First Day of Preschool!

Well, as the title reads, today was Nate's first day of preschool! We have been preparing him for months, ever since Vacation Bible School a few months ago. Over the last month we got a bunch of "first day of school" books, some directly related to starting preschool. We practiced dropping him off for extended periods of time without having us present.

So...Nate did wonderful and loved his big first day of school! I had no issues at all with dropping him off and leaving him there on his own, despite not having friends in his class or knowing anyone. He was excited to wear his "big boy backpack" and hung it up in the classroom and then imemediately sat at a table and began to color (each little group table had a different activity set up). When I told him that Aaron and I were leaving, he gave me a kiss and hug and off we went.

Parents take turns bringing snack/water/cups for each class. The kids get a folder that they bring each time that will carry their activities done for the day-like today, for example, was a worksheet that taught the color blue that they colored. Nate also made a door hanger. The kids also get an "optional" homework assignment each week (ours for this week is connecting dots on a zebra). The folder also has a calendar that outlines what they will be doing each class-for tomorrow, Nate is going to be having show and tell and doing a worksheet learning about the color brown. Thursday they have PE. On the same sheet, the teachers will be using stamps/stickers using the colors green,yellow and red. Green means they were great in class, yellow meaning they maybe didn't listen or were mean to a friend and red would mean that I would have gotten called. They didn't stamp today though.

Nate was so excited to see me and tell me all about his day that he ran to the door as soon as he saw me (they have the kids sitting down with their backpacks and we each take a turn going to get our child). He had to sit back down until it was my turn :) Now that Nate is speaking so much more, it was fun for him to rattle off everything he did and what he had for snack,etc. He excitedly opened his folder and showed me what he had done. As soon as we got home, he wanted to call his daddy and Nana to tell them about his day! :)

After preschool we met with a few friends to get cupcakes at a new place. Not only were the cupcakes delicious but Nate got to frost/decorate his own. We got a strawberry cupcake and chose sprinkles, M & M's and gummy bears to go on top. Nate was mostly interested in the toppings so I took care of the cupcake ;) We had a great morning!

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