Remember this face??
He was just enrolled in First Grade!
From experience, I know what happens in first grade. The teachers, they don't advertise it, but this is what happens. At some point during first grade, they do some major changing and one morning your student will wake up, and you will see that he or she is not a baby anymore. They are big kids, reading books, adding numbers, subtracting numbers, talking about mammals and what makes a mammal be mammal, talking about equality, entrepreneurship and how Columbus sailed the ocean blue. They start to smell funny, grow much taller, can't kiss their mothers in public, chase girls (although they don't really know why yet), start loosing their teeth and tell really terrible and not funny jokes. They start to become dependable in larger tasks, follow several step directions and come to logical conclusions on their own. Folks, independence really takes off here, and your babies, they aren't babies anymore! So kiss those baby cheeks while they are there, because sometime during first grade, they grow up too.
**Stay tuned for the next school related post, which will give you great advice in what kinds of teacher gifts to be looking for, and no, none of them involve apple printed anything.**
3 comments:
I WAS doing okay with this whole first grade thing...thanks to you I will start to freak out now that my baby is going into first grade. I know all about first graders too, but I think I was in denial about how much they grow up in first grade and how different she will be next year this time when they are second graders.
Good to know. :) I'll be your shoulder...I'm sure you'll get emotional at work. :)
They grow up way too fast, don't they? Our babies are gone - it's so bittersweet.
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