school news!

We got the classroom supply lists in the mail today, along with the schedule for meet-the-teacher nights, etc.

The list for ds2 had a letter from his teacher on the back - his main teacher will be the woman who was his secondary teacher last year (it was a large class of all Kindergartners with 2 fully certified teachers. This year, he'll be in a K/1 class of 20 kids with one certified teacher and one assistant), the assistant teacher is the woman who was ds1's assistant teacher last year. So we know his teachers, at least!

There was no mention in the letter of who ds1's teacher will be, but we're assuming he's got the same teacher as last year, as it's a 2/3 class and he's going to be in 3rd grade. Obviously, he'll have a different assistant teacher, since she'll be in ds2's class. I'm sort of hoping everything got shuffled over the summer and the woman who was ds1's assistant teacher in 1st grade will be his assistant now. Probably not, because as of the spring, she was assigned to someone else.


And a moment to muse on how ds1's 1st grade teacher is doing. She's got to be hugely pregnant by now, since she's due in september. DD's about to get too big for the bouncy seat, plus she has outgrown a lot more clothes since summer started.


I called the school to check and they said the teachers weren't being announced until tomorrow. So the mail was fast, I guess, or at least wasn't meant to have the teachers' names.

At least the supply lists are reasonable this year. DS2's list last year for kindergarten was enormous and vastly expensive. Like a 5 year old really NEEDS the very most expensive art markers that are almost impossible to find (which I didn't get for him anyway). But this year they suggest crayola markers. Phew!

So we will need to start looking for supplies. If I ever find the walmart gift card we got when DD was born, we'll do that much of our shopping at wally world. Otherwise, it's Target and Office Despot for us.

The boys also need new shoes and DS1 needs some more shorts. I think DS2 is set for shorts and he has a HUGE stack of school shirts, but I'll have to look through his long pants when it gets cooler. DS1 definitely will need new long school pants. His legs grew a couple of inches just over last winter and I swear they've grown a couple more over the summer. And what long pants he has mostly have big holes in the knees - the boy is hard on his clothes.

Which reminds me that I want to have the school do some testing on DS1. He might just be a bit clumsy like me, but if there's a way we can help him not fall down all the time and to help him develop his fine motor control so he doesn't hate writing and to help him not zone out in class...