This week’s Living Arrows is late up because I haven’t been at home this weekend – and so I had no photos of the children to use. Instead, I took photos when we got to school this morning, when the children were relaxing in the car until it was time to go in.
We usually use this time to do school reading – if we haven’t done it the night before – or the children read by themselves or take a little toy to play with. We have to leave just after 8am to get to school and get a parking space and then have fifteen or twenty minutes before the school gates open so it’s nice that the children don’t mind passing this time in the car.
I used to love giving my girls stuff to do but Squidgy gets travel sick if she has anything So we have to try and play I Spy etc instead!
I love that you use the time wisely. So smart to get there early, rather than have a battle to get a space!
It must be nice to sit and relax in the car before the morning rush into school. I’m super lucky to work in the same place and so parking isn’t an issue. We don’t have the time to stop and relax though, it’s all cylinders on full fire until we are in the building!
I’m impressed that you get to school that long before the gates open! It’s lovely that the children are both so into their books, too.
We sometimes sit in the car waiting for the gates to open too. Toby actually is more settled if most of his class are already in the classroom when we get there rather than be in the cloakroom crush so being a bit later is better all round.
So nice that they get to have a bit of chill time after getting themselves up and ready.