So today is the official First Day of School for this year. Lots of changes. First, Devon & Marisa are no longer in the same school, and won't be in the same building ever again. Our HS has 2 campuses, 1 for 9th & 10th graders and another for 11th & 12th graders. So unless she takes a higher level class when she is a 10th grader and he is a 12th grader, they will be in different buildings! They are growing so fast!
Devon is a High Schooler now! He wouldn't let me go to the bus stop with him. LOL. I didn't really ask, I just said I thought he wouldn't be cool with that, at which point he agreed. I did take his picture before he left the house.
Marisa is in 7th grade now. Almost the biggest kids at school. She got sick this morning. Actually threw up. I'm not sure why, but I think it was nerves, because by the time we got to the bus stop, she was reasonably fine.
Last night we had an open house at the High School. The principal spoke for a while, and then we got to go through his schedule to his classes. Just about 10 min per class. Enough to meet the teachers and get list of supplies. Thankfully not much in supplies. Binders, paper, pens, pencils, protractor, calculator and white erase markers. We had all but the last. I had fun going down the halls from room to room. Even though maybe only 30% of the parents were there, sometimes the busy intersections that Devon warned me about were quite congested. Can't imagine when there are 1200 kids changing classes at the same time, with 1/2 of them nearly clueless! LOL. He was already talking about finding short cuts and which halls to avoid...
One thing that I'm looking forward to is being able to monitor all his grades, and not having to wait for progress reports. We've stressed to him that now it really counts, grades wise. I know, he'll be fine.
OMG, just a measly 6 years from now and both my kids will be high school graduates!
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How can you monitor the grades? I hope he enjoys high school; so many kids find a niche and love it! Sometimes 7th and 8th grade are more difficult due to friends and cliques.
Hmm, I thought I responded to this...
We have something called webgrader. Each student is assigned a user and password, which we picked up at Parent Orientation. We can log in and review what the teachers have submitted. I am a little concerned with some of the people he has switched over to. Not sure I like them all, but I will reserve judgement for a little while.
Marisa has been dealing with cliques since 1st grade, so nothing new there. So far things are going well with her. One of her past friends that had been not so friendly seems to be coming back around, and she is happy about that.
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