1st day of Preschool

Tru is 3. He will not make the deadline for Kindergarten next year. His friend Lily does make the deadline. Thus, they will be in different grades. Sigh… we like Lily. She is nice to Tru.

When Wendi asked if we wanted to do a very casual preschool with Tru & Lily, I hesitated. I wasn’t sure I could commit to anything that involved people outside the family…. meaning I didn’t want to disappoint or let down if we were running on fumes. But I decided it would be good for me to do this for Tru since it was with only one family… = 2 kids! Hopefully I won’t disappoint! Plus, neither of us wanted to pay $70 a month for the neighborhood preschool.

Today was our first day of preschool. Please note: I am a much better preschool mom in my mind, than in reality. LOL. Lots of ideas… not enough energy or time.
But our first day turned out okay.
We had a play time.
We put together the alphabet with blocks.
The kids can count to about 20 … not 26 quite yet.
They had fun identifying the letters. Easy Peasy for them!
We had a snack.
Color & cut out flash cards. (p.s. when tru was cutting with scissors he said, “I am soooo happy.” Lily couldn’t understand why. His first time with scissors!!!)
A learning activity outside on the tramp throwing a ball and saying the alphabet and counting.
Then craft time… cheerios glued onto the letters in their name.
Hopefully I’ll get into a better groove and be creative and prepared ahead of time.

Overall… I’m so glad we are doing this. It is so good to do creative things with my kids. It forces me to sit down with them and teach. Lame that I wasn’t already doing that. Liza hung out with us which made it tricky, but now she can participate in her own way.

The first hour I was thinking, “Wow. I could totally have a small preschool when Liza is that age and Tru is in Kindergarten.” About 3/4 way through I was thinking, “Wow. I’m tired. This requires a lot of constant activities and patience.” Isn’t that the way it is!

Go Preschool!