Kindergarten

This post is a little mind blowing to me, because I still haven't wrapped my mind around the fact that my sweet little Molly has started kindergarten. It seemed like the years between 2 years old and 5 years old have FLOWN by. She's going to Cowan Fundamental which is about a half mile from our house. You have to open enroll to get into the school, and she was on the waiting list for a while but we are really happy she got in. Last Friday, we got to go visit her new classroom and meet her teacher. She was a little nervous but got quite excited when her teacher gave her a giant new book to take home with her!


Then on Monday morning, the whole family (including Steve who stayed home from work) took Molly to school. Here she is just before we left the house and with Daddy at the school.


The kids all met at the kindergarten playground and their teacher marched them in a line to the classroom and had them all hang up their bags outside. Molly used her Princess backpack that she got for her birthday!


Then the kids all sat on the floor mat and the teacher kicked out the parents. Okay... we weren't really "kicked out". But she nicely informed us that the PTC (Parent Teacher Committee) was hosting a nice breakfast for the kindergarten parents to attend to get to know one another. I thought that was a nice way to encourage all those parents to leave the class and get to know one another!


And here's her teacher... Mrs. Lorca. So far I'm really happy with her and she seems like a great match for Molly's timid personality. I'm looking forward to volunteering in the classroom and getting to know her better. My first day in the class is this Friday! I'm ecstatic to see the high level of parental involvement at this school, and Mrs. Lorca has two parents volunteering in class EVERY day. That's amazing to me! Here's looking forward to a great school year!