First Day of School

Today was the first day of school for both Shayna and Skyler.

Shayna is in 6th grade at Omni Middle School. http://www.omnimiddle.org/

We went to the open house Thursday night and she got her schedule, bought her gym clothes, and we walked around campus to find all her classes. She has 6 classes located in various buildings all connected with outdoor covered walkways. She took the bus in the morning and I picked her up at the end (they get out at 4:05PM). Her classes all have syllabuses. She has gifted world cultures, gifted science, then lunch, band, gifted math, P.E., and gifted language arts. I contacted the guidance counselor to see about getting her into the algebra 1 honors class...she will be tested later this week. more details about the individual classes in the future...although overall I am extremely impressed with the curriculum. finally-- challenging and enriching course work for shayna. also more details on intramurals/clubs...so far shayna wants to try out for cheerleading but that is not until Nov. or Dec.

Skyler started pre-K at Discovery preschool. he is going full time. he is in the Mickey class in the morning from 9am-1:30pm. In the afternoon is the "VPK" program from 2:30pm-5:30pm, he is in the Donald class. The time from 1:30-2:20 can be free time (centers) or enrichments. Skyler will do karate on Mondays, Computers on Thursdays, and Spanish on Fridays. I am enrolling him in swimming for one of the other days. There is an outdoor pool there and a swim school. They will get him to swim lesson, changed and then back to his VPK class. He will also get the specials in the morning program of spanish once a week, sign language, music, gym, and media. I enrolled him full time but don't intend on having him there until 5:30pm most days. I will pick up Shayna first and then go pick him up...so he will get picked up anywhere from 4:30 to 5pm depending how the car line goes at Shayna's school, traffic, etc. The curriculum there has writing, math, calendar, money, science, reading (learning sight words, word families etc.). His Mickey class is small, about 10 kids, so I asked his teacher to work with him on his reading, as he knows all his letter sounds and is starting to read.

School is closed Tuesday due to Tropical storm Fay which is hitting this area as a rainstorm with high winds.

Snorkeling

We went to Red Reef Park today in Boca around low tide. This is one of our favorite spots to snorkel and look around the rocks/reefs.

Skyler snorkeled today and did so well, unfortunately we did not have the under water camera but use your imagination. He was swimming around on his own and kept his head down in the water for very long periods of time. Since it was low tide there was a large area where he could stand, although at times he would swim out a bit further. He loves looking at all the crabs and colorful fish.

4 year old check up

Skyler had his 4 year old check up today. here are his stats:

Height= 41" (75%)

Weight= 40.2 lbs. (80%)

His speech seems to have caught up and the Dr. said he was talking at his age level and in complete sentences.

Goodbye Sippy Cup

About 2 weeks ago Skyler decided he only wanted to drink from a regular cup and not the sippy cup.

on a side note, I know I am 3 or so months behind on this blog, life has been insanely busy (even too busy for blogging oh my)...and will really try and catch up on our excitingly busy lives and what we have been up to the last few months.