First day of school

It was the kids first day of school on Monday, the 31st. Fortunately, they were already familiar with the school as they attended camp there this summer. They did awesome considering it was their 3rd school, in 3 years, in 3 different countries!

Sam is in 1st grade. He has 16 kids in his class and a seemingly wonderful, experienced teacher.

Sydney is in 2nd grade now. Her class is the largest in the school with 24 kids. She has two teachers--one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

Their core classes--reading, writing, math--are taught in English. They have a spanish class every day. And their music class and PE are also taught in Spanish. They are both starting to pick up a little spanish and repeat things they've heard even if they don't understand what they are saying. But it is a challenge for them--it seems their first question when we are going to do anything new, or meet someone new is..."Do they speak spanish or english?"

Heather and Mike had their first day of school today. But sorry--no pictures with our backpacks for you =)