Jack's backpack

Today started Jack's second week at his new school. I'm getting used to the routine there and wanted to share what comes home in his backpack (mainly for the grandparents). All of Jack's work completed during the day comes home in his yellow folder. All homework to be completed each night is in the blue folder. He also has a planner that he's responsible for writing his assignments in each day. This is a work in progress! I love how personal responsibility is stressed though at such a young age.

We got his new 10 spelling words today that he needs to learn by Friday. He also is reading out of a SRA book and each night we are assigned pages to read. All of the homework takes about 15-20 minutes if you count the reading so we're done pretty quickly.

Jack is the student of the week this week so that his class can learn more about him! He gets to bring in a book each day and then a special toy on Friday. He's super in to Garfield these days so he'll be bringing in a huge 200+ page Garfield compilation book tomorrow :)

I pick up Jack now and every day he's so happy. He willingly tells me all about his day and who he played with at recess, etc. He is also taking a religion class and told me how he learned about "two kids that Jesus brought back to life after they died" :)