Two Weeks Into Kindergarten

Hannah has been going to kindergarten for 2 full weeks now. I am surprised at how tired she seems to be from only 2 3/4 hours (preschool was 4 hours a day 3 days a week last year), but otherwise things are great. She loves her teacher and comes home every day with a good note. Their school uses blocks and stickers simaltaneously. Everyone starts off with 5 blocks and there is the opportunity to lose or earn more. If you come home with a green note, that means you had a good day and you kept all 5 blocks. If you come home with a blue note, it means you had a great day you earned extra blocks. You get a sticker with each of these notes. There are different colors and consequences for losing blocks.

Hannah has had 6 green notes and 4 blue notes. She got to pick candy from the Candy Box twice now (5 green/blue notes gets you a piece of candy) and is halfway to getting a prize from the Best Behavior box (that takes 20 green/blue notes) which I assume is a McDonald's toy or something of the like. She is enjoying school and comes home to tell me all about how much she likes her class and how her friends (Jayde and Analyese) on the bus ask her to sit with them and share their "lipstick" (lip gloss in a little tub) with her. She told me she was going to marry Jack (her friend from playgroup when she was little) because he was sweet and cute - he helped her when she was sad on the playground once. She plays with friends at recess (Lilly mostly) and she constantly tells me how she tries very hard to do the right thing. She comes home with "Nice!" and "Good Job!" and smiley faces all over her papers. We are so proud that she is doing so well!

Here are a few pictures:

Hannah has made leaps and bounds with her coloring. She is coloring inside the line so well now. Here she is with her first coloring project and showing us her blue note for the day:

Hannah wanted a place to put her good notes, so we decided to get a little artsy with her shoebox. I used wrapping paper to wrap the entire thing and wrote "Hannah's Kindergarten Box" on it. She decorated it by cutting out extra princesses from the leftover paper and taping them on. She also drew Lacey (our kitty who passed in Jan) on the top:

This is how she decorated the inside. She did not ask for help on how to write the names. You can see her blue and green notes:

This is how she decorated the bottom. She drew our family standing in the grass with the sun and clouds. She also included grandparents, although she didn't say which ones. I love that everyone in her pictures always looks happy:

My sweet girls:

It's been a good first 2 weeks!