First day of School!!!

Today was the first day of school. Aunica started 2nd grade and loves it. She has a great teacher and I just know it is going to be a challenging but fun year for her. Jack started Preppie Kindergarten today (1st year of a 2 year program) and he absolutely loved it. His teacher is awesome and has a lot of experience with young kids. She has taught Kindergarten for many years and took some special training courses in the last year to become a Prep K teacher. She will be using something called High Scope Learning/Teaching...it is a Philosophy of learning. The best way it has been descibed to me is that it is a form of Montessori mixed with a little Piaget mixed with some academics, but this year will be mostly about the child, how the kids interact in social situations and how they explore their environments. They will have some academic instruction but nothing too in depth. I am so excited about that---Jack is still only 4, he won't turn 5 until the end of November. The classroom is set up in a certain way and the class is getting some new furnature that sounds like it is going to make the room so comfy. Jack's class is made up of 5 girls and 11 boys LOL SEE boys are less mature than girls :) The kids must make the Kindergarten cutt-off of being 5 by this December to be in the class, but may not be ready for an academic K class. I chose to wait with Jack because he needs the extra year, he is still so young I think regular K would have been too much. This class seems so perfect for him. He is SO happy. He told me today that his teacher is "cool" and his class is fun and he likes his new friends. When I picked him up he asked if we could go to playgroup though :( so I know he misses his friends already. A couple of pics...