First Day of Preschool

 

"I didn't do it!

"Honest Mom, I am telling the truth."

My Little Man is hopefully going to do preschool this year, we’ll see. Last year he was my worst student, if I could’ve kicked him out, I would’ve. He interrupted me during story time, he does not sit on the floor with the kids, and he rarely did any type of coloring, cutting or project. He wanted to play with the toys instead of do his work. He did like play time & snack time. Honestly most days I would have him watch Letter Factory or one of the other great Leap Frog videos. Thankfully he played with his favorite friend Turner a lot, so he would only be around for 1 preschool class (THANK YOU JENNY). I LOVE him, but he is a little boy who is very active, loud, silly, mischievous, curious, short tempered, short attention span (unless he’s playing with something that has wheels). Thankfully he is GREAT at church (if I’m not around) and at friend’s houses. T.J. is also so loveable and so sweet. His favorite part of the nighttime routine is cuddling. It is not enough to read a story, he wants to cuddle, sing and just be together. When we watch a movie together he wants to be on my lap, at church he sits on my lap, at soccer games, he sits on my lap. He did great when we did a little homeschooling during the summer. He LOVED sitting on my lap while we practiced the letters and sounds. Ask him what the 5 vowels are and he’ll start singing them. I learned this summer he LOVES music, he is always singing, even in time out he’ll be singing about it. He can cut and do worksheets but would much rather play. He is smart and is learning, but he is more of a hands-on, movement person. The few times he did sing with us during preschool he was standing behind the kids dancing while singing. I didn’t realized he liked dancing, I learned that this Summer when his sister taught a beginners dance/movement class (another great story). He is NOT a sit down, be quite type of student. Is that bad? Would a teacher accept him for who he is? Would he always be in trouble at school? I don’t know, but I do know that he will do great at home, even if he pushes my patience to the limit. This year I don’t know if he’ll attend preschool or not, does it matter? The teacher in me says YES, the Mom in me says NO. If he were going to public school I would push him to conform to help him with the school system. But why should he conform, he’s staying home with me and he’ll be learning while sitting on my lap, what teacher has the time to do that? Thankfully I am planning on doing just that and I will love the closeness, because I am sure someday he will no longer want to sit on my lap *I wrote the above before preschool started and I must admit he did well on his first day of preschool. He actually sat on the floor, of course he HAD to sit by his friend and his cousin but he actually sat on the floor and was with us the whole afternoon. He did disappear for a little while near the end of preschool, I think he wandered upstairs and watched T.V. for a couple min. but he wasn’t gone for long. I was very proud of him and I’m hopeful this will last, but expect we will continue to have good and bad moments.