Does that look like $100 in school supplies to you? Me neither, but it is!
Well, we finally started school yesterday! Yippee! The rest of Portland started about two weeks ago, but our school has been having a lot of facility issues and had to keep postponing the opening day. My kids go to a charter school that has only been open for a couple of years - it's a great, fantastic school and we've been really happy since our daughter started Kindergarten there. It's in its growing phase though and, as such, has needed a bigger building to house all of these wonderful, amazing children. The problem is that finding a building suitable for a school on the West Coast is troubled by the seismic requirements of living in a shaky state. We occasionally have earthquakes (every state has its issues with nature, I know), and the City would rather not see the school come crumbling down. We agree with this, however with a teeny budget and no real expert guidance, we've been the winners of the short end of the stick for quite a while.
However, we were saved last week (seriously, they signed the lease last Friday) when a local synagogue with beautiful, newish classrooms opened their doors to us! We are so thankful!! The whole school is together in one location (K-8), surrounded by trees and trails! This is only temporary while the building we'll be in permanently waits for the green light from the City, but we're so happy with it. Just look at my babies!
Oliver - Kindergartner & Rachel - 2nd Grader!!
Ollie got right to work!
Rachel showing her bestie that she lost her tooth the night before!
After a great first day we celebrated at our favorite ice cream shop!
This is one of those places where you make your own creation - they have everything from the usuals to cereal (I love the cocoa pebbles), and a new one I tried yesterday - cheesecake crumbles! Oh this place is dangerous! We're off to a great start - finally!
2 comments:
Doesn't it kinda make sense to start school on the actual first day of fall?
Ahh...the joys of school purchases. I remember my mom labeling all of our pencil crayons with our names. One thing we've done with our pre-schooler and will likely do when she's in school - is buy some supplies from our local thrift store. You'd be amazed at the number of crayons, old cahiers/writing books, and pencil crayons that end up there.
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