Hannah started pre-school last week. Its a neighborhood/mom run affair with only 6 kids. We moms take turns teaching for a week at a time (2 days a week only). Hannah was so excited to start "school" just like Garrett. Each week focuses on a certain letter, number, shape & color among other things. Above is Hannah's painting on her first day. If you look closely, you can see they worked on the letter "A".
When Garrett came home from school that night, he asked Hannah what she did at pre-school. She told him they learned about letters, sang ABC's, learned about numbers, snipping (cutting), and did painting. Garrett's immediate response was, "Hey! No fair! We don't get to paint at all this year!" And this is probably true. There were no paints in his school supplies. Apparently there is no painting in the 3rd grade. I'm sure there will be lots of other fun things to do.
I really never thought I'd put my kids in pre-school. Garrett didn't go and he has done fine in school. I feel a little bad because Hannah will miss the school deadline by 7 days. I'm secretly a little worried that she'll be more than ready to go and by the time she does go to school, she'll be bored. I guess we'll just see what happens. For now, she is loving pre-school, loving the activities and the social fun. I am loving the 2 hrs a day with only Ryan and he usually naps during that time! Yes, preschool is cool!
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Are you doing Joy School?? We just started it with Sophie last week and she loves it, too. (And Ivy's finally getting alone time with mom for the first time in her life :))
Natalie- Hannah's pre-school isn't exactly joy school but the concepts are pretty much the same. We are tailoring our teaching to line up with the state and district curriculum (ie; D'neilian handwriting is what our district teaches). That way hopefully, it will be an easier transition to school if that is how they were taught to do things in the beginning. Sounds rigid but its real low key and they are having fun! Glad to hear Sophie is enjoying it as well. Yay for Ivy to have some mom-to-herself time!
Sounds like fun!!!
Holy Cow! Can Garrett really be 8? Where did that time go??!
So cute!!! Hey, don't worry too much about her being bored during school next year. Mazzy missed the deadline by a week also and she was MORE than ready to start, but she absolutely loved Kindergarten once she started, and I think it's nice when there older because they can handle it a little better also.
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