My Kinder Team

It seems like every year my Kindergarten team changes. This year besides Gloria and Norma, we have Jessica (I worked with her in kinder several years ago) and her partner Dani, who is 6 month pregnant. They share a classroom, Jessica works in the morning and Dani in the afternoon.

We had a fun Back to School night. All the parents (but one) of the kids in my class were in attendance. Today the super intendent came to visit our school, he visited every room and he was very complimentary about the way my class looked. Wish I could say the same about my 15 kiddies's behavior lol.

Such a small class and such a great difference in skills. One boy can read fluently at level 6 and he already can read 72 of the 100 high frequency words they need to know by the end of kinder. The other extreme, is a boy that cannot write or recognize his name, and can't tell the difference between letters and numbers.

I was thinking the other day, that since I became a kindergarten teacher at Jersey School, I have taught about 700 children. And I am not counting Idaho...

I am now teaching the children of some of my students. Fun!

Hello Autumn!

Summer is over and is back to the work routine. We had Back to School day on Wednesday and it went very well, I put some pictures of my class in Facebook, as you can see, I changed things around a little, I get bored with the same thing all the time. My friend Jennifer came to spend the night Wednesday and Thursday, it was fun to chat with her and catch up.
Marvin went to San Diego last Sunday to help Lizzie with her truck and spent the night there. On Friday I went with Marvin to Kaiser where we had some more surgery done, it went well but he has a black eye now, and his lip is puffy. Saturday I went to Huntington Beach to water Norbert's lawn and pay some of his bills. Then I went shopping, yes shopping, fun! not.
We are still working on putting things back in the kitchen, it takes a while to have everything exactly as we ant it. But we are really liking it, is nice to have the extra space too.
Tonight we talked to Tristan for a long time while Sandy and Marty went to The Killers concert, he was bored he said. He's such a great kid!
Well this has been a little random but I felt like writing before the month was over :) Have a great week everybody!

It's finished!!!

Finally the kitchen is all done, all is left are just a few tweaks here and there, some curtains and accessories, but the main thing is finished. Now comes the putting things back in the cabinets, drawers etc. , this will take some time. I really think it looks good :)

We've been having a lot of eating out and take out, so now we can go back to our regular routine. Today Marvin is grilling pork ribs, to go with gratin potatoes and southwest salad.

School is going well, still 15 kids, not too bad lol. Next week is our Back to School meeting with parents, our new K team is working out OK, although I would much rather have Jennifer back.

Summer is almost gone, the Autumnal equinox is just around the corner, I hope that means cooler days, we had a very hot August and September, but it seems to start cooling down a little bit.

I will post some more kitchen pictures in Facebook.

Have a great week!!!

Back to work

School started early this year, September 2. I only have 15 children in my class, so far. That's the smallest class ever for me, and I like it! We only had 3 days of school, and then the long Labor Day weekend. Back to the grind tomorrow.

On other news, our neighbors Patty and Leon moved out also on September 2, and the same day, the new neighbors moved in. They are a young couple with no children. I already met the husband but not the wife.

The kitchen is not yet finished. Hopefully they can finish it tomorrow. They need to finish painting, I'd like the gray to be a little darker, maybe it will be with the next coat of paint. They need to hook up the stove top, change the hinges in the cabinets and put the knobs on. So far it looks very nice. I will certainly take pictures when is all finished :)

Marvin is planning on going to Utah on Thursday for a couple of weeks, if the kitchen is all finished.

The fires around Los Angeles seem to be under control, and today was a most wonderful bright sunny day!

And I agree with Sandy, every week should be a 4 day work week :)