First Day of Second Grade

Life has gotten in the way of our little blog here.  I'd love to share lovely pictures of the spring in Alaska, but first I feel like I should catch up on the first few months of the year. 

This is William on the first day back to school after Christmas break.  I took this picture because he is entering a new grade on this day!  Second Grade!  This process started around Halloween when his first grade teacher, Ms. Steiding, approached me and suggested that we think about moving William into second grade.  Ms. Steiding is a wonderful teacher who had previously taught third grade.  She had been giving him harder work in Math and Reading than the other kids in the class were doing.  He was doing reading and comprehension at a third grade level.  We took some time to think about this decision, but we have known for a long time that William was an extremely smart and bright boy.  We knew he could do the work in second grade and ultimately decided that since his birthday falls in October he would only be younger than many in his class by a couple months and that he would be ok socially.

After Thanksgiving, William began going to the second grade class for math in the afternoons.  It gave him a chance to meet his new teacher, Mrs. Flagg, and to get to know the students.  He did great and really liked it!  So here he is on the first day back to school after Christmas and he will be in Mrs. Flagg's class full time!

By the way, this picture was taken at 8:30 am,  Look how dark it is outside!  The light in the smaller window to the right is from the porch lights.