Posted by: Sarah on: September 9, 2009
The first day of kindergarten went very well… Shoshanna can’t wait to go back tomorrow. They had music class and art time – they started painting rainbow fish to hang from the ceiling of their classroom. She loved riding the bus and has declared that she wants to stay “on green” (good behavior) [...]
Posted by: Sarah on: April 15, 2009
We’ve known this unofficially for a couple of weeks, but the paper confirmation came today. Shoshanna got into the gifted & talented magnet school for kindergarten next year. We are thrilled, of course. But because this process can’t be easy even one step of the way, there is one and only one day for kindergarten [...]
Posted by: Sarah on: January 8, 2009
By complete happenstance, I got to see some of Shoshanna’s gym class at school today. We slept in a bit this morning, so we got to school at about 10 ’til 9, and then I chatted with a friend in the locker room before heading upstairs to work out, so by the time I was [...]
The contrasts of Shoshanna…
Posted by: Sarah on: November 20, 2008
This week really encapsulates the contrasts of Shoshanna…
On Tuesday morning, we were at the Frederick Law Olmsted school for her kindergarten readiness testing – phase one of finding out if she qualifies for the gifted & talented program.
48 hours later, I was at Aspire meeting with a social worker to give her “social history” in [...]