We’re at T-minus one week and counting before school begins, so this week I am gearing up for another school year. R will be going into the 2nd grade and G will be completely his last year of preschool, which leads me to write, as any parent will tell you with each year’s school milestones, “how can they possibly be this old already?”
R will have the same teacher as he had last year, as his school loops grades. He is thrilled to return to the same classroom with the same teacher and the same school friends. He’s already looking forward to school: riding the bus, recess, oh, and perhaps a little learning too.
G is in a pre-K program this year, a four-morning-a-week preschool, in the same pre-K class that R attended when he was 4 and with two of R’s former teachers. He will be in the “big kid” class of the preschool and pretty much thinks he will be hot stuff.