First day in the First Grade!

Well, it's official, Izabella is in the first grade, and here she is on her first day of school! She's been in school for 2 weeks now, going on her 3rd week and she's really loving it. There's quite a leap from kindergarten to 1st grade, I must say. However, it's do-able. She has to keep a daily agenda and then she has a 3 part homework assignment everyday. She's been breezing through it so far. She is in the AIM program at school for the gifted children. She's taken out of her class on Friday's for 2 1/2 hours. There's 2 others in her class that are also in the AIM program and she had her first class last Friday. So far she seems to like it. There's no extra work or homework with this class, they just take this time to challenge them a little further than they do in her regular classroom so that they get the extra stimulation that the other children might not be ready for. I'm a little worried about her getting bored in class because she's reading at about a 4th grade level so the reading assignments they've been sending home or for very beginner readers. I think they are getting ready to start a "reading counts" program so that she's able to read higher level books to earn points. We'll see how it all works out.

She tried to "play" sick this morning. Said her throat wasn't feeling so well. I did something my mother used to do to me, "if you're too sick for school then we have to go to the Dr. and if you are sick you are getting a shot!" At first she felt better and then she decided it was worth going to the Dr. for. Steve took her in and nothing was wrong with her, no fever, no swelling in the throat, nothing. So, it was off to school she went. Steve had a little chat with her about not playing sick anymore, that her job was going to school and that was what she was going to do. I'm sure we'll have to deal with this again. She's too smart for her own good!