We have all started school now. I will have to do some catch up posts with the rest of our trip and moving into our apartment. We were able to see friends from our church in Baltimore and spend one night with Stephen's Aunt Lois and Uncle Bill.
Today, I am just going to talk about the kids school, and I will try to do other posts of our school, our apartment, the campus, and the area around us.
Ian and Isabelle are both in the Lennoxville Elementary School, which is about 5-10 minutes from our apartment. It is an English school technically, but it is about 1/2 English and 1/2 French. Ian started Tuesday, and Isabelle started Wednesday. (The kindergarten students come one day later, and their parents get to stay for the first hour.)
There are two Kindergarten teachers, and the 2 classes rotate between them. One speaks all English to the class, and the other all French. They are both very nice, and Isabelle has been very happy so far.
The third grade has an English homeroom, and a French homeroom. Ian is in the English homeroom, but has the French teacher for French, social studies and science.
One thing that is different is that they have shoes they keep at school-their inside shoes-- and shoes they wear home, and out to lunch and recess. Both kids have gym clothes that keeps at school (Ian brings his home to wash on the weekends.) They both have an our for lunch, in which they eat and then play on the playground. Ian signed up for an intermural soccer league that plays Wednesday during lunch.
The school bus stops right in front of our building, and once we get their bus passes they will both ride the bus. (It takes awhile for the paperwork to go though.) They are both really excited about riding the bus. Right now I am enjoying picking them up from school, so I don't really mind if the paper work takes a little while.
As for Caleb, he is stuck at home with his parents. The language school had enough beginners for 2 classes. I go to the morning sessions and Stephen to the afternoon. I will write more about that later. We may put Caleb in day care on Wednesday because there are a few things we both have to attend, and it would be good for him to be around other French speakers some.
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I went to TiQuisia's the other day, and Cristian asked me, "What is your name again?" I told him (again), and then he asked, "Are you a car rider?" Apparently, it's a big status thing to be a car rider, even in kindergarten. I'm sure Ian and Isabelle will really enjoy riding the bus, though---It's something new and different, not that they don't have any other new and different things going on! I'm glad they're adapting well!
WOW!! How exciting..new schools, bus riding, soccer and French! How can ya beat that?? lol :) What an adventure! I'm glad things are working out with Caleb too and I'M sure he's champing at the bit to get to school too!
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