Clorox Wipes and Online Lunch Money!!!!

What is this world coming to????

I think it is so interesting how much school has changed since I was attending! Ok ok...I am 10 years out of high school this coming spring so HOW could I expect things to stay the same? The year was 1985 when I started kindergarten when I was 4....ummm...now I feel old!!! That is 22 years ago!!! WOW!

The changes that I am really referring to are...

-school supply lists now include things such as dry erase markers, clorox wipes, ziploc bags, shoe boxes and of course the regular things...like FOUR glue sticks per child and FOUR boxes of eight crayons per child! Ummmm...this is where having twins first is frustrating. You just don't get "eased" into these types of things!

-dress codes for elementary school students. Since when does it have to be printed that elementary students need to be covered from the "shoulder to mid thigh" YIKES!!!!

-online payment of lunch money! This one I LOVE!!!! There is actually a website for our district so I don't have to send lunch money and *hope* that it gets to the right place.

-three choices of lunch food entrees. The girls LOVE this one too! They get to choose what they would like and you always get the choice of a "pb&j uncrustable and trix yogurt". There is still the usual "tuesday pizza day" and other choices that I would have seen when I was in school but I just love the fact that they are trying to give choices and that the choices are healthy options.

Another thing that I realized last year is that the amount of volunteer parents has increased since I was in school. In Kiara's class last year they had a parent volunteer EVERY DAY! That was so great! Not only was it great to get the opportunity to be in the classroom but to know that there were two sets of eyes and ears was more reassuring when I worried about teacher/student time.

This year kellyn has 16 students in her class and kiara has 17. THAT IS AWESOME!!!! I am so glad! I am not sure that the other students in the district are that lucky but for the moment...those are the numbers!

So they start tomorrow. I am excited for them to begin structured learning again. We did LOTS of learning this summer but I always worry that I am just not enough.