Kindergarten Perspective

Well, Reese is registered for school. It was very crowded but we did it. I thought I'd be sad but walking back into a school was fun (for me anyway) and I am excited about the things she'll learn and do. Remind me of this on that first day when she's gone for SO long.

 I made an appointment for a school tour for her to see the school. She has never set foot in an elementary school so I thought it might be fun for her to see the cafateria, art room, classrooms etc. We have had some funny conversations about school building up to the tour.

 Here are a few...
Me: Reese we have that school tour tomorrow.
Reese: So they can show me my toys?
Me: No, you won't have toys in kindergarten. You'll be there to learn but the learning will be fun. Reese: Where will I do opening? (At her prek they have "opening" where they sing, pray, etc)
Me: You won't do opening either but you will say the pledge but in your classroom. You get to sing but that's in music class.
Reese: Where will I learn about God?
Me: Oh sweety you won't learn about God at school but we'll keeping learning about God at home and church.
  Reese: Why? Because people in kindergarten don't love God?
Me: Well, I don't know but it's a rule that you don't learn about God in school but you can still pray in school by yourself and you can talk to your friends about God.

Bless her heart! Another one today...

Reese: What will I do in school?
me: (I explained subjects...) oh and there's a science room with little animals like turtles.
Reese: And elephants and zebra's??
me: No baby, it's not a zoo. There will be hamsters and frogs. Little things
Reese: so not aligators or lions? Even if they're caged?
Me: No, just little things. (and I just laughed)

She has NO concept of what elementary school is. I love her. The tour was very parent oriented (I'm assuming some were trying to decide if they wanted to do public or private) and very thorough. :) We were able to see most of the kinder classrooms and I must admit it made me REALLY miss teaching. Reese loved seeing the learning centers and all the fun things on the wall. The library is just too cute and the school is very nice. I'm very excited for her. At the end of the tour we were asked if we had any questions. One family did and as we were leaving I noticed sweet Reese holding her hand up waiting to be called on. ha! I let her ask her question. She wanted to know why we didn't see the science room. Of course she did, my animal lover. But it was outside in a portable so it wasn't on the list. When we got home I noticed she was grabbing and setting her bedroom up and had her high heels on. A minute later I see this. She was playing school.

Oh happy day. She's excited.