Her Highness the Most Excellent Sophia started Kindergarten yesterday. Somebody tell me how a baby I just brought home from the hospital can possibly be starting Kindergarten?
I looked at the list of stuff she’s supposed to know for Kindergarten. She was well past that level about 2 years ago. I looked at the list of the stuff she’s supposed to learn this year and, well, let’s see…she does not in fact know how to tell time on an analog clock yet. So we have that to look forward to.
We walk to school in the late morning. (I signed her up for the “afternoon” kindergarten because I don’t want to have to have her out the door by 7:45am any earlier than I have to, which turns out to be 1st grade.) So far she’s not pleased at the walk—”Mommy, I get tired!” It’s 6/10 of a mile each way. I think she’ll adapt. Also, extra exercise for me.
She’s been very excited about the whole Kindergarten thing for weeks, if not months. Now that it’s started she’s a little unsure about the whole thing—while we’ve run into preschool friends at the school, none of them are in her class. She’s outgoing, though: I don’t sense that she’ll have much trouble making friends. Which, let’s face it, is what this is all about, as far as I’m concerned.
(Pssst: Can someone please tell me how to put some space between the picture up there and the text next to it? I’ve been playing with the style sheets and html for 30 minutes now and seeing no improvement. Just a little space from the text, that’s all I want!)
Kindergarten is not much of an intellectual exercise…its most important aspect is to introduce kids to the concepts of sitting in one spot until allowed to get up, sharing crayons and a bathroom, and standing in line. Which can be valuable life skills, after all! And I identify with you, Mom; I just dropped my ‘newborn’ off at a college on the other side of the country. I suspect he’ll be working on some of the same skills there!
In the image tag, put hspace=”10″ or 20 or whatever you want.
I know the feeling – our little boy just turned seven last week and it was a shock. Add that to the fact that one of our friends brought us a copy of a video that they’d made back when we lived in the yurt and Paul was almost two. It can’t have been five years.
I definitely appreciate the lower cost of homeschooling – while not a primary motivator it is a great side effect.
As for the image – I’m not much of a html coder and haven’t done much since about the year 2001 (so I’m hopelessly dated). Anyway – back in those days I’d probably put the image in a table and specify cellpadding/cellspacing as needed. Alternately I suppose you could increase the “canvas size” of the image and surround it by a several pixel wide transparent bit. But that only would work well with PNGs which aren’t supported by older browsers.
Duh, I see you tried that.
Maybe putting in something like:
style=”margin-right: 20px;” in the img tag?
Love her haircut!
Congrats on getting her in afternoons.
Heh. When I went to sign her up for Kindergarten (bringing the requisite forms — 3? 4? — to prove that we actually live in this burg), I asked the clerk if I could request morning or afternoon.
She said, “You can request one or the other, but we don’t make the final decision until the week before school starts.”
“Okay. Put me down for afternoon.”
“Ah.” Pause. “I’m pretty sure you’ll get your request.”
Apparently *everyone* asks for mornings. I guess I can kind of understand why, but at the moment…enh.
You have this code fragment in styles-site.css:
img {
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
}
which overrides (I believe) the hspace= and vspace= attributes on the specific tag. This fragment applies to all graphics on the page, so you don’t want to futz with it.
Add a fragment to your .css file with a class selector, something like this:
.photo {
margin-top: 5px;
margin-bottom: 5px;
margin-left: 15px;
margin-right: 15px;
}
Then add a class attribute to your image tag to tell the browser to apply this style:
<img alt=”fiakind.jpg”
src=”http://www.nobody-knows-anything.com/PIx/fiakind.jpg”
width=”249″ height=”333″ class=”photo”
align=”left” />
AHA! You totally rock! (I guess you could tell by my .css file that I’d been fooling with it without much success.) It looks great, thank you!
Kindergarten IS about learning how to sit still and play cooperatively at recess. Although nowadays it seems to be imperative that you learn how to read as well, which can be good or bad depending on whether or not you’re actually ready.
And it does go really really fast. My newborn just started 10th grade. Sophia’s little baby arms look really sweet to me — both my kids are now taller than I am.