Lauren really is enjoying kindergarten as long as you don't ask her about it right when she gets out at 11:35 or when she is tired. She's usually pretty hungry for lunch right when she gets out so is sometimes a bit grumpy. I send her with big snacks, but something happens to them, more on that later.
I dread the day she tells me school is boring and she doesn't want to go anymore or the day something bad happens and she stops liking it so much. The main key in my mind is to make sure she gets plenty of sleep. If she is well rested, then if things happen, they aren't nearly so dramatic and terrible. She did tell me last week that she didn't like having to do everything her teacher told her to do. She would much rather stay home with me and do whatever she wanted to do. That right there is why homeschooling wouldn't work so well for her.
I worried about Lauren making friends at school since she doesn't live in the school boundaries and didn't have the experience of going to preschool before kindergarten. Sometimes after a hard day she'll tell me that she doesn't have any friends at school. It makes me sad, but then she tells me about the times that some of the girls in her class have forgotten their snacks and how she has shared her snacks with them. That warms my heart. I know Lauren is a kind, sweet, thoughtful little girl and she is making friends. The days she says she doesn't have friends are probably days when she is a bit hungry and tired.
The school has this great program where the kindergartners are assigned a reading buddy in the fourth grade. Every Friday they have some time with their reading buddy to read stories. At the beginning of the year the fourth graders read to the little kindergartners, but the goal is to have the kindergartners reading to their buddies by the end. Lauren loves the reading buddy program. I asked her about her buddy last Friday. Lauren said she was a girl but could not remember her name. I asked if she was in fourth or fifth grade. Lauren thought for a minute and said, "I think she is a teenager and in first grade." All in all she is having a great time and I am very happy for her and pleased with the way she is growing and learning about the world around her and demonstrating who she is even when I'm not there.
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She is so sweet. I can't believe she is in Kindergarten. It will be strange when Ben Benn starts, even though it's a long ways away. I hope she continues to enjoy it.
What a sweetheart, sharing her snacks.
Just an idea: We had a hard timme with Emma's day's being worse when she was tired, also. Eventually we just moved her to a 7pm bedtime and that worked wonders. And on the hard days, it's 6:30 or sometimes even 6. Her days were so much happier...and mom was so much happier! :)
I'm kind of surprised about your needing to provide Lauren with a snack each day. When you all were in kindergarten I had to pay a milk fee for the year. They also made assignments to the parents to bring health snacks to school each day. You signed up for what day you wanted and then you provided a snack for the whole class.
There are some children with severe nut allergies in the class so I think they just decided it was best to let the parents prepare snacks for their own children. We have been asked not to bring anything with nuts in it for a snack though.
The bedtime advice sounds really good and I think Lauren is a lot like Emma in that respect. I wish I could move her bedtime up more but she shares a room with Spencer and that makes it a bit tricky to have different bedtimes. One day they'll have their own rooms.
Lexi wishes she could be there. She tells me almost every day that Lauren is her very best friend and, though she likes her new friend Brooke, she isn't as great as Lauren and Lauren did everything fun and is funny and nice and just the very best friend. Today, we even had a crying fit over how much she misses Lauren and she listed every fun thing they had ever done together (LegoLand, Toddler Time, Joy School, play dates, Primary, FHE, New Year's Eve with party poppers, walking to the library, soccer... the list seemed as endless as the tears. We really REALLY miss you!
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