First Day Of First Grade

Well my baby has officially started the 1st Grade. She started on August 25th and she absolutely LOVES it! She was so excited to get up that morning. I walked in the room and she jumped up ready to go! Of course now that it is Oct. 2nd and she has almost 6 weeks under her belt, it is getting harder and harder for all of us to get up every morning. haha Ally has a great teacher who is wonderful with the kiddos. On the first day she was much more confident and not as shy as the first day of Kindergarten. She has 3 kiddos from her Kindergarten class in her 1st grade class this year and one of them is a little girl who she is pretty good friends with. That helped a lot. Her 2 "best" friends are in a different class together. She wasn't really happy about that but has decided that it is OK because she is going to invite them to her birthday party. She was very proud to show off Chris to all of her new friends. I did really well until I saw on the board that she gets to make a lunch choice this year and then the tears hit when I realized that this is now "real" school. She is officially a big girl! It seems like just yesterday that I was in 1st grade! So yes, mommy cried!! She is reading really well and has started doing spelling tests. She has made a 105 on the 2 tests she has already had. She has a homework folder that has homework that she has to do every night and a parent has to sign it ever night. Wednesday is really hard to get homework done because we have church all day long! By the time I get home we have 15 or so minutes and then we have to get back to the church. We usually have to play catch up on Thursday. She also has a Monday folder that the school sends home with her discipline grade for the week, memos, and requests for money (HAHA) in it. It also has to be signed and returned on Tuesday. So far this has been a great school year. I just pray it keeps going as well as it has been! There is this one little girl that gives her a hard time. We have talked about it and I told her that she just acts that way to get attention. Ally said 'Oh that's kinda sad." Here comes the tough lessons in life I'm afraid!!