Monday, January 05, 2009

Aerya's First Day of Preschool

We enrolled Aerya in "My First Preschool" at the Y and started today. We go each Monday morning for 8 weeks.
I was a bit nervous, but Aerya was quite excited. She of course knows Daddy's school so it's not really anything new for her.

We sang songs and played with the toys. The teacher read us a book about shapes and then the kids made pictures out of shapes (to form a spaceship, incase you couldn't tell :). The shapes were precut but Aerya glued them on all by herself.



Aerya stayed right by my side for the first 20 minutes, then was willing to cross the room (for very brief periods) without me, and asked the teacher two questions all on her own.

There's 10 kids (2 or 3 year olds) in the class and 6 of them had taken the class in the fall. They all knew each other and played with each other. The 4 new kids (including Aerya) played mostly on their own, or with their Mommies.

Aerya said she had a great time and that her favorite part was playing with Mr. PotatoHead. She listened very well to the teacher, but was not thrilled when it was time to stop playing, clean up and go back for circle time. She begrudgingly did it, and without a soother as there's "no soothers allowed in the school". Or so Mommy said!

We're looking forward to next week.

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