Everleigh's First Day of Preschool and Kindergarten Orientation
After adamantly refusing to put on the super cute dress I laid out for her, Everleigh was more than happy to take pictures memorializing her first official day of preschool. She really wanted to go on the bus ride that was a part of Jakob's orientation, but she quickly forgot about it when she got into the classroom and saw her teachers.
Jakob's orientation went really well too. There was a wide range of emotions from his classmates when it was time for the parents to leave so that the kids could talk with their teacher and take the bus ride. Some were extremely clingy and on the verge of tears, while others didn't seem phased at all. Jakob had some nervous energy, but he wasn't anywhere close to clingy or sad. When I rejoined him after the (rather overwhelming) parent information session and Q&A, he was so nonplussed that you would have thought he'd been in kindergarten for months already.
Our plan is to send both kiddos on the bus tomorrow. We've been talking with Jakob about sitting with Everleigh, and although she's such a peanut, I think it will go well after they get a couple of rides under their belts. The bus loop is right in front of their classrooms, and their classrooms are directly across the hall from each other, so their walk is as minimal as it gets once they get off. The first rows on the bus are reserved for the youngest students, and we were assured there will be plenty of teachers in the bus drop area when the bus arrives to direct the flow of student bodies. But I still plan to go to school tomorrow to check in with them and make sure they get to their classrooms all right. (Hopefully this doesn't backfire on me...it's not hard for me to imagine smiling faces when they're getting on the bus, then demands to go home and tears when saying goodbye at their classrooms...but that's probably just my anxiety about their first day!)
Jakob's orientation went really well too. There was a wide range of emotions from his classmates when it was time for the parents to leave so that the kids could talk with their teacher and take the bus ride. Some were extremely clingy and on the verge of tears, while others didn't seem phased at all. Jakob had some nervous energy, but he wasn't anywhere close to clingy or sad. When I rejoined him after the (rather overwhelming) parent information session and Q&A, he was so nonplussed that you would have thought he'd been in kindergarten for months already.
Our plan is to send both kiddos on the bus tomorrow. We've been talking with Jakob about sitting with Everleigh, and although she's such a peanut, I think it will go well after they get a couple of rides under their belts. The bus loop is right in front of their classrooms, and their classrooms are directly across the hall from each other, so their walk is as minimal as it gets once they get off. The first rows on the bus are reserved for the youngest students, and we were assured there will be plenty of teachers in the bus drop area when the bus arrives to direct the flow of student bodies. But I still plan to go to school tomorrow to check in with them and make sure they get to their classrooms all right. (Hopefully this doesn't backfire on me...it's not hard for me to imagine smiling faces when they're getting on the bus, then demands to go home and tears when saying goodbye at their classrooms...but that's probably just my anxiety about their first day!)
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