Junior Kindergarten at Kylee’s first school was all play, and this is how it should be. Unfortunately, we all have to grow, not just in height and weight, but also into responsibilities, and one of the responsibilities of school as we pass through the stages is to learn.
Senior Kindergarten has come as a bit of a shock. Apart from playing, there is now a definite element of learning involved, and not just in the English language. Of course, when shocked, we all tend to recoil somewhat, and Kylee has done this too.
While she was generally more than happy to go to school, the move to French Immersion has not quite gone the way that she had imagined. Her teacher is a little more ‘fierce’ than the predecessor, but I suspect that much of it has to do with a class population some three times larger.
As I pass the school buses in the school parking lot, the noise being generated from within gives me an inkling of what Kylee’s teacher is up against when trying to control a bunch of five year olds.
Needless to say, Kylee is making progress and pretty much always gets a ‘bravo’, the French for awesome, from her teacher.
I can’t say that I was in agreement with Kylee attending French Immersion because none of her family are even close to being able to converse in French beyond ‘hello, how are you’, and the best way to be conversant in French or any other language is to be able to converse on a regular basis.
However, I am really hoping that Kylee stays at the present school, not because I want her to suffer, and not because I want her to learn French. She has to learn, just as we all did, that we don’t always get what we want, and that success which comes despite the odds is a very valuable lesson indeed.
So, other than teething issues, Kylee is doing well.
Bravo.. 
