Middle Schooler

I really can't believe I have (another) middle schooler already. I seems like just yesterday that Ben was the little (well, not so little) 10 pounder in the nursery window! But, he is growing up and starting sixth grade a week from Monday. He is very excited. I think I may have already mentioned, but a friend of ours is a teacher at his school and even though we had missed the deadline by a good bit, helped us get him into the single gender program. Part of this included a camp all of last week. One day was "Camp Hornet" and single gender orientation to get the students acclimated to the school. The other four days were through USC for rising middle school students. They learned study skills, team building and more. One thing they had to do was read one of three books. Ben borrowed my Kindle to read Feathers by Jaqueline Woodson. Then, in groups, they did projects. On Friday the parents were invited for a snack lunch and presentations. Ben and his group (only one other was there that day) did a great job! Afterwards, the program director took them to their upcoming English class to display. He hasn't even started school and already completed his first project!

Now, we are waiting on his schedule to be sent out next week to find out all of his classes!

He can't wait!!