First Day of School 2012

Yeah! It's school time again. A schedule. Kitchen stays clean for a few hours at a time instead of just minutes. The floor can stay picked up for a while. Everyone goes to bed so much earlier (except Lance--he is pretty consistent all year long).The house is quiet during the day. "I'm bored" is a saying for summer.

Dallin started his junior year at Kuna High School. He has three different ag classes this year--one from each teacher: plant and soils, a speech class, and flower arranging. He also has US history, language arts, algebra II, men's choir, and seminary. For the third year in a row he has been pleased with his schedule. Math has a challenging teacher though--she does not really explain things and he needs that. Good thing Lance is so

good at math so he can help Dallin. Dallin didn't tell me a goal for this school year yet. But I bet he has several like: get good grades, play football hard, do his senior project and Eagle Scout project (it can be the same project), and get to districts with discus during track season. 

Bruce is a 7th grader at Kuna Middle School. He is a Golden Eagle. The middle school divides the grades into teams and each team has a group of teachers in a specific hallway making things easier for the students. It also helps the teachers because they can collaborate together in working with student's needs. Bruce was a bit exited to be a Golden Eagle at first because the hallway were their teachers are is the only hallway in the school with big lockers. So it is rumored that all the Eagles get a full-sized locker. Unfortunately that is not

always the case. Poor Bruce. His locker is around the corner from the main hallway and he got a half-sized locker. He was also bummed because most of his friends from Ross were not on his team either. However, school has been better than the inital "get your schedule day" and he's found several other friends in some classes. He did take a typing test on registration day and he was able to get out of "Input Technologies I" where they learn basic document skills and typing. So his schedule got changed and now he's in drama for a quarter and hunter's education for second quarter. His other classes are band--he's playing the

baritone saxophone or bari sax for short. He and Thayne are in band together--pre-algebra, language arts, and  world history. Before school started, I asked the boys to each make a goal for school this year. Bruce's goal is to get straight A's.

Thayne is a 7th grader at Kuna Middle School. He is a Mighty Duck! Dallin was a Mighty Duck too--so he has some of the same teachers Dallin had. Thayne really likes his teachers, especially the p.e. teacher, Mr. Crusat. He has a friend, Blake Morrill, in his p.e. class and they share a locker together because they trust each other. They have to change clothes for p.e. This the first time he's ever had to do anything like that. School started Wednesday and that night Thayne asked Dallin, "So how do you change your clothes for p.e.? Just out in the open in the locker room?" yup!! Dallin agreed that it feels a bit freaky, but warned Thayne to get used to it. That's how it works. (I found the question quite funny because T is the lest modest child in our house!) Thayne's main locker is in the same hall as Bruce's but down the hall from each other.

All the boys have bottom lockers this year--which are less than desirable. He is playing the baritone, aka euphonium in band. He and Bruce both think that Mrs. Peterson is cool. She is too! She makes band really fun from what my flute students have told me. Thayne also has pre-algebra, language arts and world history. Thayne's goal for school this year is to have no zeroes!

Hunter is a 4th grader at Ross Elementary. Ross is a new school for him this year. The elementary schools we are zoned for are split between two building. Indian Creek Elementary has the kindergarteners through third graders. Then they move around the street corner to Ross Elementary for fourth through sixth grade. The schools have the same principal, p.e. and music teachers. Hunter has Miss Cunningham for fourth grade. She is a cute, petite blonde teacher--right up Hunter's ally! He has always had really cute teachers. He already loves her. And that is no surprise, she's a super teacher. He is sitting next to a boy from his

class last year, Sean. He and Sean were a bit competitive with each other last year. Sean's really athletic--I see the future KHS quarterback in him and Hunter's really good at school. I think they were a bit jealous of each other last year. So this is a good year to become friends. Most of Hunter's really good friends all have a different teacher this year. Hunter told me his goal for school this year is to make more friends. I told him it needed to be an academic goal. So he agreed to get straight A's. Although I think his original goal of making new friends will be accomplished too!

Luke is a 2nd grader at Indian Creek Elementary. He has Mrs. Doan who is sweet and kind. He likes her and is happy to go to school each day. I'm really interested to find out what his speech teacher thinks about his speech over the summer. He has had a huge backslide every summer, but I think this summer he continued to improve instead. I don't know much about what has happened at school yet because he isn't much of story teller unless we're totally alone. We haven't had that since school started. Wednesday night we had a pack meeting/boy scout court of honor, Thursday night we had the JV football game, Friday I was doing corn. Maybe today we'll get to hang out and talk. His goal for this year is to be able to read books all by himself--chapter books like Nate the Great.