On Wednesday, February 1st, Elianna went to school for the first time. YIKES! My baby is growing up! I started talking to Mark about Elianna's social development and thinking about putting her in school this summer.
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| Out the front door with "Da-da." |
Unfortunately, she does not have any cousins her age, the kids on the street are a bit older and she's the only kid in her Sunday School class. At the park I see that she wants to interact with other children but does not know how to. For the most part, she will observe the others play. Also, as she will tell you, she is shy, but as I like to call it, slow to warm. In addition, I've seen her develop her readiness skills a lot faster than I've anticipated, so instead of waiting until this summer, she went this past week.
She is attending Lad n Lassie here in Whittier. She goes twice a week in the morning. We had gone to the school twice before her first day, so she could become familiar with the environment. Even though, when we reached the classroom door on the first day, she said, "Don't want it." As I expected, she cried when we left. Mark stayed at the door to see if she was still crying after we left and she was not. When we arrived, she was being held by Teacher Vanessa and was crying. Teacher Vanessa said that she had been crying for maybe, 5 minutes, but she sat through circle time (next to Teacher Vanessa) did the craft and went potty in the toilet. I had to call once, to see how she was doing. So we both did pretty good for her first day.
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| Bag pack ready! |
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| Snack bag |
The second day of school Mark went to pick her up and she came in the house saying, "I like outside (aka: recess time)." She sat on her own during circle time, ate part of her snack with the other kids and did the craft. I'll give it a couple of months, if she is enjoying it and we're able to financially swing it, we'll stick with it.
