First Day of Preschool

What an exciting day! As we skipped up to preschool Anthony announced, "I'm exciting" and boy was he! He had his new backpack with his name embroidered on it and was all ready for preschool. He's attending Children's Center and I'm very excited about it, too!

Parents were required to attend the first day so I got to watch the fun first hand. He painted with water colors, drew with markers on big art paper, played with play-dough, played dress-up, raced cars with his pal W and started cooking in the kitchen. And that was all in the first 30 minutes or so.

We then gathered together to walk across the yard for tricycle time. Anthony was a pro at the tricycles and quickly separated from me to go zooming around the track. (Some of his classmates were a little less sure of themselves.)

After tricycle time we went back to the room for hand-washing and snack which Anthony thoroughly enjoyed. We then had circle time, which he found to be a little difficult. He was great with the singing, but had a hard time sitting in his spot in the circle for story time. He ended up on a teacher's lap and that worked out just fine.

It was back to the yard for more outdoor playtime and then off to daycare for the rest of the day. He was pretty wiped out by then!

























You can't tell from the picture above, but he's clearly one of the youngest kids. His pal W is 8 days younger and they are the two youngest in the class. It showed--they looked younger and the others could all sit still. Honestly, I think sitting still is overrated. We're still going to work on it, though.