End of Week 1

The first week of Kindergarten and second grade went well. Ezra got to do “share bag” and take in two items to share with the class. He chose Finn’s wooden snake from the Belize Zoo and the monkey Sergio carved for him from a coconut. The monkey was a huge hit, although I have yet to get any of his friends’ specific comments out of Ezra.

Finn is loving school and, in fact, has told me several times that he loves school. Naptime is his favorite, even though he doesn’t actually nap. I think he’s happy to have the rest, both physically and mentally. I snapped a couple more pictures of him this week. Here he is in line ready to go into the classroom on day 2.

Kindergarten, day 2

And here’s the hat he made and brought home on Friday.

Finn's new hat from week one of kindergarten

On Thursday they had a bit of excitement when a bear wandered into the neighborhood from the local mountains and the sheriffs made them lock down the school. They call it “shelter in place” instead of lock down which has a much sinister connotation, but the kids were kept in their classrooms until the sheriffs could make sure it was safe to release them. This happened at pickup time, so it had the potential to be quite disastrous as far as traffic and panicked parents are concerned. But the school handled it beautifully, walking each child to their car at an alternate pickup site in front of the school. Tedious for the teachers, I’m sure, but everyone was kept safe and sound. Here’s a photo that a friend of a friend took about a block away from school.

Bear

He was said to be in the neighborhood again the next day, but luckily he was far enough away from school that we didn’t have a repeat performance of “shelter in place.”