School – Page 4 – M. Sullivan Photography

Sophia’s first day of school was yesterday. Her school started a day later than the rest of the district as they are in a temporary building for the year while her elementary school is being renovated. Classes were set up in a former middle school. We were a bit apprehensive about the change in venue, but were impressed during open house with how well the school looked. Many things were done to make the environment more welcoming to young kids including colorful signs to lead the kids to their classrooms, lunch room, library and other rooms in the building. Sophia’s teacher is new to the school this year. We found out that she actually lives just a block from our house. We are looking forward to a great year for Sophia.

Sebastian begins middle school on Monday. He will be going to a newly renovated school that was formerly a high school We attended the open house on Thursday and were all a bit overwhelmed with the size of the school, but became more comfortable with the building as we toured and found all of Sebastian’s classrooms and met his teachers. I will likely only get one or two photos of him on his first day. I’m sure I will have to sneak the pictures with my iPhone instead of pulling out my SLR. He is officially too cool for school and having his mom taking pictures of him is definitely not cool.

Here are some previous “First Days”

2011 School Year

2010 School Year

2009 School Year

A quick recap of the past few weeks.

Mike chaperoned Sophia’s school field trip to the Lake Superior Zoo.

We went to the Sullivan cabin over Memorial Day weekend. The weather was cool and somewhat rainy, but that didn’t stop Sebastian from christening the swim season by jumping in the lake. With the air temperature in the low 60’s and the water temperature even lower, he didn’t stay in the water long.

Sebastian spent a day in the Twin Cities for his class field trip. They visited the Children’s Museum and History Center. He was very excited to enjoy the day riding in style. They took coach buses instead of school buses. It may have been the highlight of the day. No pictures, he opted not to take a camera with. The boy travels light.

Sophia finished the school year with a picnic at Chester Park. The kids played, hiked and enjoyed picnic foods for lunch. I stopped by for a bit to check out the fun.

I celebrated my birthday at the beginning of June. Mike and I took the day off from work and enjoyed most of the day outside on the deck. We did have to do a couple of errands in the morning. I renewed my driver’s license – nothing like waiting until the last minute. We also had to go to the grocery store. Mike informed me that for his birthday, he doesn’t want to spend time doing either of those things.

Sebastian’s class had root beer floats to finish off the school year. They also spent time signing each other’s yearbooks.

Sebastian headed to the bus stop for his last day of elementary school. He barely stopped for me to take a picture. He will be going to the new middle school in the fall.