Landon- Kindergarten update 2-11

We are about half way through kindergarten. EEK. You have been riding the bus to and from school every day and it has gone quite well. You get on the bus around 8:40 am (school starts so late here after 915) and get dropped off around 3:50ish. Lee works from home so he can run you out to the bus and grab you at the end of the day, which saves us money and hassel of dropping/picking up to before and after school care at the school.

You have around 20 kids in your room and it is a very diverse class. One of the first weeks of school you came home and told us you weren't cool because you don't speak two languages. lol I think its very cool to be exposed to such diversity at a young age; different customs/cultures etc. You went into school not knowing how to read and with minimal writing skills. You now are writing all your letters, sounding out how to spell things and continuing to move up level by level in reading. You don't always want to read each night but you are good at it. You are a little too good at memorizing things! Sometimes you don't want to sound out words or will guess but if we tell you to sound them out you are very good at it.

You have gotten in trouble a couple of times at school, which just shocks me because you are so shy and unsure of new things. At the 1/2 day intro day you cried when we left you. IT was so hard.. I had to leave the room before I started bawling. Luckily the first day you were just fine and very excited. You got in trouble one day for going to fight (kick) because a boy asked you to go play with him. In music one day at the end you yelled out "Yay we get to do nothing now!" ugh. You like to be the funny man. Your teacher said you were falling for doing things kids would tell you to do but soon realized you'd get in trouble too. AHHH.

You talk about your girlfriends. Katerina from Russia and how you sang a girl your best song on the bus "Body like a backroad." Lord help me! You def like your girls.

You have been taking swim class and doing very well and moving up in the levels. We tried a two week intro to karate and you cried and were scared each time:( I think you really actually liked it and were learning things but the big class atmosphere was making you nervous. I hope you can overcome this fear/anxiety. You like to do the moves you learned at the class at home. Brayden tries to copy you.