First Day of School

Well this school year is definitely bound to be an interesting one, to say the least, but luckily the kiddos have a great attitude and they were both so excited to start the school year.  Brooklyn is in 2nd grade at Galileo Stem Academy with Mrs. Cox as her teacher.  McKay is in his first year of preschool with teacher Carey. Both kids school years got pushed back a little bit because of Covid, so Brooklyn started the day after Labor Day with remote learning, which meant at home with an iPad and Microsoft Teams.  We did our best to set up a "school" zone in the tech room.  After 2 weeks of complete remote learning she then went to hybrid learning which was every other day at school and then at home for a week and then was finally able to head to school everyday (wearing a mask of course while she was at school).  After a few weeks of being at school every day they then had to go back to hybrid because of a bunch of teachers called in sick and there weren't enough subs.  Luckily her teacher was not part of the "sick out".  This week we are finally back to school everyday again.  Luckily Brooklyn has just rolled with it all and has had a great attitude, unlike her mother at times.  She loves her teacher (so do I) and she really enjoys the kids in her class.

McKay was so excited to be able to go to school like his sister and to say that I was excited would be the understatement of the year.  His teacher is in our ward and just lives a neighborhood over from us, which makes it super convenient.  Luckily he does not have to wear a mask and they are school as normal.  He looks forward to school every Monday and Wednesday morning and runs right in without looking back.  I keep waiting for his teacher to text or call me to tell me that McKay tackled someone or wouldn't stop wrestling, but so far he has been a good little student.  He has loved having Brooklyn home more and is so bored with me when she is at school.  He was very disappointed when I told him she would be at school every day this week, I guess I'm just not as fun as Brooklyn.