Emmy’s first day of school was easy.  As parents, we worry more about the children and how they will adjust with such a move.  Emmy came home from her first day of school to announce she loved her new teacher, her new school and has new friends.  Ok, if life could be so simple as it is for a six year old.

The best part of Emmy’s new school is the number of children in her class is almost half of her class in Hong Kong.  With fewer children, the classroom has such freedom of moving about the room and visiting with friends.  The atmosphere in her class is so relaxed and enjoyable.

Emersyn’s teacher is Ms Poppell, with a name like that how can she not be lovely. At Concordia, the classes are mixed with grade 1 and grade 2. The students will have the same teacher for two years – Emmy is excited about this as she only has wonderful things to say about Ms Poppell.

Emersyn will ride the school bus to school. It is about a 20 minute – 30 minute ride, depending on traffic. After the long ride in Hong Kong off island, this will seem short. We put her on the bus the first day of school so she could establish a friend and a place to sit. We had been to new student orientation at the school and she knew her class room was right off the bus.

Emersyn’s backpack is almost as big as she is!

Eleri was not too happy that she didn’t get to go to school today. It is tough being the little sister.

Emmy continues to remain busy with after school activities.  She has settled on violin lessons, ice skating lessons, Brownies and soccer for this semester.  Maybe it is really School Daze!