preschool

I’m doing “Mommy Preschool” with a few friends this fall.  We started last week taking turns teaching/hosting preschool.  It was my turn first!  We meet 2 days a week.  Sophie was really excited about school until she found out that she not only DIDN’T get to ride the bus but school was at her house?  And Mom was the teacher???  Lame.  Most everyday we see the big kids board the school bus with their backpacks so they can, “Go to school, learn their letters, and write their names.”  She got over her disappointment and seemed to like playing school with me ok.

Here she is painting her A.  That’s painter’s tape they painted over and when I removed the tape there was a white A on their pages.  Cute idea I thought, found it online. (Please excuse her dress that is slipping off her shoulder, new fall wardrobes must start out a little big to last through winter.)

Truth is that not much of the curriculum we have planned will be new to Sophie but the whole idea of sitting down and listening, raising her hand with questions, and not playing with toys for an hour and a half is new.  And it’s good for her to learn those things as well as some social skills preparing her for next year when I hope to enroll her in a formal preschool for her last year before kindergarten.  {GASP!}  Did I really just say that?  Sophie will be going to kindergarten?  Scary thought, but we have 2 more years.