First Day of 4 Year Preschool

It’s hard to believe it’s back-to-school time already!  Evie is attending school at Linworth Children’s Center this again this year.  She moved up to the Tiger Class and will be going 3 days a week.  Not only that, she’ll be there all day on Tuesdays for a Pre-School Plus program.  The school offers this program in afternoon so she’ll be attending her regular class on Tuesday mornings, stay for lunch and then have this extra class in the afternoon.  We hesitated a little because she is only four and we didn’t want it to be too much for her.  But after finding out more information about the program, we decided to go for it.  It’s still strongly play-based, but she’ll have extra time to work on some skills that she’ll need next year for kindergarten. 

Mitch was so sad that Evie went to school without him.  :(

The start of the school year also brought another huge change for our family - Pat started working nights.  He’ll still have Saturdays off so we will still have some all-day family time, but most days, he will be working late afternoon to close at Barcelona.  Obviously this is not the ideal situation, but it’s what will work best for our family right now.  Last year Evie went to school in the afternoons, but that wasn’t an option this year.   Her new school schedule makes it difficult for me to do drop off & pick-up.  With Pat working nights, he’ll be able to get her to and from school most days, it will reduce the number of hours that the kids spend in daycare and help to alleviate the cost of childcare a little bit.  All we can do is try it.  If we decide that it’s not working, we will figure something else out, but for now, this is life.

He felt a little better spending the morning with Mama and Daddy!!

Evie is super enthusiastic about school and we are very excited for her.  Her class is bigger this year (last year she only had 7 kids, this year I think it’s 12) and, from what I can tell, they will expect a little more from them in terms of learning and classroom responsibilities.  Her teachers, Miss Becky and Miss Beth, seem very nice.  It will be hard to top Miss Teri, her teacher from last year, but we’re hopeful that Miss Becky and Miss Beth will be fantastic as well.  Here’s to a fantastic school year!!