First day of school!! YAY! (It's been a long hard summer....)
This year we are in Maryland and we no longer have our traditional brick wall backdrop. Only three are in school still, but, Rachel and Samantha are starting college here in Maryland. I had to actually lighten these photos because we have to leave for school at seven in the morning! Three kids in three schools, AND, in three different little towns, makes for an early morning. Charlie and Joey have to be in class by seven thirty, but, JMichael catches a bus at the end of our driveway at eight thirty. One crazy thing about Maryland schools - the kids now have lockers. All three of the schools have lockers, even the elementary schools. Another crazy thing about Maryland schools - very high tech. Josephine was issued an iPad, which she keeps for the whole year. All sixth and seventh graders get one. The students even keep them over the summer! Charlotte has a MacBook Air. A sweet little laptop that she keeps until she graduates! Whoa. Homework is on Google Classroom and the ladies say they use them in every class, even PE.
Charlotte is playing on the school's volleyball team and wants to play basketball in the winter and lacrosse in the spring. She's a second soprano in the choir, which is super small, 8 girls. No guys. So every voice counts. They will perform in the area and are already working on Christmas music. Josephine applied and was accepted into the STEM Academy - about twenty-five students from each grade get in. It's an advanced Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics curriculum. She goes to the same class schedule as every other seventh grader, but, her math, science and technology classes are advanced and fast paced. She will get to go on special field trips to the river and bay, plus "walking trips" to the college for experiments in their labs. She's very excited and loves school so far. JMichael? Well, he's loving his new school, says his teacher is really nice and in the first two weeks of school he has two field trips. Two, already? These kids may live it he country, but, the schools use the proximity to the cities to their advantage. Ahhh, Maryland. Come see us!
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