The countdown is on - 19 days until the most exciting thing on the planet -KINDERGARTEN!! Jackson is begging me to make a chart so that he can start checking the days off until he can finally stop being bored and go to school. And finally today I can say, "let's do it!"
We found out this morning that Wooster Township Elementary is not taking open enrollment students this school year - which has it's good and bad for us - but at least our school bound student has a home! Jackson will be going to Kean Elementary School in the morning, which we are all very excited about! His teacher, Mr. Ickes, is a young teacher who took over the Kindergarten class at Kean for the first time last year. I hear that he is great, and I'm excited for Jackson to have a male teacher with so much enthusiasm! All the final sign-ups and formalities will happen next week and then we'll have a chance to meet Mr. Ickes and see the classroom with Jack before the 25th.
This week he is going through Safety Town - sponsored by the Wooster Kiwanis Club. So far he has learned about crossing safety, street rules, how to react to dog's you don't know, he was thrilled to sit in a "real police car and see a real police man - but she was a girl - and I'm not even kidding, mom!" I'm still wondering if he wasn't kidding about sitting in the car or about the policeman being a woman ;). I just smiled and hoped that would be the last time he'd be sitting in the back of that car - and excited about it!! Today he gets to meet the school crossing guards and learn bus rules as well as go on his first school bus ride. Thursday he'll be walking to the firehouse and the week will close with his graduation from Safety Town - too funny. He is so proud of what he is learning and enjoying seeing some of his preschool friends and meeting some new friends from Kean.
So, as we begin the journey that takes our first born to his first day of school I am, of course, sappy with sentiment. But just one conversation about what he might learn or meet or do is enough to set any sap on her butt and catch the bug of excitement that is shining in our son's eyes.
2 comments:
Wow! Kindergarten already. He'll have so much fun. And yes...expect to cry when he gets on the bus the first day. But you'll love hearing all about his day when he gets home.
LOVE the picture. Wow, your big guy will be in kindergarten. I bet you can't believe it, but boy does he sound ready. How exciting for him and how nerve-wrackingly-sentimentally-proud-ful for you. :)
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