Last night we went to the Education Station's Open House - come and "meet your teachers and see your classroom." Ellie was very excited all day about going - we all were, actually...
It was a very positive experience for Ellie, I think. We underestimated how many kids were involved in this program, though. Ellie is in the MWF am class (20 kids), and there's a MWF pm class (20 more kids), a T/Th am class (another 20)... and that's just on the west side of the buiding -- that many kids will attend on the east side of the building as well! Needless to say, all of those kids plus their siblings plus their parents made for a pretty crowded event last night. But, nonetheless, Ellie enjoyed meeting her teachers - when I asked her if she thought her teachers were nice, she said, "all teachers are nice...duh..." All of the kids had different colored name tags on depending on what class they were in - she got really good at spotting the other "red circle" nametags and she was just going up to kids and saying "hi, I'm ellie, I'm new." It was pretty good (she didn't get that "outgoing-ness" from either one of her parents, that's for sure!)
Even though the building is pretty different from the daycare center they went to in Illinois, I think she was "comforted" to see that it was a lot of the same stuff - a rug for "circle time," a "housekeeping area," a "math center," etc. etc. etc. We were there for over an hour just checking it all out -- nathan was having fun, too. That will be the trick tomorrow moring, getting Nathan to leave...hmmm... we'll have to find something fun to sign him up for on MWF's, too!
First day of school tomorrow - full report coming soon...
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