Back to School

It is back to school time here in Pasadena and Addison has returned to Hamilton for another year of adventure in education.  She is a big fourth grader now and everything is different!  She now gets to play on the upperschool yard, her class has 35 students instead of 20, the fourth grade teachers rotate subjects so she has to move from class to class, and she has a planner!   To top it all off she also has two new skinned knees to get the ball rolling. (She fell off a friends scooter after school - there were water works.)

Her homeroom teacher this year is Ms. Wielgosz (pronounced WELL - gosh!)  Most of her friends are in her class again.  I sense several phone calls on the horizon concerning talking and note passing during class.  

We have signed up for an after school Spanish class that begins in a few weeks.  It is through Berlitz which emphasizes language immersion.  We'll see how she does.  Speaking of languages, we are still working on our Latin and can now construct sentences like:  poetae sunt sed tabulas numquam portant.  (Translation:  They are poets, but they never carry writing tablets.)  I tell you, this is all very helpful - or at least it will be when one day we meet tablet carrying poets who speak latin?