First Day of School 2011-2012

Hooray for the first day of school!



It has been a great summer and we have had a lot of fun, but we are all glad for the beginning of school and the return to schedules! The school district made a bunch of changes this last year and so the school across the street from us, which was only 5th and 6th grade, is now K-6th. Woohoo! So, both Rebecca and Katrina will be walking across the street to go to school! (No more car pooling for Lora!!)

On the 9th of August we went to the High School to register Amanda for her Freshman year. (Yikes! Already!!) We got her all signed up and her scholarship from last year got her a yearbook and her gym clothes. She got the classes she wanted and she and all her friends were standing around comparing schedules. Amanda will be taking:

1st period - Percussion
2nd Period - PE
3rd Period - Honors English
4th Period - Ag Earth Science
5th Period - Social Science
6th Period - Honors Math - Geometry
7th Period - Keyboarding

Yesterday we received the STAR testing results and the girls did very well. Katrina was too young for STAR testing, so nothing for her, but Amanda scored Advanced on everything (even the things she professes to "hate". Haha!) and Rebecca was high Proficient in English and Science and Advanced in Math! We are so proud of the girls and how hard they work at their education.



Katrina is starting 1st grade at Liberty Elementary this year and is very excited!



Here she is in her classroom. Her teacher, Mrs. Kass was a teacher at Sun Empire last year, so she is comfortable with a teacher she already knows. There are a few kids from her class last year and she came home telling me all about how she made a new friend at school. She said, "I asked her if she wanted to be my friend, and she said yes!" Isn't making friends so easy when you are a kid?!



Rebecca is starting 6th grade at Liberty Elementary, and her teacher is Mr. Sanchez. Rebecca is very excited to have a teacher who is a man, as she has never had one before. When we went to Back to School Night earlier this evening and we were sitting in Mr. Sanchez' class he said something about this being the Honors class. I glanced over at Rebecca and she whispered, "I just found that out today." We were completely unaware, but very happy to find out that Rebecca is in the Honors class this year! She worked so hard this last year to keep her grades high and it paid off!!



Amanda is starting 9th grade, a Freshman at Kerman High School! Go Lions!! She is happy to be in Percussion again and her Ag Earth Science teacher is a very good friend of ours, so she is happy to have her as a teacher. Amanda plans to try out for the basketball team again this year, will continue in CJSF, will continue volunteering at the Library, and starts Seminary at the beginning of next week.

This is going to be a great year!!