Oh the places you’ll go -
Pre-K graduation was at the end of May and now Anne is going to be flying up to kindergarten in the fall. I am so proud of her and how hard she worked (and how much she learned!) during the year -- and I’m grateful for her patient teachers. Pre-K today is more like what kindergarten was for us: they learn letters, numbers, counting up to 50 and writing skills in addition curriculum on the environment, the community around them, helping others and being kind.
She made so much progress -- from struggling with scissor skills and handwriting to being great at both. She made good friends and had lots of fun.
The kids had so many interesting visitors! Barnacle Billie taught them about sea life, Wild Adventures brought other wild animals into the school and of course, they met doctors, dentists, policemen and firefighters. The fall brought hayrides, raking leaves sent from northern family and friends, pumpkins, Johnny Appleseed...and the spring saw them raising butterflies and other small critters in their classroom.
One of Anne’s favorite days was St Patrick’s day. They made a leprechaun trap and the teachers painted little green footprints around the school before they arrived the next day so the kids could track the leprechaun back to his treasure!
I am so grateful that Anne was able to have such a rich pre-K experience.
She will be attending the same school for K-8 (unless something changes). She is already looking forward to meeting her kindergarten teacher, playing in the big kid playground and getting to eat lunch in the cafeteria with the big kids (the preschoolers have their own ‘lower’ school with separate facilities and they eat lunch in their classrooms). She is not looking forward to having to wear a full uniform all the time though!
This is a new chapter for her and one we are all very excited about!
