And we survived the first day of school! They were nervous about the Spanish classroom. To take their mind of off school we started the day with a trip to the pool at 6 AM. Classroom time is from 8 am till 2 pm.

It was a little different then we envisioned. Its a two room school with organic gardens and a chicken coup. Leo goes to the older class, where he is the youngest of 5 kids and the ages range from 6-8. Zosia goes to young Kindergarten where the age ranges from 3-5. There are 2 teachers for both classrooms, 1 English and 1 Spanish plus one helper for the younger class. For example Leo has a Spanish teacher in the morning from 8 to 11 am, she teaches language arts, music and movement classes. This morning she started the day by teaching the kids how to shoot a bow and arrow. Then from 12 to 2 he has English teacher for math, social studies and some writing. Yesterday he worked on multiplication tables and 4 states of matter.  The school acts as a branch of another bigger school (Tree of Life) where kids can take classes like Robotics or anything they have a strong interest in that our school doesn't offer.  Zosia's class is the other way around she starts with English and ends day with Spanish and she is one of the older kids in the class. She spends the afternoon in Leo classes writing letters. 

I was so happy about the organic wholesome meals that the school prepares but my kids didn't eat anything. The menu yesterday had papaya and granola for a morning snack (Zosia had some granola), and for lunch they had rice, black beans, organic chicken, hard boiled eggs and green beans, not bad right? I can only hope that changes soon since I don't want to make PBJ sandwiches here. 

Overall we survived, kids were super tired but walked to school happily this morning. I have to admit spying on them few times to see how they are doing but that's my problem not theirs :)