Kids, Spring 2024

Round 26: Spring 2024

Principal Tatiana Lachance is 41, Pamela Gray is 39, Finn Romilly is 23
Students: Connor Novak, Sophie Gottlieb and Camilla and Lila Sitko are all 11, Josh Royce-Nihill and Elspeth Romilly are both 10, Chris Draper, Lucy Gray and Edward Lachance are all 9, Oliver and Sebastian Gentry are both 8, Anthony and Veronica Moretti are both 7, Noah Gottlieb and Adelaide Sitko are both 6, Mitchell Carmody is 5 and Eddie and Louisa Gentry, Emma Gottlieb, Timothy Lane and Jessica Royce-Nihill are all 4.

Finn Romilly is almost at the end of his second year of teaching and he's feeling quite relieved at the thought. He's been teaching Grades 4-6 this year and he won't be sorry to see the back of Lila Sitko, who's heading off to high school.

He genuinely likes all of his students but he's not sure he quite gets Lila. She seems so rough and well...mean!

Pamela Gray has had her hands full with her pre-school class this year too. Since the pre-school combined with the primary school, Pamela has had very small classes but this year, she has five students.

On the first day, she'd been warned that Timothy was a little shy. She's taught him for almost a year now and she hasn't found that to be true at all.

In fact, it was Timothy who finally brought Eddie out of his shell.

At the beginning of the year, Eddie dawdled every morning on the way to class and was never very interested in interacting with the other children.

He was initially reluctant to even talk with Timothy but Timothy was persistent.

Eddie's twin sister Louisa was similarly reserved but the other girls, Jessica and Emma, were quick to invite her to play with them.

So it's a noisy classroom but mostly a peaceful one. As long as Emma doesn't get in one of her moods, that is.

Emma is the most demanding of Pamela's students this year. She's the baby of her family and is used to being showered with attention.

But Pamela has four other students to attend to, not to mention her former students who come by to visit her at various times during the day.

Next year, Tatiana will have five kindergarteners in her class but for now, she just has Mitchell.

She's enjoying the calm in her classroom while it lasts. She really doesn't have any troublesome students at all this year.

Well, occasionally, Adelaide lifts her head up from her book but that's about it. Tatiana's class are almost eerily well-behaved.

In the art room, Finn is having considerably more trouble, most of it being caused by his little sister, Elspeth.

The other students are busy on their easels...

...but Elspeth couldn't care less about painting. She's determined to do anything apart from the work she's been assigned.

Unfortunately for Finn, Elspeth just doesn't see him as much of an authority figure.

Finn stands firm. Elspeth can either do her art now or she can stay in and do it at lunch time.

And Finn is victorious.

The kids are doing some great work - it's going to look wonderful on the walls when they're done!

The pre-schoolers are first into the cafeteria, just so they can get their lunch before the big kids trample them.

Most of the pre-schoolers anyway. Special snowflake that she is, Emma has decided she's in no rush for lunch so Jessica and Louisa start without her.

Not that she's the only one who's gone a-wandering! At least Emma's not out on the street, like Camilla and Sebastian.

Noah, however, is super-excited for lunch! The food's not even burnt today, so bonus! And look, Emma made her way down after all.

Meanwhile, Adelaide has the attention of the entire lunch table, mostly consisting of kids much older than her. The topic is baseball, which Adelaide considers herself quite the expert on.

Lila is biting her tongue but this is quite irritating to her. Who do they think taught Adelaide everything she knows about baseball anyway?! How about some credit where credit's due?

The teachers are looking forward letting the kids blow off some steam outside once they've all finished eating. Some of them are rather beastly today!

Sadly, that won't be happening today. It is absolutely bucketing with rain outside so the kids will all be inside driving the teachers crazy.

Timothy and Eddie remain inseparable, even at lunch time.

But why would anyone even choose to spend their rainy lunch in another room? The pre-school room is where all the good toys are!

Even some of the kids from Finn's class, like Chris, decide to revisit their pre-K days for the afternoon.

A few of the kids expressed interest in using the music room at lunch. Poor Finn, being the new guy, is assigned the unenviable job of supervising them.

Camilla offers to play a little something for Finn on the violin, insisting that she's really, really good. Finn is a little dubious but what can he really say?

Finn is pleasantly surprised - Camilla actually is really, really good!

If only if Camilla's violin could cancel out Louisa's piano!

Tatiana was hoping her duty in the library would be drama-free but as Elspeth walks in, she starts to doubt whether that will be possible.

It doesn't take long for Elspeth to start an argument with Lucy Gray. Tatiana groans. If Lucy is anything like her big sister Julia, this might not go well.

Tatiana was just about ready to get up and intervene when Lucy defuses the situation on her own. She's apparently much more of a peacemaker than Julia, much to Tatiana's surprise.

When afternoon classes are done, Tatiana is very keen to get everyone out! It's been a long day!

Extra pic:

This didn't really fit in anywhere but here's Emma and Jessica leaving school. I thought it was cute that all the pre-schoolers filed out together (that's Timothy behind them, and the Gentry twins followed close behind).

Notes:

• Title is from Kids by MGMT. I'm planning on using this title for all my primary school entries from here on in.
• I was going to do the Lachance-Weaver update today but the lot I had planned to use for Jonas's arcade was being a pain and I ended up scrapping the whole thing. I have another one ready to go though, so that update should be up tomorrow or the next day. Depends on whether I want to nap after work today!
• Timothy seems to be shy in the same way Mina Lachance is shy, ie., not at all. He talks to absolutely everybody and very boisterously! But I love him and Eddie together. They gravitate towards each other and it's really adorable.
• I love Elspeth. She's always doing something hilarious and I really can't wait to see how she turns out as a teen. Not necessarily appearance-wise - I really want to see her personality develop.
• You might not be able to see it without opening the full size pics but do Sims usually smile and frown like Tatiana is when they read books? It really looked like Tatiana was reacting to Elspeth and Lucy!