Whoops, I never shared Adara's first day of school pictures! She started the week after Emily, and has been loving it. She goes three mornings a week to the preschool at our local elementary school, and is delighted to be at Emily's school. No nerves or separation anxiety here! She's also been staying for lunch these first few weeks, and as she's been the only child signed up for the lunch program, she loves the chance to sit and talk to her teachers for 15 minutes. She's one of the older children in the class, and her teachers tell me that she is often the role model for how to sit at circle time, etc. and that's she's very independent and capable.
As soon as Emily got off the bus, she started asking Adara all about her first day. :)
Adara has also been going one afternoon a week to the Hampshire Cooperative Nursery School's afternoon program. It's an outdoor program based on exploring and learning about nature, they've done things like catch grasshoppers, learn about NH snakes, bake apple crisp, and helping clear sticks from an "enchanted forest" that will become an outdoor classroom. She was nervous pulling in here the first day, as she'd never seen the place and didn't know anyone in her class, but once we walked into the playground area, she wouldn't even look up enough to let me take her picture.
This week, she'll also start one more afternoon per week at a local middle school's early childhood education program - the students who are learning about child development need preschoolers to practice on. (read: 2 hours of free babysitting).
It's certainly more school than she needs at this point, so we're going to see how it goes for the fall But, at the moment she's loving it and it's allowing me to keep up with my job so that I can actually focus on the kids while they are home.
And just for fun, a photo of me at nursery school at age 4. :)
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