Team Ostler: First Day of School

9.21.2010

First Day of School

The boys started school last week! Hooray!! They both love their classes. Jimmy is in 2nd grade and he loves his teacher because she gives them "easy work". I don't think that will last very long. I think that she might be the only teacher at Clover Elementary that didn't give any homework the first week of school. That's just not Clover's style. He did, however, get homework this week, and LOTS of it! Let the fun begin :)

Ben started Kindergarten and he LOVES it! His teacher has a big bucket of legos in her class room and I think that Ben might be driving her a little bit crazy asking her if he can play with them. His class started out with 27 kids and they had to make a new kindergarten class because there were so many kids. So now he has only 22 kids in his class, which is much more manageable. Don't ask me how 22 5-year olds can be manageable, but those kindergarten teachers know how to work their magic. They are amazing that way!

Luke was going through some serious separation anxiety that first week that Jimmy and Ben were gone all day. So we decided to make them special welcome home cards for their first day of school. It is so cute to see him give his brother's a hug when we pick them up from school!

2 comments:

Amber: So glad that Ben has Lego's and that Jimmy has "easy work" :) I love the notes that you wrote them with Luke. I guess that Ethan told my mom that kindergarten was hard because he didn't like "seat time" where they had to write. . . maybe he has been talking to Jimmy.; September 22, 2010 at 9:03 AM
Amber: Oh and one more thing. I don't think that any amount of 5 year olds are manageable, but at least with only 22 the teacher will have less chance of going crazy. I think that next year I want to teach kindergarten again -- I might be crazy. They are just so darn cute that it has hard not to love them. :) Wish I was Ben's teacher I think I could hear him want to play with Lego's all day long.; September 22, 2010 at 9:05 AM

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Funny Things Kids Say

We were at church and during the sacrament I was talking to Luke about Jesus. I told him that Jesus bled and died for us. Luke looked at me with a very concerned look and said, "Did Heavenly Father give Jesus a band-aid when he was bleeding?"

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After Ben finished a big meal he said, "my tummy is so big and full I look like Grandpa now!" (sorry dad).

Ben pointed to a picture of the prophet and said, "That's President Monckley!"

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Jimmy said that he is allergic to babies. I asked him how he knew and he said that he gets sick when he smells them.

Ben asked me for another piece of halloween candy and I said, "Mommy is ready for the halloween candy to be gone" and Ben said, "Yea, gone in my mouth!"

We were driving past the gas station sign and Ben said, "I see a lowercase 5 on that sign."

I was talking to Jimmy about election day and asking him if his teacher voted and he said that she was "absent" that day. (I finally realized what he meant. She had just mailed in an absentee ballot.)

Ben put a whole bunch of toilet paper in the garbage and I told him that is a no, no. He said, "no it's a yes, yes!"

I tell Jimmy on a regular basis that needs to talk nicely. He yelled something across the room to me and I gave him the look that said I didn't like the tone of his voice and he said, "I was yelling nicely!"

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9.21.2010

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