Our little Puccina started preschool last week, on 9/9/09. The teacher, Miss Christine, divided the class that day into two groups with different hourlong timelslots, and each student came with a parent or two to their particular group slot. Curt & I took Viv from 9:15-10:15. She didn't have an accident or cry, and she didn't seem to hate it, so we think that means that it went well.
Her class meets on M, W, and F from 9 to noon. So, she has been back to school twice since that first day with us and is still accident-free. I am not 100% sure about tear-free, but there have been no calls from the teacher or anything. It drives me absolutely nuts that I will ask her about her day and she provides no details at all. On Friday she said, "I made a new friend." But when I asked more, she couldn't or wouldn't tell me anything about this new friend, not name, not even gender. I wish I could watch her in action without her knowing I was there. I hope she's well-behaved, but I have a hard time imagining that to be the case. Look at the attitude she's throwing in these first two pictures we took at home before we left for school!
The pictures after the first two are of Viv in front of school, in her classroom, and in the school gym. That last picture is of her with the one friend, Carrie, who she met that first hour we were there to observe. The position of Viv's body in that picture reminds me of a Chrles M Schulz illustration - I could just see one of the Peanuts gang in that position.
