Three Friends

The 5/6/7 year olds had their athletics at school this morning. Jack did well and came 3rd in the sprint, he is the shortest and the youngest of his class   He also won the discus.. throwing a plastic hoop thing  His long jump and high jump were rubbish as he would not take off his school sun hat and it was too big and kept falling off.   Bonnie said it was NOT his hat !!! The sprints were at 11:30 am and the skies opened up and we all got drenched.  Absolutely soaked and the rain drops were so BIG.  Had to drive back here soaking wet !

I looked at FB first before I came here and I wondered what exactly was going on but now I see.  I didn't realize that Jack is the youngest in his class.  He's one of the top students though so being young hasn't hurt him at all.  I can't get the emoticons to work, I mean the big bunch of them, not the row at the top here.  Can you girls?

Jack's sun hat was too big so he had obviously picked up some other boy's hat !!! It was over his eyes !!!  The sun is very decieving in NZ and you do get burned very quickly.   But then it poured down!!!!!! Jack is young in the class because his birthday is in December 18th.  They start school here in January when they are 5 years old. So he was only JUST 5.
My garden is doing well and the corn is as high as an elephants eye......... well it is Cash's corn and I had to trim the pineapple sage and the Lemon Balm is just going mad ! I need a bigger garden !

OIC now about the hat!!  Our school business is different.  If a child is 5 by September 15th then they can start school so Breck is old for her class because her birthday is November 8th.  So are she and Jack in the same grade?  Breck is in lst grade which is the next grade after Kindergarten here.
This is Breck's second year of "real" school.  She went to preschool two years before "real" school.   Okay, I tried the emoticons, the "bunch" of them but it doesn't show up here, just says (emoji3) so we shall see if it shows up as a face after I post this.

This is Jack's 2nd year in school.   He did 1 year in Kindergarten.... aged 4 here in Helensville,  but did 1 year part time in Perth before that.  Real School here starts on your 5th birthday  but Jack's was during the Christmas holidays so he started January 2018. It will be the same with Cash who is 5 on 15th December.  He will start real school next January .. 2020. Cash has had 3 years of Kindergarten !
In UK we start school in September like you do. Northern hemisphere. 

Yes Darien NZ does have the highest rate of skin cancer due to the depleted ozone layer over the islands !  I will take some garden photos tomorrow IF it does not continue raining !!!!

No, we don't have Pre-school where your child HAS to attend.  But if you pay you can send your child to Kindy or play school  ( call it pre-school )  ....... BUT you have to pay.  Parents use it if they work normally. Cash started Montessori Kindy when they first moved here.  Montessori is a bit more High Class than normal Kindy    BUT you do pay more ! Maybe Cash did not have a full 3 years Montessori but close. Greta is now 2years old  and goes 2 days a week 9-3.
I think Cash is catching up to Jack in his own way but Cash is going to be a worker .. not so much a thinker although he is getting bossy !    As for Greta.... she reminds us of Anneliese. Quick, talkative ( I cannot understand all she says but she knows what she is talking about  ) and all action.   

It's the same as here, we have Preschool but the parents or someone has to pay for the child to go there.  This is different than daycare where the parents pay to leave their child all day.  Our preschool is half a day.  Our daycare places don't teach them anything, oh they might a little, but it's not a structured learning place.  Breck went to preschool when she was 3 and 4 and while she did that she was at daycare also because her parents weren't home.   Someone had to transport Breck from daycare to preschool.  I think that Brant and another parent took turns doing that.  Luckily Brant can schedule his work so he can be away throughout the day if needs be.  Joe also does lots of this transporting with all 3 kids who are involved in various activities
I guess your three little kids are all different in one way or the other which is normal and the way it is in most families.
Okay, I've answered Moira's post and there is also your post Darien.  That's a difference from the old board where each person's comments were in separate posts.  Well anyway, I have only ONE grandchild to watch but she is a blessing for sure. 

I too was on call for emergencies for my grandkids.

Yes, that's a major difference on this board, the posts are general rather than done under the person who posted. I suppose we will just have to get used to it