1st day of school

Thursday was Katherine's first day of school. We switched from the Mother's Day Out at our church to another one. We did this fro two reasons. First of all it is a lot closer. Second, there were weeks that Katherine was at our church 5 days in a week and she would not want to go. Now we are able to separate church and school as separate places, teachers and friends. Katherine actually began attending the new school during their summer program so beginning this week was no big deal to her.
I wanted to get the obligatory first day of school picture. Katherine was more interested in reading. Already the academic bookworm.
Here is a better picture with her new backpack and lunch box. She has been so excited about her new items since we picked them out last week.
This is in the foyer of her school. I tried to get her to pose with her friend Kyle but they were not interested in standing still long enough.

This school actually has two classes for 2 year olds, a young two's and an older two's. By her birthday Katherine was placed in the young two's class. When the teachers showed up for in-service, her teacher from the summer told the director that Katherine really needed to be in the older two's class because she is so verbal and sharp. The director called to make sure that was OK with me. OF COURSE! I knew that she was pretty quick to pick things up but wondered if I was just being a biased mother. It was encouraging to hear from her teacher. All of the other kids in her class will turn 3 this month which makes them 5 months older than Katherine. Her teachers, Ms. Cindy and Ms. Tracey have both been teaching at this school for a few years. Last year they taught a 3 year old class so they will be doing more educational activities than the 2 year old class usually does. All of this makes me very happy.

Katherine was excited to go and walked into the building like she owned the place. She ran right to her class and started playing. She never looked back to see where I was. When I went to pick her up, she was busy and did not come right away so I guess she had a good day. The first day was just a day to adjust to new teachers and kids as well as learning the rules and routines. Next week they start with the letter "A" and number "1" (duh, we are not going to start in the middle). I plan to supplement this with the letter of the week curriculum on the days she is not in school. I think it will help us both to have a little more structure to our day.