First Week of School

Its official, Graham is a first grader.  On Monday when I dropped him off I expected it to be a big deal like in kindergarten where all the moms were taking pictures and crying.  Not so much. I walked Graham to the outside door where he waits for his teacher and I get one picture in but then 2 other little first graders I recognize from last year asked me to help them find their teacher.  I turned around for 2 sec. to help them and when I turned back around Graham's class had already gone in.  I missed it!  I didn't go home yet though.  I sat in the parking lot for 20 min. debating the pros and cons of moving Graham from 9:15 to 8:00.  

Pros

Way fewer kids in his class for reading and math

Reading and math first thing in the morning

Gets home earlier so we have the afternoon to play

Most of his friends have changed to 8

They needed more kids to change to 8 and were more than happy to accommodate us

Cons

We don't do mornings

I'll only get 8 hrs. of sleep instead of 10

So after making a few phone calls from the car (I was still sitting in the parking lot) to be sure about my decision I went ahead and made the change and so far so good.  In fact his teacher thanked me for moving him to 8 and said he does so much better which is funny because she only had him at 9:15 for one afternoon so that must have been some afternoon.

Lunch has been an adventure.  I was going all out the first week and let him have cheetos, sour patch kids, and a capri sun with his sandwich and apple.  The first day he ate everything but as the days went by he ate less and less until all he was eating was half a sandwich.  He says it's because he doesn't want to miss any of his recess.  So now I just pretend that his school lunch time is snack time and then I feed him again at 2:15 when he gets home.