When one kid is out of the woods - the other one goes in...

I am a bit worried about Mendel's integration at school.
She only seems to play with Louise (a friend in 2nd KG) and not with any of her classmates.

I brought this up with her teacher but she seems to think everything is going well, but I hear a different story from Mendel herself (the kids in her class are not nice to her and she never seems to play with anyone from her class).

So I made an appointment with the zorgcoordinator, who was going to observe Mendel for a while.

My meeting with her got postponed when Mendel's teacher got sick, but then out of the blue she did ask me to come in and have a conversation after all(with the teacher still being sick).
The reason she wanted to see me asap was that they ran into something quite unusual.

When they asked every child in 3rd KG, to list the names of friends they play with from their class, every child can name a few friends, except Mendel.
This was a surprise to the school staff, but they were even more surprised (or shocked) that nobody in her class had mentioned her name either.
(There was 1 boy in the other 3rd KG that had mentioned her name, but he has a little crush on her - which she returns).

So - here we are - we know something isn't right. But what?
We are now exploring different theories. Is it Mendel that is very picky when it comes to making friends.
Or is she doing something that really puts other kids off.

I am going to organize more playdates for her, and will see whether the issue gets resolved.

Cross your fingers...

First snow in 2009

 
 

On the first day of school and work in 2009 it snows!

Elias got up this morning at 7am, stood by our bed and announced:"I have good and bad news. The good news is that it snowed and everything is white outside, and the bad news is that the roads will be slippery.".

Wim was working from home anyway, but after the slipping escapades last time around, it's safer if I work from home as well.

Too bad the kids have to go to school but since it is still snowing right now, I hope it will still be a big pack tonight so we can have a snow fight :-)