::new school-old school::

Max had kind of an intro-to-school day on friday. He and I went and got to stay there for an hour. We met his teachers and a lot of the other kids and parents. Probably his favorite part was that he got to explore the classroom and playground a bit. He had a great time.

He was so excited to get ready in the morning. He came running out of his room and said TAA DAA!!

He didn't even realize his shirt was backwards until I told him. Total goofball, don't you think? I had to sweet talk him into letting me take a picture though. I think maybe he was a little embarrassed once he realized.

I took a couple of phone pictures while I was there with him--how could I resist? I was only about an inch away from bringing me big old camera with me, but I didn't want the other parents thinking I was a weirdo that had to document every second of my child's life. They have to wait to get to know me before they figure that part out!

He was thrilled that there was a keyboard. I imagine he'll spend a good amount of time on it.

Each of the kids made a "leaf" for the tree painted on the wall. His is on the upper left. I thought it was so cute.

Here he is "doing wash" in the little playhouse area. It was just him and all the girls when he was in there. It was funny because one of the little girls insisted on putting a baby doll in the washer and drier, and Max did NOT like that. The baby was NOT going to be ok. I thought it was supposed to be the opposite--litte boys doing things like that to torment little girls.

And finally:

The biggest hit of the day. This cool spinny bike toy thing. He loved it. It was cute when there were kids on all of the bikes, all pedaling furiously.
Max stayed on it until the bitter end. In fact when I finally went to remove him his little face was dripping with sweat. (The last few days have been really hot and humid because of a tropical storm moving up our way, yuck).

So the first day was quite the success, and he's totally excited to go for his first real day tomorrow morning.

But all this thinking and talking about school has made me think about his old school, the wonderful Purple Dragon school in Kansas City. Remember how I was posting about when they were doing because it was so fun and extreme? Well, I ran out of steam there sometime in the spring, but I still have all the notes on their snacks and stuff--well mostly just the snacks--to finish out the alphabet, so I'm going to go ahead and post them here, just for fun.

(For anybody that doesn't know, Max's teacher was teaching the kids the alphabet by going through the alphabet letter by letter. Each week would be assigned a letter, and everything they would talk about that week would start with the letter, and all their snacks would as well. It was really fun.)

For Q they ate quiche and queso and apples, yum.

For R it was ranchero cheese, rutebegas (have I ever eaten one?) and raspberries & cream, yum.

For S, sausages and crackers, sunflower seeds, spinach salad and salami.

("shell art" can you tell he made a land rover--I'm sure with no little help)

T was toast and applesauce and tortellini

For U they ate ugli fruit (?) and unusual snacks which included a huge deacon turnip, parsnips and figs.

(and made umbrellas out of paper)

For V they ate vegetables all week, including lima beans.

(and painted volcanos--I love this painting!!)

W was waffles with apricot jam, wontons, water chestnuts, wienies and watermelon (yum).

(and talked about walruses--this is one of the best coloring jobs he did all year)



(and made wood art and watercolor paintings)

For X they ate eXploring snacks, whatever that means!

And for good old Z they had zebra cakes, zucchini and zucchini toast.


This new school has a lot to live up to!
We already know it'll be very different of course. It's very play base where his last school was very academic based. But that's ok. Play is super important when you're four. I'm excited he'll get to spend time with other kids and have fun. That's the only real reason I wanted him to go to preschool in the first place.

We'll keep you posted.