ZERO HOUR

About one month ago, Mimi came running home all excited "Mom,mom! I made the name of the week today!" Nothing special but for the kids it was and is. Every week Ms. Greenfield has the kids pick a name to practice writing in their journal. Also about one month ago instead of the skinny, teeny, tiny books that she has been coming home with, she is now moving up to the chapter books. I think that having her read "Junie B." and "The Boxcar Children" at home is helping. Also she loves to do Raz Kids and Storyline Online. Her ultimate favorite story is Stellaluna from storyline. I found out that Stellaluna is also very popular among a whole bunch of the first graders at her school. So much so, they are going to take a field trip next month to see the play at the Village Theater up in Bellevue. I do hope that I am picked to go as a chaperon. Our last field trip was in kindergarten and we all went to the Children's Museum in downtown Seattle. That was loads of fun.

Don't know about other schools, but Mimi's school has what they call zero hour. Once a week (Thursday) several kids are selected to go to school one hour before class. There is only one zero hour class per quarter starting with the beginning day as today. There are 3 total zero hour classes that spread all the way till June. First zero hour is art. The next one is math (3/18-5/20), then finally book club (4/14-5/12). I had signed Mimi up for all three and she was accepted into all 3. I just figured that since she is already awake and out of bed by 6:45-7:00, we might as well make some use of her morning. Even though she says that she is not crazy about school, she still likes it because of her friends. In today's class I saw a couple of Mimi's friends such as Halliwell and Lindsey. That alone in itself will make her happy. I have not mentioned any of this to my friends as it has been my experience in the past where Mimi was accepted into a certain activity and their child was not and it was "How come Mimi gets to do it and not my child?" I then and there decided to just tick a lock. People will find out soon enough. Small town living.......sigh.