the gillette's: September

Sunday, September 17, 2017

September

September has been busy with getting into the school routine! Annaliese goes to school all day M/W/F and half days on T/TH. Haleigh goes half days on T/TH. I work every other weekend, so when I'm not working, we try to be intentional about getting out and doing something fun as a family.

As far as school goes, Annaliese loves kindergarten! It has been amazing to see how much Spanish she has learned and is able to use since school started! She also loves to write, is always 'doing homework' and has recently started asking us simple math questions!

Annaliese and Keziah at their table

Sylvia, Annaliese, Keziah and Zachariah eating popsicles after the jog-a-thon

All worn out...she ran 10 laps!

Elias' class also participated in the jog-a-thon

School project...the studied bees (las abejas)

Apparently there were quite a few bees on the playground which prompted this lesson!

Recently we were driving somewhere and Annaliese was writing on her magnetic board in the car. We had the following conversation:

Annaliese "How do you spell 'uh'"

Me: "I'm sorry, I don't understand your question."

Annaliese: "How do you spell 'uh'?

Me: "Are you writing something? What are you trying to say?"

Annaliese: "I"m writing Lydia's name. I don't know what comes after D. You know, Ly-D-uh"

It is so fun to see her curious about how to spell things, to sound out letters, and to love writing! She also loves to sing so she will frequently make up songs about just about anything!

Haleigh took a little while to warm up to the idea of school. She started crying as soon as we would approach the classroom. I had to take her home one day because she just never stopped crying, but we have made significant improvements since then and last week she actually walked into her room and sat in her chair without crying at all! Hopefully this trend continues.

Outside of school, we have been able to have a decent amount of fun. We recently switched churches and started attending Christ the King Downtown. It's still a part of CTK, which we have to attend since Kyle works there, but this location is a lot smaller and so far seems to be a better fit for us. They had a Block Party a few weeks ago and we thought it would be fun to attend. They had live music, cornhole, face-painting, free popsicles, a food truck, a bounce house, fun balloons and a photo booth!