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It's the first day of school for kids in the Syracuse City School District, it's raining hard, and it's a long sprint for a little third-grader to the school's front door. Jason's mom lives on the other side of town, and has to put his sister on the school bus there, while my wife worked a double and can't be at home to see him off either.
But he knows that his grandma works extra to buy him school clothes and shoes and that she treated us to dinner at Friendly's last night even though she couldn't be there. It was her way of rewarding the very productive day we had finishing up the packet sent home by the third grade teachers for over the summer.
So this morning he hopped out of the car wearing his new jeans and shirt and sneakers and brought with him a summer reading log full of Magic Treehouse books and a month's worth of practice in the dry-erase books which we successfully used to improve his handwriting.
He also went there knowing why it's important, even at his age, that he do well in school and with an understanding that he needs to stay focused, all on his own, because I probably won't be in the classroom with him this year.
But as hard as we've worked to instill that sense of personal responsibility, I hope he carries with him an equally strong sense that we are here for him. That even if we're not in the classroom, or even able to see him off on his first day as a third-grader, we're ready to do whatever a family can to help him be successful on all of his first days and all of the days thereafter...
LPK
LiveJournal
9.7.2011
But he knows that his grandma works extra to buy him school clothes and shoes and that she treated us to dinner at Friendly's last night even though she couldn't be there. It was her way of rewarding the very productive day we had finishing up the packet sent home by the third grade teachers for over the summer.
So this morning he hopped out of the car wearing his new jeans and shirt and sneakers and brought with him a summer reading log full of Magic Treehouse books and a month's worth of practice in the dry-erase books which we successfully used to improve his handwriting.
He also went there knowing why it's important, even at his age, that he do well in school and with an understanding that he needs to stay focused, all on his own, because I probably won't be in the classroom with him this year.
But as hard as we've worked to instill that sense of personal responsibility, I hope he carries with him an equally strong sense that we are here for him. That even if we're not in the classroom, or even able to see him off on his first day as a third-grader, we're ready to do whatever a family can to help him be successful on all of his first days and all of the days thereafter...
LPK
LiveJournal
9.7.2011
