First Day of Third Grade!
pamelamyers | September 5, 2018
How, oh how, do we have a third grader? Say it isn’t so! I feel like she just got to her new school and before I know it she will be in middle school. Sam was ready to go on her first day with her new backpack and lunch box.
She asked me if she could do something she has not done in a million years — wear her necklace that she wore every day to preschool. The one with the photo of Mark on one side and me on the other. I don’t think she was nervous about school, but she wanted us with her all the same. I thought it was pretty sweet.
The bus was (sort of) on time. The first week the timing is sort of iffy. Mark is taking Sam Tuesday-Thursday this year because the bus comes so late it will be impossible for me to get to work on time, but on the first day, we always both go to see her off.
Sam had a good day. It is always an adjustment getting used to a new teacher and a new class full of people, but she seemed to take it in stride. There really aren’t any girls in her class she knows except for one that she didn’t know well, but I assured her she’d make lots of friends.
As if the first day of school was not exciting enough, Sam got a visit from the tooth fairy! Her tooth had been loose for a long time and she swore it wouldn’t come out but I couldn’t take it anymore so I asked her if I could give it a tug and it popped right out. (Notice her blue and gold nails? They are the school colors).
Sam had been working on a house for her tooth fairy, Sparkle, to hang out it while she is visiting. Sam got it all set up, including the wand Sam made her, in her room, with a note, of course. She placed her new fairy by the house instead of in our fairy garden for now.
As usual, she got a note from Sparkle. She’s a character, that one.
Let’s hope this school year brings lots of fun!