First Day of School

After our adventure filled school holidays, it was back to reality! School started back up on Tuesday. Ethan started Year 8 (7th Grade), Gavin started Year 6 (5th Grade), Trevor started Year 3 (2nd Grade), and Reese started Year 1 (kindergarten!!). Nobody was thrilled to be back, but they all had good teachers and friends to see. They looked sharp on their first day! While they were at school, I made donuts…because it is sure hard to come by a good donut here. And these tasted just like home! It was a fun treat for them to come home to as they talked all about their first day.

Reese has a nice teacher with 15 kids in her class. Trevor and Gavin also have great teachers and each have friends in their classes. Ethan has a different year with 5 different teachers: Maths (yes, they refer to it as maths…not math), English & Social Studies, Science & ACG (counseling), Music, and Health & PE. It's a great transition for next year when he'll be in high school….! They all get to do really cool things this year. The primary school (elementary school) kids all get to go swimming at least twice a week. Gavin has started swimming lessons at school every day for the next few weeks. Gavin will also get to learn how to surf in a few weeks! They will all have fun field trips to go on and beach trips. I'm so excited for the things they get to experience here and the things they get to learn. It looks like it will be a great year!