On August 30
th Sophia had her first day of school! She is attending afternoon preschool 3 days a week at "The Academy for Children" in downtown Fargo. It's a WONDERFUL school! I cried dropping her off the first day, so the principal sent me 3 email updates at work letting me know what Sophia was working on, and the staff took many pictures of her throughout the afternoon and then Sophia and I viewed the pictures when I picked her up at 5. Sophia got "a little sad" the first 2 days, but by day 3 she was fine the whole time! They do lots of wonderful things at her school, including music and French lessons and lots of field trips. Her first field trip is in 2 weeks; they are going to the art museum! They also go to the park down the road quite a bit, and the children are growing vegetable "box gardens" around the school grounds. There are so many wonderful things about her school! We all just love it! Sophia is very excited to go back after our long weekend together. :)
First day of school poses outside the front door!
Sophia brings her Dora backpack
Hanging up her backpack on her very own hook!
When we left her she had very comfortably joined the other children in "circle time" to hear a story!
These pictures are from her school orientation the week before she started classes! The new kids each got to have a private orientation with the teacher (Ms Maria) and the classroom.
Sophia's school is a Montessori school, and they have fabulous Montessori-specific learning materials. The school is very experiential; there is no lecturing. Each child does what they call "works" throughout the day on his or her own work mat. It's a
pre-k/Kindergarten combo class and the
kindergartners help the younger children.
Ms Maria helping Sophia learn how to use her work mat! You can just barely see Sophia's
name tag (with her symbol, the red diamond) on her mat. That's how Sophia can "save" her work on her work mat if she needs to do something else, like snack or recess, etc.
Sophia got to meet one of her classmates; who had the next orientation time slot!
Pulling papers out of her own
cubby
The southwest corner of the playground
Sophia circling her choices on her first
book order!
Yay for school!
On August 30th Sophia had her first day of school! She is attending afternoon preschool 3 days a week at "The Academy for Children" in downtown Fargo. It's a WONDERFUL school! I cried dropping her off the first day, so the principal sent me 3 email updates at work letting me know what Sophia was working on, and the staff took many pictures of her throughout the afternoon and then Sophia and I viewed the pictures when I picked her up at 5. Sophia got "a little sad" the first 2 days, but by day 3 she was fine the whole time! They do lots of wonderful things at her school, including music and French lessons and lots of field trips. Her first field trip is in 2 weeks; they are going to the art museum! They also go to the park down the road quite a bit, and the children are growing vegetable "box gardens" around the school grounds. There are so many wonderful things about her school! We all just love it! Sophia is very excited to go back after our long weekend together. :)
First day of school poses outside the front door!
Sophia brings her Dora backpack
Hanging up her backpack on her very own hook!
When we left her she had very comfortably joined the other children in "circle time" to hear a story!
These pictures are from her school orientation the week before she started classes! The new kids each got to have a private orientation with the teacher (Ms Maria) and the classroom.
Sophia's school is a Montessori school, and they have fabulous Montessori-specific learning materials. The school is very experiential; there is no lecturing. Each child does what they call "works" throughout the day on his or her own work mat. It's a pre-k/Kindergarten combo class and the kindergartners help the younger children.
Ms Maria helping Sophia learn how to use her work mat! You can just barely see Sophia's name tag (with her symbol, the red diamond) on her mat. That's how Sophia can "save" her work on her work mat if she needs to do something else, like snack or recess, etc.
Sophia got to meet one of her classmates; who had the next orientation time slot!
Pulling papers out of her own cubby
The southwest corner of the playground
Sophia circling her choices on her first book order! Yay for school!
1 comment:
YAYYYYYYYYY!!!! SO exciting! The school looks really neat and she does look incredibly grown up. Can't wait to hear more about it!
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