We are planning to wait until Jaydon is six to enroll him in kindergarten, his birthday is right around the cut off date and there is a lot of research about the benefits of being older versus younger etc. So this year we weren't sure if we should do a preschool or not, we decided to enroll him in one and were pretty happy to find one at a gymnastics facility that included 45 minutes of a day of PE type exercise class. It also had a small music focus and we thought that would be great.
The night before his first day reading a book about Spot and his first day of school. He was a bit nervous.
Walking into the class
The gym facility
The welcome board with all the kids names
Finding his name and putting it in the basket to show he was present.
His artwork and activities from his first month.
Jaydon had a bit of a hard time with the separation from mom and he was a bit scared of the gym teacher (a big guy with long hair and a full beard). As time passed in the first month drop off got harder and harder and he continued to not want to go. After giving it a good try for the month of September we decided it was a combination of him not being quite ready and maybe not being quite the right fit. The nice thing is with us going a year early there really was no pressure to continue so we were able to pull him out without any worries. We do activities around the community and we will see if in the start of the year we want to look at something for him to do a couple hours a week away from mom and home by himself or if we will just wait until next September and start at a new preschool.
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