Amanda's New School

Today is Amanda's first day of second grade*. Perfect time to share some pictures from back to school night at her school! First off, we have Amanda sitting not just on a bus, but on the very same bus that will be taking her to and from her new school. (Don't be fooled by her expression; she is actually VERY excited about school and has had a very long past few days waiting for it.)

Here's Amanda in the computer corner of her new classroom. Mom gets a kick out of how this school, Amanda's old school, and our old library are all filled with Macs just like Mom's. The rest of Amanda's classroom is filled with clusters of desks, each one well-stocked with school supplies. There's also a bit of a Snoopy theme going on.

The school playground is much like other playgrounds, aside from being situated in sight of a church building on either side (same denomination) and having this unique play structure:

Here's Amanda victorious, conqueror of the whatever-it-is. Today the playground, tomorrow the world!

*For those of you who may not have been following Amanda's school saga, Amanda is skipping a grade. She loved kindergarten last year, but as one of our Ohio library's top 100 summer readers and an Ohio-certified math whiz, her first grade experience consisted of testing first in Ohio and then again here in Utah. Both evaluators concluded she has no business being in first grade; she'd "be bored out of her mind."