Life is Hard as a First Grader

Wednesday class lists were posted at the elementary school for the forthcoming school year. Yesterday I took the girls up there to see, hoping to alleviate some of Emma's anxiety about who her teacher is and who will be in her class. She had informed me on Tuesday of this week that there were two kids she really hoped wouldn't be in her class--Elijah and Juli because they were so mean last year. We started going down the list and came to Elijah. She emitted a large sigh and said dejectedly, "I have to have him in my class again??!!" Then, further down the list, we read Juli's name. With that her patience ran out and she screamed a bit schrilly, "AAGGHH! Life is so hard."

Sadly, the only two kids from her kindergarten class are the two that she didn't want to have in her 1st grade class. You would think that with 120 1st graders and 20 from her kindergarten class, she would have better odds of getting a couple of good friends in the class with her, go figure. Thankfully, she hasn't been too preoccupied with the disappointment over classmates since the initial reading of the list. She still has the excitement of meeting her teacher this evening to look forward to.

Speaking of a girl named Skyler that will now be in her class, she remarked, "She was in Olivia's class. Some people think she's funny but she isn't my kind of funny." I asked her what she meant. She said, "they think she's funny but I don't." Hmm. I guess even 6 yr olds have their own developed sense of humor.