The Garden School Tattler

It's been a wild and crazy week and included my Internet server to fail for several days! Back at it!

We are still enrolling for the school year. It's been a very busy time trying to get children newly settled, re-settled after summer, and introduce new children to the agenda. It's been inordinately hot as well, and going outside to play has been a very hit and miss thing.

Learning new routines is hard for some children, but it's all coming together nicely.

This year, we have the absolute best staff. It's just plain fun coming to school. It's a lot of work but, very rewarding and the rhythm of caring for the kids, teaching and general routine has been engineered by Mandy and Kelly as it should be because they have the classes to teach. E and I follow their lead with our little ones, and dear dear Amy comes in at lunch time and some mornings to pick up everyone's slack and keep us going for the afternoon.

We've been introducing the Our Father and the Salute to the Flag as well as the National Anthem. The kids are picking this up quickly. Miss Amy is also teaching the kids a lot of new songs and they are responding very nicely.

Getting back in the swing of things is tough because it has to be a real pleasure - lots of fun - and sometimes work is work, but we are making delicious progress.