First Days of School 2022-23 School Year

I realized I forgot to post about the start of our school year! Here we are 8 weeks into the year and we are on Fall Break, so it's definitely time for an update.

School started Tuesday, August 16. Trent and Paige returned to their same classes - Adolescent Community {7th-8th grade} for 8th grade, which is the LAST YEAR at our school, and Paige returned to her Primary Community {Pk3-K} for Kindergarten. Drew moved up to Upper El {4th-6th grade} for 4th grade.

Paige Noelle

Nido ~ PK4

Paige is happy as a clam returning to her beloved Sassafras community with Ms. Liliana and Ms. Maria, two of her favorite humans on the planet. She is loving being the big kid in class. I get comments on a regular basis about her helping the little kids {from her and her guides}. She loves going to PE, which is new for her this year! The kindergarteners took their first benchmark test this year, and she scored 98% {math} and 99% {reading}, so I'd say she's doing just fine academically! {grin}

Little Ms. Kindergarten

Drew Kathleen

Casita ~ 3rd Grade

Drew is having the hardest start to the year. Everything is different for her this year - she's now the youngest grade in a new level, new teachers, different side of the building, doesn't have her besties in class... She is still exceling in class - she has already been given extra responsibility because she is responsible, respectful, a rule-follower, all the things...but she's not very happy in class which makes me VERY sad. It's getting better over time, so I'm confident we'll get there! We got her STAAR test scores over the summer {the standardized test for Texas public schools}, and she did great! She also did good in her beginning of year benchmarking test. I'm just looking forward to her feeling good soon.

4th Grade

Trent Kinder ~ 7th Grade

It's been an interesting start to the year for Trent. He's happy to be back with his friend group, doesn't complain at all about going...yet he is getting in trouble consistently. His STAAR scores were the highest he's had {Mastering both parts}, he is 1 of 2 8th graders doing 2 Math curriculums, his benchmarking scores increased a lot from last year...so academically things are going great! We just need his behavior to settle down!

Too cool to smile 8th grader

I can't believe this is our last year with all 3 kids at the same school and that Trent will go to high school next year. I am going to miss the convenience of 1 drop-off and 1 pickup and knowing the school and administration so well. We have a tentative plan in place for next year that I'm excited about, but we'll see how the rest of this year shakes out.