Stahlke Adoption

1st Grade

First grade differs from kindergarten in several ways. Naps have gone by the board, and the first-grade children are now in an upstairs classroom.

Academically, the kindergarten paradigm is to learn one letter of the alphabet per week. We found this to be true both in English school and Ukrainian school. Unfortunately for David and Kola, they learned the English and Cyrillic alphabets at the same time. That means, for example, that letters like "B" and "H" sound like "V" and "N" in Ukrainian. So far, first grade is focused on reading and math. For the first time, Kola is coming home with written homework sheets to do. He is very proud of them, for now he has work to do like the big kids.

The big kids wish they didn't have so much of that work!

posted by Stahlkes @ 4:29 PM