Can't believe my 'babies' are growing up so fast!! (yes, those ARE cute, pink-bow-wearing-SKULLS on her backpack!) Chunky Monkey has started Kindergarten and Soy Boy, 4th grade! I've realized that this year & next are the only 2 years that they will be in the same school! Poor Chunky Monkey will be on her own for the majority of her school years & Soy Boy is 'off the hook' for protecting his little sister!
We couldn't be more proud of both of them. Soy Boy started AIG (academically & intellectually gifted) math & reading this year & is very amused that his dad and I are not able to solve the brain teasers he's been bringing home. Chunky Monkey has started a very challenging but incredible Spanish Immersion program. This means that she will be taught K-5 in Spanish only (standard English classes will come in 2nd grade). I've been told that a couple of the children had a little problem adapting, maybe to the Spanish or maybe to kindergarten itself, but Chunky Monkey has taken it all in stride and is perplexed as to why anyone would have a problem with it! Her teachers, pictured above, are from Uruguay and Columbia.
We were sitting at lunch last weekend & Chunky Monkey was going down a laundry list of Spanish words that she has learned and telling us what they meant. . .with our limited knowledge of Spanish, we took her Spanish word for backpack, mochila, and started thinking of Spanish words that we could put INTO our mochila. . .so this is what Foodie Dad came up with. . .agua, lunchero and mucho blanco pollo. . .many -- white -- chickens!
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