Today C1 and I went to her preschool orientation. This will be her second year at the sweet little school down the road. She is so excited! We signed her up and the end of school in mid-May, before the idea of homeschooling seemed so real to me. Now that we have spent the summer test-driving homeschooling, I am sad to see her go off to school again. I have (mostly) enjoyed having her home every day, and learning all sorts of new things. I love digging in to the things that interest her and exposing her to so much that is new to her. I could obviously decide to keep her home starting this year, but it is just 7.5 hours/week, and she loves it.
We switched from T/TH mornings to M/W/F afternoons, so only one child from her class last year is in her class this year, but that doesn't seem to bother her. She was thrilled to see her music teacher, and learn that she would have her for music this year too. She got to see one of her teachers from last year, and I had to chuckle to myself as I filled out paperwork and heard C1 chattering away to her about our "school at home" and what we had been up to with Spelling and Five In A Row.
I wonder how my sweet girl will feel about "letter of the week" lessons when she not only knows all the letters and the sounds they make, but is an emergent reader. A little part of me hopes she will be bored, and ASK to stay home to work on studies with me! But lots of good stuff happens there, and she will have fun. When I tell her that I will miss doing our daily studies, she says, "Listen mom, it can be like a pattern - school at home one day, and school at school the next day, and then school at home again, over and over in a pattern! Just like that!"
