Preschool Orientation

Ivan had preschool orientation right after Michael got done with class. So we all went to the school together. Me and the kids got to play in the wildlife museum on campus.

"Ooo, look at all the little eggs!"

He asked me to take a picture of him with the pelican. 

Charlotte was kinda scared of all the big animal heads. 

Here they are sharing a snack. 

Ivan moved so he could see the other animals and Charlotte followed. 

I signed Ivan up for the preschool lab at BYU-I this semester. The way the class works is that BYU-I students set up all the coursework and teach the class themselves with a few faculty members overseeing the class. This means he gets into the class for pretty cheap and that there are 5 or 6 teachers in there working with the kids at all times. And they have basically access to any teaching materials they can think of. I was so excited when I found out he got in.

I got to meet his teachers at a home visit last week and so far I'm not impressed. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I feel like his teachers are so young! And not that being young means you're stupid, but these girls just didn't seem all there. Hmm.

We had orientation with all the teachers and all the kids in the class. It was a little crazy. We were all in the same room, the parents, the teachers, and the kids. And lots of people had lots of kids and they were all there too. Apparently I'm really not good at situations with small rooms and lots of people. Then came time for the teachers to actually tell us the rules for the class. The rest of the time we'd just been letting the kids play and get used to the classroom. So when they wanted to talk to the parents, all they had were these tiny kid chairs to sit in. Really? You know in advance that adults will be gathering in this room, why not be prepared? For instance, you could have all the kids go to the classroom and have the adults meet in a separate room with real chairs to sit in. Also, the things they talked about at the orientation were the same things they said to us at the home visit that all the teachers did with each kid. Not really sure why we did it twice.

But the kids had a great time! They have a class pet, a gecko. Ivan got to pet it and he thought it was the coolest. They also have a bunch of little potties in there and Ivan was pretty dang excited to use a potty that "fit him just right."

Charlotte liked the big stuffed animals. She was just checking out all the other kids playing.