Wednesday, September 22, 2010

The First Day of Preschool

Preparing Lorelei for school was much different than preparing Ashton. Ashton didn't need any pushing, he was excited and ready for school long before school started. Lorelei, on the other hand, had insisted for a good year or so that she was under no circumstances going to school. The night for Open House came and Lorelei was still not so convinced that she wanted to go to school. What finally got her excited was that her preschool does home visits before school starts. By the time Miss. Darci left our house, Lorelei couldn't wait to get to school. She doesn't go until 12:30, so she spends the morning saying, "Can I go now? Can I go now?" She attends on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday. When I picked her up after her first Wednesday she was quite perturbed that she didn't get to go back for 4 whole days. But I am all good with this. Over excitement is much better than the screaming, crying & begging that goes with children who do not want to be left at school.


Before school



So cute in her tiny backpack

Meeting up in the classroom with her cousin Ella

Her very own cubby

Practicing writing her name before class starts





After school I ask her about her day:
M: How was your first day of school?
L: Good. They didn't even give us a snack today. No milk, juice, or even water!
M: Maybe they had to skip snack for the first day. Did everyone follow the rules?
L: A boy had to go to the principal's office. Nolan did. He hit me and he hit Ella and that's why he had to go to the principal's office.
M: You are very sweaty.
L: We played outside for an hour and a half!
M: Tell me about your class.
L: There's a sandbox in our classroom. There's no shovels so we dig with our hands and the very treasure was dirty so we had to use a paint brush to clean the very treasure off.
M: What else did you do?
L: We read books and watched TV. Then we left.
M: Do you like Miss. Darci?
L: I like Miss Darci a lot and I talked to Miss Darci a lot.
M: Did you meet any new friends?
L: I only know that there is Ella. And I did one more thing, what could it be? We were planting flowers and exercising.

Imagine that. All of that and school is only 2 1/2 hours long. Oh, and just for the record, there is no Nolan in the class.

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