school orientation 2008

School orientation: Today was “orientation” at school which is essentially a meet-and-greet with the teacher and half of the class for 1 hour. The twins will attend the same preschool as last year only with a new teacher and 3 half-days per week instead of 2, so we are all pretty blasé about the whole thing. I had driven almost all of the way to the school when I realized that I’d forgotten my camera, so we drove all the way home to get it and then were 10 minutes late. Last year all the parents had cameras and many of the kids had both parents in attendance. This year I was the only parent with a camera. In the class of 14 there is one girl in their class who was in their class last year and one other girl that Chloe was friends with from waiting in the hall to be picked up after school. Also in their class is another set of twins. Their teacher this year seems friendlier and more proactive than the one last year, so I’m hoping that the kids like school better this year. At orientation Alex and Chloe played with many of the classroom toys and I facilitated some introductions to the other students. It seems that kids at this age are a little more interactive with each other rather than engaging in the “parallel play” that they did last year. The twins were very excited to see what the “class pet” is. There are 3 fish. Chloe took the initiative to ask the teacher if she could feed the fish and was rewarded for her efforts. The other kids were disappointed that they hadn’t been the first ones to think to ask.