First Three Weeks

Lucas and Chloe are now in the same school, five minutes drive from the house. Lucas starts at 7.40am and Chloe starts at 8.30am. Lucas finishes at 2pm and Chloe finishes at 1.15pm. Sometimes I send them on separate trips and sometimes together. I have prepared them and it seems to be working out well. During school holiday, I kept reminding Lucas he has to sleep an hour earlier as he has to wake up an hour earlier. It worked thus far. The kids are ready in bed by 7.30pm and asleep by 8.30pm. I have to move their schedule forward, playground time is earlier and dinner time is earlier.

The first 3 weeks for Lucas was a mixture of feeling bored, anxious and excitement. He is bored as he said the school work,especially Math is too easy. Today, he told his teacher to give him something difficult and the teacher gave him Year 3 Math. Lucas is in Year 1. Lucas then get a bit excited saying it is very difficult and his face was grinning when he said that. Guess he needs to do something he doesn't know to excite him. His classroom is in a new building and that building is huge compared to previous year. He is anxious and sometimes not too sure where to go for assembly and canteen. Every morning, he insists that I walk with him to his class, and then walk with him to the assembly. His teacher will then walk them to the classroom. I decided to let him take his time until he is comfortable to walk on his own.

Chloe meanwhile was sick for half of the 3 weeks. She caught a very bad bug on the second week and had been missing school for a few days. She is sick again this week. She did not cry on the first week. On the second week, after she returned from her sick days, she wailed when I left her classroom. She clamped to me like a crab. Third week was good. She was actually very happy and asked me not to go inside her classroom. She is always excited after school telling me what she had for breakfast and lunch in school, and what did she do.

For me, I have to wake up and hour earlier. Get myself ready and then wake the kids up. At days when I had to work late, it is hard to get up. Well, I better get used to it. It will be like this for the next 12 years!