Silas - Kindergartner! (0.b)

Silas is now a kindergartner, or in danish, he is in the class 0.

His first day was quite short just 9-11 and both Søren and I were there the whole time.  There was a little program in the gym with all the students and the teachers sang a really cute and fun song about starting the new school year.  Also , all of the students in class 0 were asked to come up to the front.  Silas looked really nervous standing up there, but also proud.

We had some time in his class room, hearing about practical things and rules.  Silas found his desk and got some books.  They have an arrangement that the 5th graders at the school act as school friends for the first few weeks.  They show the 0 class kids around and play with them at recess.  Silas' friends name is Lasse and they played together a bit on the first day.

On day 2, his first official day without Mom and Dad, I picked him up at his classroom right at 12:30 when they got done.  All the kids flooded out, but not Silas.  I looked into the classroom and heard him say to his teacher.  "See you tomorrow, thanks for a nice day!"  When he came out to me he had the biggest smile on his face.  "Mom, it was the best day ever, I love being a school."  He just had this aura about him, and I could tell that he really was happy.  This brought tears to my eyes and we talked the whole bike ride home about what he had done, etc.  One of his highlights was beating Lasse, his school friend, at soccer!  We had a little time just the two of us (and Liam) before we picked up Benjamin and we all enjoyed that time.

Wednesday and Friday he went to SFO, which is an after school progam where kids can go after school while their parents are still working.  He had been there 4 days last week to get a feel of it, and he also enjoys it there.  They actually just built the building, so it's brand new and has lots of fun activities, etc.  Here they are quite independent to play with each other and the other students in 0-3rd classses.

We are so happy that Silas had such a great start and we look forward to the weeks to come, even if we do have to get used to our morning schedule of needing to be out the door by 7:30am!

All 0. class to the front

Class 0.b

 A little video from tuesday!