School and sports

Can't believe we are half way through Scott's kindergarten year.  We continue to love his class and his teacher and recently we have found ourselves working on lots of projects at home.  Back in January they did an arctic unit and during that unit each student had to do a report on an arctic animal of their choice.  Scott chose the arctic fox and we had a great time getting books from the library, learning and writing down facts about the arctic fox and printing and drawing pictures to make a poster to present to his class.  

I appreciate that our school really emphasizes the students doing these projects on their own with minimal help from parents, nothing is more annoying than letting your kid do something on their own that they are proud of and then the kid next to them in class comes in with some professional poster clearly done by their parents.  I loved every project I saw and I really enjoyed watching Scott learn from this process.

T- ball has started up and Scott has loved going out side to practice nearly every day since we got his gear.

Owen just missed the cut off for this year but that doesn't stop him from getting out there for his turn when we play backyard ball.

Just a fun little picture I got of Scott and two of his buds on our recent field trip to the Moorpark College learning zoo.  We had a super great time having the zoo to ourselves and learning so much about all the animals from the zookeeper students.

Kinders hanging out at college....no big deal.

Owen's usually hang out while waiting to pick up Scott.  Lunch under the board.

We celebrated the 100th day of school a few weeks ago with a little party in class as well as a 100th day of school project at home.  Scott chose to do his in perler beads and his day was made when his teacher told him that as long as she'd been doing this project no one had ever used perler beads.

Some days I pick up Scott first while Owen gets to stay at picnic pals.  Its especially fun to bring Scott back to his old preschool to hang with all his friends who are still there.  He really loves being "the big kid".  This particular day Scott had a new library book that he was ready to his friend Nelly.  The cutest thing in the world.