Ella's First Day of Preschool--The Full Report

Ella started preschool this week. She was soooo excited! A couple weeks ago she told me she wanted to go to school. I told her I was so happy she was excited for school but that she would have to wait a few weeks. Now it's here and she couldn't be more excited. She hates that she has to wait to go to class until after lunch! :-)

On her first day, Lily and I brought her to class where her teacher, Miss Laurie had a scavenger hunt to find her locker, name tag, find the bathroom, say hi to the teacher, and find a spot on the blue carpet. Then we did the typical Ella good-bye of high five, kiss on the head, and a nose rub. She said, "Bye Mom." And that was my cue to leave. :-)

Then when I got there to pick her up, she was so excited to tell me all about her day. We got her Tinkerbell backpack out of her locker and said bye to the teacher. As we walked out, she said, "Bye my class." I thought that was the cutest thing ever! On the way home she told me about her bear drawing and how she wanted to finish coloring it at home. She went to the "Motor Room" aka the gym (motor for gross motor skills) and kicked balls and played catch. Then she helped clean up all the balls. Miss Laurie also told me that Ella worked with Chris, the speech therapist for about a half hour. She will be getting speech help both afternoons during the week.

And that was about it! Andrew is back from Los Angeles. We all took her to school this afternoon so Daddy could see where her class was and the routine of signing her in and out, etc. We'll see what she has to say about today! I'm sure she'll give us a full report!