First Day of School (2015-2016)

Today was the official first day of school for Cameron and Harrison! While most Belgian schools started yesterday, the boys were able to go to the school for a few hours yesterday to meet their teachers, see their rooms, and meet the other children in their classes. Cameron was very excited to start another school year, especially after seeing his good friends yesterday. Harrison wasn't quite as sure when we left this morning, but he seemed to be fine when we dropped him off.

Cameron will be in the equivalent of a kindergarten class (upper pre-primary) this year. 

Harrison will be in the equivalent of a preschool class (lower pre-primary) this year. 

The boys wanted to ride their bikes to school this morning.

There are seven kids in Cameron's class right now, mostly five year olds, and he has a new teacher this year, Miss Mia (from Ireland). This year he will start to read, count and recognize numbers 1-100 (although he can already do that for the most part), learn more about addition and subtraction (he can also do this pretty well), and follow IPC theme units. 

Harrison will be in a class with 13 children, two and a half to four years old. He will have the same teacher as he had at the end of last year, Miss Inbal (from Israel). He will have IPC theme units and continue to work on literacy and numeracy, more specifically, recognizing the sounds of each letter and working on numbers 1-20. There will also be plenty of playing and fun in his classroom! Harrison will be one of the oldest kids in his class and one of two returning kids this year, so I think he will have a different role at school than he did last year. Last year he was one of the younger kids and more of a follower. We are interested to see if he takes more of a leadership role this year or not. He was not too sure about being in class without Cameron, but I think being on his own will help him develop and grow!

It's usually difficult to get a rundown of the day from the boys, but from what I could gather, they both had a good first day. They had big smiles when I picked them up and are looking forward to going again tomorrow. We are looking forward to a great year!