Kindergarten Plans

Soooo, this happened on Friday and we got the official notice in the mail on Saturday.

What this means is that Anna is headed to Kindergarten in the fall at the same school Noah attended for two years.  The difference is, it was a smidge out of our control whether or not she could go there. With Noah, the application process was first come, first serve.  After a bit of mob frenzy at application times since then, the acceptance format has been changed to that of a lottery selection.  We were feeling a little on the fence about Union for Anna or keeping it simple and sending her to the school we are actually zoned for instead, so we didn't really mind the big chance of her not getting selected.  I didn't even go to the lottery drawing, I felt so ambivalent about the whole thing. Truth be told, I can see me homeschooling her happily, but Josh is pretty firm that Anna should experience a year or two in a traditional classroom.  Sooo, anyway, we just prayed up the falling of the chips and, in the end, Anna landed at Union.  Can't say that I am as giddy as the next parent might be, but I am glad to at least know that that is one decision made for the coming year and that it is a spot that we are familiar with so it is one less variable to keep track of til July.

Anna plus kindergarten, huh?  That is gonna be a trip!  I better go ahead and start drafting an apology letter for the know-it-all that I fear she will be after all her reading lessons with Josh and all the hours of exposure to Noah's second grade curriculum. Seriously, how many preschoolers do you know that think in terms of skip counting past a hundred, synonyms/antonyms, continent locations, magnet science experiments, water facts, and holy spirit references?  I really, really have no idea how this round of kindergarten is gonna go down.  I'm afraid actually. :}