The Day Before School

8/09/2023

It's crazy to think that the '23-'24 school year starts tomorrow. Even crazier to think about how this means Kyrie will officially be a second-grader. Initially, my husband and I planned on taking the kids out to a movie as a "final summer outing," but decided against it.

Instead, we spent the day at home relaxing and being lazy. We already have Kyrie's supplies in his cubby, and his backpack and uniforms are ready to go. So, I took the opportunity to finish editing some content I intend to use in future posts and tweaking the details for this blog. Another important task I undertook just a few days ago was giving Kyrie's homework whiteboard a makeover for the upcoming school year.

It'll stay as-is for the first few weeks most likely. Once Kyrie gets comfortable in his class and I learn his teacher's methods for teaching and assigning homework, I'll fill in the weekdays with the supplementary content we'll be doing after school. This part of the school year is one I'm always excited about. I love learning new things, especially when I'm learning them with my kids. So I'm excited to get the whiteboard mapped out and to be more involved this year with the additional learning.

Kyrie holding his prize basket.

Kyrie whined the whole day about being bored and told me "I knew it was going to be one of those long days!" Things turned around for him, though, when I told him that our local library called me to tell me that he won one of their raffles from the summer reading program/contest that his grandmother enrolled him in at the start of the summer break. To his delight, he won the gaming-themed gift basket. The thing was so much bigger than we anticipated it would be and was filled with all kinds of cool things like books, puzzles, card games, board games, and candy.

He hated the program the whole time. It required him to read for at least 20 minutes each day and to document his reading sessions. Kyrie claims that he hates reading. That's definitely a lie since I've seen him finish a whole Cat Kid Comic Club book in less than a day. What he really means is that he hates reading things that don't appeal to him. This is supported by the one time over the summer that it took him 45 minutes to read just ten pages in a (large font) second-grader book about Neil Armstrong. What he was actually upset about was not being able to sit on his iPad for hours every day.

He doesn't believe me when I say that the older he gets, the more reading he'll have to do and that he should just get used to it now. We'll see how that ends up going. 😉

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