Back To It All

My summer break really seemed to just fly by! Now here we are back to work and school. I've been in my classroom all week getting set up. What a difference from last year. Last year I really had no idea what I was doing. It was all so different from my last school. This year I feel like a pro. We have our homevisits next week. If you remember from last year, that's when we visit each child in his/her home before school starts. It's such a great way to see the child in his/her own environment. It's so helpful when school does start because it allows us to have more insight about the students.

Ella's first day of Kinder is on Wednesday. She has to report at school on Tuesday afternoon for a Kinder Assessment. I have no idea what that is, but I'm sure that she'll do fine on it. We went to her school last night to "meet her teacher." It was a schoolwide event and packed. We had to wait in line just to enter the school building. Then, her classroom was packed and we really didn't have the chance to "meet the teacher" because all 60 of her students (morning and afternoon classes) were trying to meet her too.

On a sad note, one of my colleagues is missing. He went on a hike in late July and never returned. Unfortunately, they didn't begin searching for him until almost two weeks after the hike. He lives alone and I'm not sure if his family and friends realized that he was missing. There are a lot of things that we just don't know. His family is really keeping a lot of information to themselves. There's probably a lot that they don't know. It's a sad way to start the school year off. My last post is a link to the most recent article about him.

Our trip last week to S.F. and Fresno was a good time for Ella and I. I didn't really have the chance to take too many pictures, but I'll try to post the ones that I have soon. Whenever I travel alone with Ella I'm horrible at remembering to take pictures!

Another note - we haven't found another snake in the garage since the last time I wrote (we did find one in the yard a few days ago). Whit removed the rocks that surrounded that side of the house and also filled the hole with a foam that hardens to fill holes. So, it seems like it worked...for now.