How it is set up at the little man's school is he goes to the SLC room. And then he can earn time in his "classroom" with a group of 20 other first graders. If he earned outside recess or lunch it would be with that class. So it is considered to be his class even though he has never been in it or met any other kids.
Periodically the first grade teacher sends out emails with announcements for the parents of the class. I get them because he is part of that class. So his "class" has a field trip coming up to the zoo. That is so nice and so much fun. It doesn't include my little man. So the email is like a reminder of another thing he doesn't get to do. Now since he doesn't know what goes on in that classroom he isn't feeling the lack of this fun stuff. And I have to remind myself of that. But it truly breaks my heart.
Then I have to take an emotional step back and remember that we are making a change and this is one of the reasons why. And we can do a field trip every day if we want to. Well within reason. Homeschooling does mean no extra income. But things can be planned and luckily there are a lot of free and low cost adventures to be had. And I am a whiz at finding them.
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