Interesting school week...

This past week has been a really odd one at school. On Monday I had a PPT, so I was out of the AM class for a little over an hour, then that afternoon I had a meeting at Central Office regarding the Early Childhood Initiative that the Board of Ed is working on. Monday night I had a Prudential Board Planning Meeting at church. Then Tuesday was regular day, except that I had to go and pick up Sean when he got sick at school. Tuesday night was the Kindergarten Readiness program at the elementary school (more about that later). Wednesday I had to stay home with Sean, so I miss both classes, then had to take Ahren to theater rehearsal and pick her up later. Today was back to a normal day. Tomorrow will hopefully be another normal day (with a special meeting at church in the evening and theater rehearsal for Ahren again.

The K Readiness program was interesting, and no, I don't have any children who will be attending K this fall. I was there for professional reasons. I want to make sure that the curriculum that we are following will be adequately preparing our students for K in the fall. They did a slide show of what the K day looks like and it was remarkably like our preschool day. We do a morning meeting letter, we do daily journaling, we do centers, and letter work, snack and outdoor play. The turn out of the program was really quite impressive too, and I'd have to say that probably a good half of the people there were from our preschool and almost everyone in my classes came up to me afterward and remarked that they were so happy that their children will have such a smooth transition to K in the fall. I was pretty pleased and it made me feel good having so many parents comment to nicely. Last year one of the other teachers really gave me a hard time, making things difficult and it caused me to doubt my abilities. I think it was more about her own insecurities that it was about me and my teaching skills. In any case, I was glad that I went to the program because it reinforced to me that I'm doing a good job.