Leslie's Blog

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree"
~Emily Bronte

Last night while I was going over Libby’s homework she told me that 12 of the 18 students in her class received letters yesterday that they were being moved out of her class and into another class. She told me that she then said to her teacher, “Wow, our class is going to be vacant after they leave” and her teacher told her that the vacancies were being filled with 4th graders because their class was becoming a 3rd/4th grade combo class! Libby was put in a 2nd/3rd grade combo class last year which at first made me nervous. I volunteered once a week for two years at her elementary school and I know without a doubt that teachers don’t have enough time to get through everything that is expected of them with the students – and those were classes that the students were all on the same grade level and now 1 teacher was going to have to teacher two different grade levels?? But, even though the teacher last year was a horrible heifer of a woman it worked out wonderfully for Libby to be in that class because in 2nd grade she was exposed to the entire 3rd grade curriculum. She came home writing in cursive and doing multiplication which was never in her homework. I asked her how she knew cursive and multiplication because it was never on her homework and she said that she learned it listening to her teacher teach the 3rd graders. I know that this year will be just as educational for her and she’ll be working on 4th grade curriculum. And to make it even better she gets to stay in her same class with the same wonderful teacher. She lost most of her friends because they had to be moved out to an all 3rd grade class but she did keep her favorite friend in her class, Emma. So, she has the same classroom/teacher, her favorite friend, and 4th grade curriculum when she’s in 3rd grade. Not bad!

The cutest part of my day: this morning Libby wanted to wear earrings that dangle so I put them on her and she was sitting at the table eating breakfast and asked if I put the “stopper” on the earrings because they were French hook earrings. I told her I did but asked why she was asking. She said, “Because I’m going to be bouncy today.” I asked if she had P.E. today and she replied, “No, I just feel like being bouncy today!” How cute. :-) Oh to be a kid and just think, “hey, I think I’ll be bouncy today.” :-)