"Neemee go school!"

Today was our first Early Childhood Family Education class. We are enrolled in Terrific Twos and so far so great! Class starts at 9:30 a.m. with a free play and parents stay with the kids. After about 30 minutes we start circle time, which involves parachute time, songs and group interaction, then at 10:30 the parents go into the next room for adult discussion and the kids do crafts, play with play-doh, have story time and snacks. We wrap up at 11:30.

Overall today's class was a complete sucess. Sammy loved all the toys - they had school buses, planes, and loads of "little people" not to mention tons of animals. He even skipped out on the part of parachute time because "Neemee play animals?" He was quiet and only one little girl followed him over, and for two-year-olds that's appropriate. I'm sure after he gets used to the toys he'll be more into the parachute, but I think the parachute smells kind of funny so maybe it's the funky smell that turned him away... (?) He also loved the part when the kids each got to pick two sticks and then sing a song about tapping them together - Sammy is a genius!!! - he picked up "two" sticks (yay! he sort of knows his numbers!) and then he followed the teacher's instuctions very well ("rolling the sticks" or "tapping way up high"). I guess he had fun while I was away, too, because there was no separation anxiety or anything and when I returned he was doing a happy skip in the room, and then told me about his play (and hopefully a bit educational!) time and snack. :)

We walked home from the school and by then he was beat. He was lounging on the couch with his blankies and saying, "Neemee go night-night couch."





This is him going night-night. Whadda nut!