Schools

Tomorrow the kids start school. Both are a little nervous. Grace will
be attending 3rd Grade at a Bilingual Primary School where they teach in
English about 7 hours a week. Given that she's in school 4 hours or less
a day, it's almost half the time. Her teacher is super nice; she took
Grace by the hand and took her up to her room to show her around. Grace
will be the only native English speaker in her class, but there is a
chance that a girl from England may be joining the class, too.

Henry will be going to a Montessori Kindergarten that is all in German.
He'll be in school about 4 hours a day. Henry and I were pretty nervous
about it until we got a chance to visit the school. They have lots of
very fun educational toys throughout the room. Friday we found out
Henry needs shoes for PE. The shoes look like ballet shoes on top and
have a rubber sole. After the kids and I made an unsuccessful attempt to
find them, Russ was able to reach a local contact who told him the name
(sounds like Gymnastics Pat-shun, I didn't get the spelling) and then we
could ask for them and eventually found them. Grace liked them so much
that she wanted them, too. She needs shoes for PE also but apparently
this style is common for little kids because they are easy to get on and
off.

Hopefully we've got all our supplies correctly interpreted and purchased
for tomorrow!

Sue