The Kids

The rush to prepare for the upcoming school year has begun.  Ugh.  Kim and I have been working diligently on making sure all our materials are up to date and tidy on the KAIT website.  So far, we’re about halfway through the CCNA Discovery 1 materials, which means we have to really get a move on because we have to get the ITE materials up and ready as well.  Only 2 more weeks!  Oi.

Thank goodness I’m not the only one though.  I’ve been hearing rumblings throughout the teaching community about getting ready.  My friend Marnie who teaches in Saskatoon has just tweeted that she’s thinking about getting started, and my cousin who is a speech pathologist (her clientele is mainly elementary students) is preparing to gear up for the new year as well.  So, I am not alone in my prep time now.

But with the preparation for my school year, I must also begin preparing for my children’s new school year.  And they will be attending a new school this year to boot.  I have enrolled them in the school in town instead of re-enrolling them at the reserve school.  It wasn’t an easy decision for me, not in the least.  Over the past 6 year or so (my daughter has attended the school since Nursery), I have done my best to support the community school, even going so far as working there.  But I feel the kids have outgrown the school.

For the most part, the school’s focus for extra-curricular activities is mainly on sports, and as much as I love my kids, they aren’t athletes.  :)  My daughter is a scientist at heart, curious to the bone.  My nephew, while crazy active, is also a little scientist as well.  My daughter is determined to work for NASA some day (I’m trying to convince her to work for the CSA), and my nephew insists he’s going to be a paleontologist.  lol

We’ll see how it works out for them.  I’m hoping that they do well.  It isn’t the school’s fault in the least, I love my community, but like I said, the kids have outgrown it.  <3

And as I’ve always said, I don’t plan on leaving my community any time soon.  My kids don’t want to leave either.  Hell, I have a difficult enough time trying to get them to leave the house for groceries, nevermind moving out of the community.  lol  This is our home.  Always will be.