David starts Pre-K tomorrow! Here in Florida it's a state funded program, so everything is very 'official' including mandatory attendance and no being late! David also turns 4 on Wednesday. Today we went and bought underwear that are way.too.big in hopes that he can pull them up on his own. He needs to be able to go to the bathroom at pre-k on his own because the teacher can't go with the child to assist them. He can do everything except pull up the undies. We had to buy expensive (though they were are on super sale at gymboree because we got lucky and it was tax free weekend) mall underwear because the character brand that you find at walmart/target are just so tight in the waist band even in the larger sizes.
We are working SO hard to get him to accomplish this! It seems like all the other kids don't have a problem, but I have to remind myself he is the youngest- if he had been born 2 weeks later he would be in one grade lower!
We did have open-house/orientation Friday were we got to see the classroom and meet his teacher, Ms. Julie. She showed us the goals for learning this year and I was pretty surprised because David knows almost all of them. The ones he can do include, recognizing capital and lower case letters, recognizing numbers through 20 (he can count past 100- but can only recognize up to 20 that I know of), recognizing colors, recognizing shapes. The ones he needs work on are cutting, writing his first name and writing his last name.
He is so very excited and looking forward to Pre-K. I hope he loves it as much as he thinks he is going to!
