The Kids' School

I just wanted to share a few interesting or different things about the kids' school from what we are used to coming from Saratoga Shores. 

The curved structure in the top middle of this picture is the school's outside play area.  This picture is from our upstairs back window,  I took this just to show how close the school is.

This is the front of the school.  This picture was taken on their third day of school after getting out of school.  While we were walking home Kaiya was giggling about something that happened to Mason at recess.  She said he was surrounded by several girls asking to be his girlfriend.  He is so shy, he wouldn't answer them, and kept looking over at Kaiya trying not to smile.  He also came home from school with a note from a girl wanting to be his girlfriend.  We are learning that this is quite common for kids this age.  Morgan said, on one of his first days of school, a kid asked if he had a girlfriend and when he laughingly said no, no one laughed with him.  After he heard about Mason's experience he said that must be why all the girls are being so nice to him.  We are not quite sure how to handle this.

This is a picture of the large play area where they play until the beginning of school and where they have recess.  In this picture, it's a little hard to tell, but the parents line the fence all the way down to the corner and watch until the kids go into school.  I'm not sure if they are worried about their kids, if they are asked to stay, or they just want to see their kids for as long as possible. Instead of ringing a bell to announce the start of  school, they play music and also when it is time to go home. At first we thought it must be their national anthem, but apparently not as we have since heard all genres of music.  

This is another shot of the play area where they have recess.  It is a lot bigger than this picture shows, however there is no play structure or grassy fields to play on, I guess this will force them to be more creative. This happened to be a really cold day, so the kids aren't being as active as usual and some are still eating their snacks.  The entire school goes to recess at the same time, so this area is normally filled with kids playing games such as cops and robbers.  The preschoolers are on the other side of the school and they do have a small playground.

This is a picture of what I get to look at while waiting for the kids to get out of school.  It looks like a painting to me.  I can't wait until our shipment arrives so I can ride my bike out there and see it better. 

 

We had to add this picture of Kamree and the girl in the red coat coming out of school because she is very concerned about this girl.  In fact, the first couple of days I noticed this girl holding Kamree's jacket or arm coming out of school.  Kamree claims the girl is mean to her.  Which Kamree further explained that, the girl "is like Morgan", and is always "bugging" her, meaning the girl won't leave Kamree alone.  Morgan, since Kamree's birth has had an obsession with her, he always wants to hold her or touch her, play with her, sit by her and Kamree often gets very frustrated with him because of it.  We explained that this girl probably just wants to be her friend, Kamree seemed to be okay with that. 

And for all those in Utah enjoying the nice warm sunny weather today, this is what we got instead.