Preschool brag

I have loved both preschools C has attended this year.  I can't say enough good things about the sweetness/fun factor of his teachers in Normal.  They were so sweet.  C knew he was loved there.  I loved the drop-off/pick up procedure as well.  I loved how I knew exactly what they'd done at school that day. 

I have to say though I'm in love with C's new preschool, too.  They don't do the exact drop-off like they did at Normal, but it's okay b/c the walk is miniscule.  I can choose to drop him off, but then he has to walk himself to class (under mild supervision), but again it's a super short walk, and someone supervises him from car to the gated playground, and then he's on his own to the room (which is maybe 25 feet inside).  I don't mind to just walk him in myself--which is what most parents do.  They don't tell you what happened each day, but there's a good reason...they offer lunch bunch each day, so kids are picked up at all different times.  Some kids leave at the end of "school," but others stay up until 3:30.  C has stayed til 2pm (an additional 2 hours) once a week since he started.  It's awesome.  I can get so much done.  It's only $4.50 an hour, so it's really cheap.  He loves it. 

Another reason I'm loving the school is they have so many activities.  Just this month C has had a pizza day  (school was extended an hour for free), a field trip to the firestation, a western day where they got to ride a horse and had western stuff in the classroom, show and tell related to the week's theme twice, and a school-wide picnic.  I also love how much more involved his craft projects are.  It seemed like before his projects mostly involved stamping, coloring, or painting.  Now he's practicing with a lot of gluing and cutting and shaping also.

Idon't know if you can see it, but the 2 pics on the right are from school.  The furthest is a sea horse--it really looks like one and the middle pic is a boat.  These were from ocean day and transportation week, respectively

this week is beach week.  this was his beach scene.  i can tell he did the cutting and gluing (maybe with a little assistance, but it's impressive!).

  he made a rocket last week, too that was 3 dimensional.

pic of him on the horse at Western day...that's me helping. he made the cutest horse magnet this day--it actually looked a lot like Skip the horse.

We miss our great friends terribly, but there are some really great things about the move, too.