Last Day of Kindergarten for Caroline
Jun. 26th, 2009 07:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
puppetmakerHard to believe that a school year has passed. It seems that just the other day I was putting her on the bus for the first time. A lot has happened in that school year.
Caroline went in knowing her ABCs and left being able to read. She went in able to count to 100 and came out doing simple addition and subtraction. She has learned about following the rules and the playground politics that are just part of school. She has learned to write down the stories she has in her head. The spelling can be hard to figure out at times, but she has the concept of story writing down.
She dealt with her teacher going out on maternity leave and embraced the substitute as her teacher now. The teaching assistant was wonderful and helped Caroline with so many thing. She would go to the librarian and give him a topic and he would point her in the right direction. By the end of the year, she was finding her own books like a champ.
I had my own journey this year from having Caroline around all the time to having her off to school for the day. I joined the PTA and became a parent volunteer in the library. I made new friends among the teachers and staff at the school. By the end of field day every teacher knew who I was along with a number of the parents.
It has been a good year for both of us.
I am so grateful to the teachers and staff at Caroline’s elementary school for all their hard work with my daughter.
Caroline went in knowing her ABCs and left being able to read. She went in able to count to 100 and came out doing simple addition and subtraction. She has learned about following the rules and the playground politics that are just part of school. She has learned to write down the stories she has in her head. The spelling can be hard to figure out at times, but she has the concept of story writing down.
She dealt with her teacher going out on maternity leave and embraced the substitute as her teacher now. The teaching assistant was wonderful and helped Caroline with so many thing. She would go to the librarian and give him a topic and he would point her in the right direction. By the end of the year, she was finding her own books like a champ.
I had my own journey this year from having Caroline around all the time to having her off to school for the day. I joined the PTA and became a parent volunteer in the library. I made new friends among the teachers and staff at the school. By the end of field day every teacher knew who I was along with a number of the parents.
It has been a good year for both of us.
I am so grateful to the teachers and staff at Caroline’s elementary school for all their hard work with my daughter.
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Date: 2009-06-26 01:57 pm (UTC)Despite being married to a teacher, I don't think I'm ever grateful enough to my children's teachers. I need to change that; thanks for the reminder.
Allie.