Jaxon’s Kindergarten Class Photo
In Sweden, to start first grade a child is generally expected to be 7 years old by January 1 of that school year. Parents with children that just make the cut-off seem as often as not to wait a year to enroll their children. So even though Jaxon went to kindergarten on Cape Cod last year, he will only be 6½ years old on the 1st of January 2009, and the bi-lingual school we wanted him to attend insisted he join the kindergarten class.
When we asked Jaxon about attending kindergarten again, he wasn’t too happy at first. But when we told him about kindergarten here – how much playtime they have and the fun things they do, he reconsidered. His comment was “Playing is what I do best!”. The academic aspect of kindergarten has been much less intense here compared to Cape Cod, but adjusting to a new primary language and new friends has kept Jax plenty busy.
Below is his class photo from this year. While he is the tallest in the class, he is far from the oldest.
I hope to eventually receive and post Naomi’s class photo, but it seems we lost the requisite forms required to appease the multiple layers of bureaucracy necessary to receive our copy of the photo.
my photo &photos &sweden posted by: dan @ 20 Dec 2008 16:42