Alex’s 1st Day of Preschool!

Tuesday, September 2nd, was Alex’s very first day of preschool! Thank goodness he had already attended summer camp at his preschool. It was nice to not have any jitters! (I only had a few tears when I drove away – no sobs this time!) He was excited to go, practically jumped out of the car, and had lots of fun. I think he was relieved after orientation to see kids who are all his age. Many of the kids from summer camp were a year or two older and probably already knew each other. The kids in Alex’s class are all in their first year of preschool (at least their first year at Playwise). He’s even already told me he has friends. Yay!

Here’s the email we received from Miss Barrie Tuesday afternoon. She does this after every class … isn’t that awesome?

We're off to a great start this year!! Our little ones had a terrific time this morning and were all smiles!  Some things we did together:

• Picked vegetables from our garden and counted to make sure we had enough for everyone to take one home.  (Good one-to-one counting practice)

• Began our 'friendship circle' this morning on the patio by singing 'Round and Around' name game to introduce ourselves.

• Enjoyed listening to 4 friends talk about themselves while showing their adorable homework cut-outs!

• Acted out the characters in the big book called Do You Want to be my Friend? (some characters were: horse, peacock, giraffe, lion, kangaroo, etc.)

• Met in the library for language arts and read, sang, and danced to The Rules Rap.  Fun way to introduce our rules and routines!

• After snack, we played in our centers inside while I called a few children at a time to tell me their colors that they know, point to different colors, name their favorite, and then I painted their hands to create a little poster (we will finish on Thursday and take home then).

• At the end of the day, we read How Do Dinosaurs Go to School for storytime and talked about the naughty dino in the story and how he learned the rules in his classroom.

• We sang our goodbye song and played in the water table until dismissal (whew, it was hot outside!)

 

On the way to preschool with a smoothie and Cheerios.

So excited to go play on the playground!

I don’t know what he was doing, but he was cracking us up!

Alex and Miss Barrie

We didn’t have time for this picture before school, so we took it when we got home. He’s proudly wearing his “Back to School Treats” from Miss Barrie and Miss Sharon.

Spencer had so much fun at the grocery store and the house with just Mommy, but was SO excited to see Alex again when we picked him up.