We Are Family: Last Day of Preschool. Ever.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Last Day of Preschool. Ever.

Yesterday was David's last day of preschool. And the last day I will ever have a preschooler. It was a tough day for this Mama...

But it was a good day for David, to end a good year of school. At the end of last year, he was released from the Early Childhood program at our school, because his speech had improved so much! Al and I were happy about his progress and, at the same time, sad that he'd be leaving the wonderful EC program. And we wondered what we'd do about school this year.

After checking out different programs and talking with other parents, we chose the Pre-K program at Lord of Life Christian Preschool in LaFox. We know several families who enrolled their children there and were very happy with the program and teachers. They had a Pre-K class that met four afternoons per week, just what he had be doing in EC. (This year, David continued walk-in speech sessions one hour per week and improved so much that he was released from speech altogether in April!)

David had a good year at Lord of Life. He enjoyed his time there, made new friends, learned new things. There were plenty of days when he would have rather stayed at home with me, but it was good to keep him in the classroom environment as he prepares for Kindergarten next year.

As has become my tradition, here are his First Day/Last Day pictures. You can see that he's grown a lot (especially when you compare the two pictures of him signing in on the white board). What you can't see in pictures is how articulate he is, how much he's learned, and how he's really matured.