Monday, February 2, 2009

Kindergarten Round-Up!

I just got the information for kindergarten round-up from Tanner and Logan's pre-school. So next month we'll be registering the boys for kindergarten in the fall. I seriously can't believe the time has already come for us to start thinking about school soon! It is kind of sentimental for me to think that soon I will be sending them off on the bus each day. I thought I would be super excited about this...when Mallory and Preston were born I thought "if I can just survive the next two years until the boys go to Kindergarten I'll be ok:)"...but now I'm starting to get a little emotional thinking about it. I think I will really miss them and miss our days together where we have no schedule and are free to do what we want to do each day. They have had a great pre-school experience so I am not worried in the slightest about them adjusting to school...I think they will thrive...I'll just miss them:( I am feeling this "mother hen" thing, where I want to protect them and shelter them and just worry about them being at school where I'm not there to be the mediator between them and the world to explain things to them. I won't be there to listen to them, correct them, and be their advocate. A little scary for me. Ok, I'm seriously tearing up right now...silly I know. They will be going to Miller. I am curious to see whether they want twins to be in the same class or separate classes. Their pre-school teacher says she thinks they will want to separate them, which makes me so SAD. Kindergarten is a big adjustment in itself and Logan and Tanner have done everything together since birth...to be separated would be like cutting off their right arms! I hope they can stay together at least for a year or two. They will feel more secure and confident that way. Anyways...on a more positive note...both Tanner and Logan are reading! We have been working with white boards each day and I will write a word on the board and hold it up. They will sound out each sound of the word and figure it out. We've done hundreds of words and most of them they figured out on their own! We've also been working on writing and spelling. I'll say a word and they try to figure out how to spell it. This is a little harder, but they are doing well. I never realized how weird the English language was until I tried to teach them how to read. For example...I'll say, "spell drums" and Tanner writes 'DRUMZ'. When I say it's spelled DRUMS he will try to dispute it because it sounds more correct the way he wrote it:) Anyways...enough rambling...I'm just so proud of my boys:) I just hope and pray I have taught them well and have prepared them academically, physically, socially, and emotionally enough to enter kindergarten and be successful and happy!

7 comments:

  1. I am sure that the first day for the boys, will be both bitter and sweet. You are always so on top of everything, imgaine all the other things you will be able to accomplish when you have only 2 babies at home. You might actually have time to take up a hobby, or read, or do your make-up, visiting teaching, planning play groups... wait a minute... you already do all of that! I have NO idea what you will do with your time! You better start for more babies!!! =)

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  2. You're right, the first day of kindergarten is a really happy and really sad day. Most mothers stand their and linger with a tear in their eye. It's the beginning of a new era with an end to the old. But the thing that is consistent through the whole thing is love and attention. I know you will continue to do that beautifully!

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  3. Its so hard to believe they are going to Kindergarden next year. I will be sad when my boys start going to school too. I think I'll be ok with Pre-school but Kindergarden will be hard. I hope they keep your boys in the same class. Its something I am already thinking about. I want my boys to be in the same class. We are even concidering private school for that reason. I know St. Pat's let
    s the parents decide if the kids should be together or not. It should be the parents decision. I am anxious to hear what Millers policy is.

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  4. School's great! You'll love it... I mean they will love it. I LOVE phonetic spelling, I never want to correct it because I think it makes them look BRILLANT!

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  5. Man, Julie, way to go on teaching them letters and reading. Can we swap kids for a few weeks and you can teach Max? I don't know how you do it. I'm sure you can request for the boys to be together. If it's important to you, just make that known.

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  6. Oh, it's horrible. I love and adore her teacher and I still hate it. I still have to pretend like it's okay when I drop off Sunshine every day. I hate it. The only good parts are snow days and holidays!

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  7. Kindergarten isn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be - don't worry too much about it! You will be a little sad....expect that for sure! BUT, you can volunteer like I do and it will make you feel TONS better about things....it sure helps me anyway. Just knowing what Kylene is up to and who she is around puts me at ease. As far separating them goes, I think they probably ought to stay together - I don't see why the school would have an issue with it unless it became an issue, ya know?? Kylene has twins in her class and they are doing AWESOME - just since the beginning of the year, they are making their own friends and doing their own thing but still get to rely on eachother.

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