I love kindergarten!

So Crash is going to a little private Christian school that is literally 1 min and 45 sec drive from my house.  We had heard rave reviews about this teacher and it sounded like the perfect place for our Crash.  It's even better because we knew about 1/2 the children and families already on the first day of school.

Things seem to be going well for him.  He is excited to go each day and I have had no complaints.

Since the school is held at a church they do not have a cafeteria.  So on Wednesdays the moms take turns providing "hot lunch" for all the children and their families.  We signed up for the first week.

I let Crash help pick the menu of all his kid-friendly favorites.  We had corn dogs, fries, and carrots, with a side of chocolate cake.

Wingman and the Test Pilot were so excited to go to his school and help cook and serve lunch.  They were very helpful.

At the end, I walked around passing out the chocolate cake.  I hand Crash his plate and he says with the biggest grin on his face, "I LOVE KINDERGARTEN!"

Apparently, having corn dogs with chocolate cake with your family is the best day ever at Kindergarten.

Bad drought

We are studying Apologia's Zoology focusing on creatures created on Day 5 of creation.  Specifically looking at birds, insects, bats, and butterflies.  We have enjoyed it so far.

The authors recommended regardless of the order of the book, to cover the insect section when it is warm.  So we have begun the insect section because it has been plenty warm.  There are many activities that include observations and experiments with live insects.

So we need to temporarily capture an insect to perform our activities.

I live in a buggy place.  Most years I could sadly admit that if I needed to find an insect, just look somewhere in the bathroom or right out the front door.  Fire ants are everywhere much to my chagrin.

However, this year we can hardly find any bugs.  I am not exaggerating.  There are no fire ant mounds in the backyard.  Very few mosquitoes.  No sugar ants in my kitchen.  We could only find a few bees in the flowers but I am not attempting to catch them.

I guess the drought has affected them too.  So we had a good lesson about the affects of drought on insects as well.

We really need some rain.

First Day of Kindergarten

Our sweet boy, Crash, finally started Kindergarten.  I say finally, because he is been excited since last spring.

Here's a shot in his uniform.  He looks so grown up.  

Here's the new school backpack.

This is him sitting at his new desk.  He was sitting with one of his good buds for pre-K and church.  In fact, he knows about half the class from pre-K and church, which made the first day even better.

Since alphabetically, our family almost always comes first, he was up to present his "All About Me" poster soon.  We went ahead and turned it today.  He was so funny working on that thing.

Mom asks, "What's your favorite food?"
Crash responds, "Lettuce."
Mom responds, "Really? Lettuce?"
Crash states, "Why yes!"

I knew he liked lettuce and salad but who knew it was his favorite.

We are looking forward to a good year!