School starts for M&M

Yesterday was the first day of middle school for M&M. I can't believe we're at this stage in life already! As I mentioned in a previous post, she got her class schedule about a week and a half ago. While we were looking over the schedule, we noticed that she was put into the wrong math class - she was put in Math 7 when she should have been in Pre-Algebra. So last week I called the school to see if it was a mistake and how we could get it corrected. Her counselor looked up her placement test scores and said that we were correct and that he would need to adjust the schedule to get her in the correct class.

On Monday after dropping off Kitty at Kindergarten, we went to pick up M&M's new schedule at the school. There were tons of people at the school - students and parents walking around the hallways and trying out lockers. We didn't know that they allowed people to do this! So after getting her schedule we went and found M&M's locker and I taught her how to open it (luckily she had memorized the locker number and combination already). Then we walked around the school a little and found a few of her classes. We weren't able to stay too long because I hadn't planned on staying there to do this and MJ was not cooperating. I promised M&M that we would go back the next day and find all of her classes and try the locker again.

So on Tuesday we went back to the school again after dropping Kitty off at kindergarten. I walked with M&M to all of her classes and locker and then I stood off to the side and had her try it on her own. She did get turned around a few times but eventually she figured it all out - and it was good practice for her first day which was Wednesday.

Wednesday was her first day and it was just a short day for 7th graders only. The school is 7-9th grades and they do a short day just for the 7th graders to help ease the transition for them a little bit. It is a fairly big school with lots of students. The 7th graders have to share a locker - and they are tiny!

For the first day there was supposed to be a bus provided for those who got a bus pass in the mail, so M&M walked to the bus stop with plenty of time. Well she ended up waiting for quite a while and still no bus. A parent of one of her friends at the bus stop came by and offered to take a few of the kids to school - apparently the bus driver couldn't get the bus started that morning and ended up being about 30 minutes late. By then everyone had gotten a ride to school. She did get to ride the bus home though and she said that she only got lost once at school. A teacher was out in the hallway and asked if she needed help finding her class. She told him what class it was and it turned out that she was right in front of it and he was her teacher...

Then on day two M&M was getting ready to leave for the bus stop and few minutes early when we heard the bus coming down the street (it passes our house on the way to the bus stop). So M&M quickly grabbed her backpack and ran to the bus stop - just making it there as the last of the kids were getting on the bus. The bus was about 5 minutes early from the schedule we were mailed. What a way to start out the week!! Hopefully next week will go better!