M&M's first day of 8th grade

Monday, August 29th, 2011

M&M had a whole month after the other kids had started school before she had to head back. It was nice having her around to help out with the two little girls at home. The day that the class schedules were available online, M&M and her friends were calling each other to find out what classes they have together. Luckily M&M has quite a few classes with several of her friends so she was excited to find that out. We went to school a couple of days ahead of time so that she could find her classes and find and try out her locker. This year she is taking Spanish 1, Keyboarding, Honors U.S. History, Honors Language Arts, Honors Earth Science, Honors Algebra and Advanced Band. Keyboarding is the only 1/2 year class and she will have Gym the second 1/2 of the year. I think this year will definitely be a test on how well she is able to manage her time! We'll also have to see if she can maintain her 4.0 GPA from last year.

The one unfortunate thing about this year so far is that as of right now M&M is not able to ride the bus to and from school. We are technically about 3 houses from the cutoff for busing. Last year they gave out bus passes to those within the busing area and then they gave out bus passes to those that live closest to the cutoff until the bus was full. They decided this year that they would make the students who want bus passes to fill out an application for one because there were many last year that were given out to students that never used them. They also decided that they would give students the first 3 weeks of school to apply for a bus pass and then they will go through the applications and give out bus passes to those that applied, starting with those that live the farthest from the school. We are pretty confident that M&M will be given a bus pass since we are so close to the cutoff and one of the moms of a student that rides the bus said that there are about 15 kids riding the bus so far. Luckily we were able to work out a carpool with some neighbors that only has us driving the kids to school 2 times a week and never having to pickup! And so far DH has been able to drop the kids off on his way to work so it has been very nice for us! Hopefully we will find out in the next week if M&M will be able to ride the bus or not for the rest of the school year. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!