It was a big day! Riley kept saying "I get to go to BOTH schools today!" (her summer preschool and her new school for fall). She wore her pretty pink dress and boots. When we got there it turned out I knew the front office lady from Roo's old dance class. Super cool, right? It's always good to know someone in the office. We marched over to her class, I remembered the way from my school tour. One little boy and his dad were there when we arrived so we started looking around. Roo went right for the play kitchen! In fact, we couldn't get her to look around the rest of the room.
Her teacher seems very enthusiastic. When we found Roo's chair there was an agenda in the pocket just like big brother's! The teacher left a goody bag at each seat too. She got a notebook, dinosaur stencil ruler, glow bracelet, Thing One eraser, a glow bracelet, bubbles and a homemade crayon. Oh, this teacher and I are going to get along great! The whole room is Dr. Seuss themed. Each child has one of the "One Fish Two Fish" with their name on it and there are fish bowls with velcro all around the room to indicate which station they're playing in. There's a "Cat in the Hat" wall and the alphabet strip has the examples from "The ABC Book."
When we left each parent was given an apple with a note attached. The note on the apple says: "An apple for the teacher is nothing new, but don't forget the first teacher is you. I look forward to working together this year." The ribbon had pretty ABC's on it. I have a good feeling about this year.
The only bummers so far are that their dress code seriously restricts shoe choice. No flip flops or backless shoes I expected, but no dress shoes or boots either. Their reasoning makes sense they want everyone to be able to participate in everything. I get it, but she has so many cute shoes! Also, as it turns out there is a child with a peanut allergy in her class so we've been asked not to send anything with peanuts for snacks or lunches. This was huge because I'd been compiling a list of "healthy two food group snacks" to meet the requirements, but a lot of them involved peanut butter. One of my mommy friends who is in the same boat recommended Sun Butter which is made from sunflower seeds which I intend to try.
It was a great visit! It was very hard to get Riley to leave. I'm glad she only has to wait until Monday. Back to school here we come!
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