Here’s to a lovely first day of second grade, Kathryn Lilia. May your new class bring you sweet friends and may you grow in wisdom and knowledge just as fast as you outgrow your jumpers.
I hope you always love to learn, even if you don’t always count down to the first day with so much glee and anticipation. I hope you continue to love well and encourage others, even when it doesn’t feel very cool to do so. Remember who you are and where you’ve been. I am so proud to be your mom and I can’t wait to see your story unfold.
Sweet! My girl started 3rd grade yesterday.
Have an exciting year Kate. You will make so many friends and learn so much <3 Grandma loves you Sweetheart
What a sweet little girl you have Kristen. :) May this year bring lots of joy and wonderful memories for her and your entire family.
She looks awesome and I love the jumper! Hope it’s a sweet year for her!
What a sweetie! Hope Kate has a great year!
It amazes me the difference a few months in age makes … M-girl would only be allowed to go into 1st this year if we were doing local school.
Thanks all! She had a great first day.
Dawn, here most private schools have a Jr. Kindergarten and you have to have been born before June 1st to go to Sr. Kindergarten (which is required for 1st grade.) Even the schools without JK follow that practice. So, if we had been living here, Kate would be in 1st or we would have had to petition the (private) school board for a special exception.
I see it both ways, as a fall birthday who went to college when I was 17, I was ready for K when I went and did well in elementary school (and high school for that matter.) But I would have also benefitted from being a year older when I went to college. Maybe a gap year or two would be a good solution.
That’s interesting, I’ve never heard of Jr. K or Sr. K, that isn’t done here. Our district’s cutoff date is Aug 1, which is early for our area. It doesn’t really matter to us as we use a different academic year and just keep going without stopping.
Jason turned 18 right at the beginning of college, too. There are things about the “gap year” concept I find wise and appealing, but I do have concerns about pushing off adulthood even longer … I haven’t thought about it much, though.
I think that a gap year spent serving or working in a capacity similar to what you are considering for a vocation would probably help to make the college years more focused and thus help to prevent pushing off adulthood. My goal would be for my kids to be ready to take college very seriously, graduate in four years and have a plan (at the end.) Unfortunately that is getting less common these days.