1. Davis provides way more details about his day at preschool than Addison does about Kindergarten. I find out everything from the color of the other children's shirts to the fact that they held the railing as they went outside for play time. I know everything they ate during their stuffed animal picnic and that they played ring-around-the-rosie with a parachute and Ms. Nancy said, "One more time!" Addison? I know he's made 4 friends named A, B, M, and S and that's about it.
2. School is exhausting. Everyone is sleeping later and has to be wakened in the morning. Every morning except Saturday morning. Odd how that works.
3. The school transition has been most difficult for Davis. He misses his best friend terribly and by day three threw a little hissy fit as we went out to the car to drop me at the train and Addison at school. "Why does he have to go to school again and again and again?" he protested.
4. You have to advocate for your child when you're dealing with a big administration. There was confusion at school about how Addison was getting home. Somehow he ended up on the bus list and since his teacher missed days 2 and 3 of school, the subs didn't know that he would be picked up by his dad. There were tears every day as he tried to explain to them. Finally, on day 4 we wrote a note to the teacher, kind but firm. I was extremely pleased that I got a call both from the school office and Addison's teacher apologizing for the confusion and putting the situation right. Now it's been all smiles at the end of the day.
5. Let the germs begin. Davis picked up a cold this week and last night started running a low-grade fever. And so it begins.
2 comments:
Oh so true about the germs! But think about the immune systems they are building up! At least that's what I used to tell myself with Jemima in Nursery!!
i have sometimes wondered why i had to go to school again and again and again... ;)
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