First Grade

Holly started the first grade in 1996. This was a big deal school year, because she did Kindergarten at a private school, the same day care she had been attending for a year or so prior. First grade was the official start of full school days and a classroom/teacher we didn't know!

Being the progressive parents that we liked to think we were, we enrolled in a program called "Open Classroom.". It focused on whole-child learning and required parent involvement. It looked like a good program for my UBER-shy daughter, so we were very happy when she was accepted.

Look at that shy little smile in the picture!  Schnoogs (then still small enough to be Schnoogie) was so nervous about her first day that I had to take her to the classroom to meet her teacher (Miss Kylie, a first-year teacher straight out of grad school who may have been just as nervous) the day before school started.

Holly spent the entire time that we visited with Miss Kylie glued to my leg and semi-buried into my backside, she might have even cried a little bit.

We seem to have overcome the shyness issue over the last 13 years!