A New School - a 7 year old perspective

Starting at a new school in the Virgin Islands is different than Connecticut.

It has been hard. There is not that many people in my school - only 11 in my class - and it is hard to get to know friends. To have a playdate with someone in my class I had to give him a post-it note and wait days for them to text my parents! We don't get as much recess and one person is not nice - she pretends to sleep during school, but wakes up at recess. I miss my friends in Connecticut a lot - I have Facetimed with them 2 times and I hope to do more.

It has been fun. I have a really nice teacher. We only do Math once a week (sometimes,

two), but it is fun because we have big Math books and it has really cool stuff and we use

This is counting to 50 with my post-it note friend

blocks and spy glasses to count. We get to do iPads at the end of the day for free-time. We will get to use a science kit, but we haven't used it yet. Two days ago we planted beanstalks for our classroom and the teacher said I could take home the soil for my home garden, but I forgot it at school. Today we are off school because there was gonna be a hurricane, but it moved north, so we have a free day off.

I look forward to the weekends, where I play with my next door neighbor (we have built a path and that is where the garden is). I also like to pet donkeys on the beach!