanes in his weather book and breeze right through words like "atmosphere" without missing a beat. Hopefully the summer brain-drain hasn't been too bad. We did read a couple of books over the summer, but we weren't reading as consistently as I'm sure we should have been ;)