We're starting preschool...sorta!
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| Mon, 08-11-2003 - 9:14am |
Well, Allison's school-aged friends are going back to school today, including Lyssa next door who is entering second grade. Preschool is starting up in the next two weeks for her 4-yo friends. During the summer, I'd been stock piling the Brighter Visions monthly workbooks and projects that I get (figuring "Hey, it's summer") to begin when the new school year started. I starting talking about her friends going to school and preschool, and told her that we'd do preschool at home (as we tried for part of last year). Oh, she *loved* the sound of that, and bugged me all weekend "Let's play preschool, Mommy". Our schedule was such that we didn't get around to it until last night, but when we did, she really delved into it. Last year, she'd get discouraged at some of the activities and so we didn't work through some of the late-spring books in their entirety. Last night we went through some of the incomplete activities, and she was eager to finish them - no complaints that such-and-such was too hard for her - and even went beyond what the pages suggested.
I think she's more than ready to follow an at-home plan for preschool whereas last year she was less focused, and I know I'll be able to mix it up with outings and crafts. Music is no problem, for we're always playing music and singing together, and she'll be joining the kid's choir at church. Reading? Again no problem! We're regulars at the library, and I can find books there and even here at home that tie into the themes of the workbooks. I'm more enthusiastic about doing this at home this year than last year, too. I hope we both want to keep it up!
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