Lydia's had an awesome preschool experience. She loved her teacher last year and loves her teacher this year. She had a moment this year where she started crying because she missed her class from last year. We talked about it and I encouraged her to enjoy the time she spent with Ms Bonnie and her class because once school let out she wouldn't be able to go back. She said she'd do her best.
This was her last day of class with a program later that evening. Lydia did her part well. She asked, "do you know how many months there are in a year?" And a classmate answered, "it's more than I can count on my fingers!" The class then sang a song with all the months in the year. Lydia was so cute up there, but she got some serious stage fright. We could hear say her part and we knew that she was singing during the songs, but she was the only one up there who wouldn't do the actions. Jon and I asked her about it and she said that she was shy, and that everybody would laugh at her if she did them. Also, she has Jon and me for parents. That might have something to do with it...
Lydia liked coloring in preschool. She's made incredible progress in both her coloring and her writing, among other things. I'm super impressed with her penmanship and she and I have had some fun with word families. She's great at coming up with -an words and -op words, and -ill words to name a few. Ms Bonnie did all sorts of fun things and even sent each student home with a collection of recipes they cooked during the school year. One of the big things they did was make passports and travel all over the world. I loved Lydia coming home and telling us how to say hello and goodbye in Japanese, German, Portuguese and other languages. She says she's really really going to miss drawing with Ms Bonnie. And she's going to miss her friends too.
Oh, the crippling shyness! It's the worst! And the irrational fear that people are judging you. It starts so young! And she can write! Kids these days, so on top of it.
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