The big 2nd Grader!
Can you believe that it is time for school already? Well it is. This morning I brought Ian to school for his first day of second grade.....amazing. What I found even more amazing was what happened when we went to visit his classroom yesterday. For those of you who don't know our kids are in a Spanish immersion program at Zeeland Christian. This means that they are taught all of their subject in Spanish by native speakers. Ian had a great year last year and excelled greatly in not only his general subjects, reading...spanish and english, but also math, science and every other thing you learn in 1st grade. Anyway, we have not heard much if any Spanish out of him all summer, except for one conversation he had with a guy at Walmart about fireworks. But, when he walked into his classroom yesterday he started speaking in Spanish...it was truely amazing and to tell you the truth I got a little teary-eyed. What an amazing thing...he also did an entire room scavenger hunt, in spanish, without my help....I don't know any more than about three words! So....on to another year of Spanish for Ian and WOW what an amazing thing. He will be considered bilingual when he is done with the 5th grade!!!!
Ready for school with a new backpack and shoes...didn't want to wear any new clothes!!
And......Kendra started Kindergarten at 12:30 this afternoon! Wow...she is getting so old! Kendra is just starting the Spanish immersion program so we will see how it goes. The first month or two is always a little interesting because the teacher speaks all Spanish and the kids no none. Kendra is so excited to be a big kid and go every day!
Love the short hair....how about you?
4 comments:
Holy cow! Is Kendra a mini-Beth or what?!? I cannot believe that Ian is in second grade...and speaks Spansih. Way cool!
Hi Beth, Mark and the foursome,
As I look at Kendra I wonder if possibly that could be one of my own grandchildren some day. The pictures are adoreable. I check your blog about once a week to see what you have been up too. We plan on coming up the weekend of the 21st of September to see everyone and celebrate Josh and Meg's trip and Jennie's birthday. It sounds like you might be the lucky ones to pick up Josh and Meg. I am jealous! How fun that will be for all of you. Give them a big hug from John and I. See you soon. Love, Debi
I can't believe school starts already!! I can't wait to see you soon... And tell Kendra the short hair cut is sooo cute!
This last post was not written by josh but rather Megan who was too lazy to log out of my account. Though I do like the new haircut Kendra.
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