Tuesday, January 29, 2008

School's in the Future

N had his school appointment today, my poor head was spinning for quite a few hours after. I think it went good, thought it was more of an evaluation to see which school and program he should be in. They want him to go to the school down the street-very nice and convent for Mommy. The preschool is a full time program-5 days all day just like a regular school program(ie 1st grade). That part we are not sure about yet. One problem/issue(really the main one) is that daddy's 3 days off are all during the week, so this would really cut into the time he gets to spend w/Daddy. The other issue is how long that is for a 3yr old. It seems like a lot, besides the last month N was in daycare he hated it. He would start crying as soon as we turned the corner towards the center and when I picked him up he would have his blanket and kitty in hand and be pushing me out of the room wanting to go home. We are also not ready to push school on him THAT much.
The school district is really nice and said it could be flexible since 1)it's a voluntary program and 2)it's not really a "real" school(ie 1st grade). On Monday we meet the teacher, learn about her programs, and get to ask her questions. We talked about it(and got some feed back from Cole-thanks sis!) and we are going to just have him go 5 days til after lunch. We don't want him to miss to much time w/Daddy and we feel that's just to much for him. Later, in a few months we may decide to let him stay all day 2 of the days, but for now I think the 5 half days is more than enough. The speech teacher will also meet w/him once or twice a week, at school. Some of it will be one on one other times it will be whole class teachings. Overall I was very happy with how it went a little overwhelmed but happy.
Now I just have to make it through tomorrow and the rest of the week is a breeze!

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