I officially registered him for Kindergarten last week. What a pain filling out all those forms! You’d think he was buying a house. When I was handing in our forms, Peter was with me and he grabbed a sticky note and pen from the counter and wrote his first, middle and last name and handed it to the lady. Ha! If only it was that simple.

A lot of the schools in our district have lotteries for enrollment but thankfully our school isn’t one of them…maybe that is a bad sign. Well anyway I’m hoping Peter gets into the morning class (instead of afternoon) but we won’t know until June. The morning class will start at 8:20am so I’m not looking forward to waking up even earlier. Other than that I think I’m more excited about Kindergarten than Peter. Peter’s attitude is more like ‘it’s all good.’

Meanwhile…back in Preschool, Peter is now taking his first art class once a week. He stays at school for lunch and then I pick him up after art class finishes in the afternoon. He’s doing pretty good in the class. I’m surprised he will sit still and concentrate for the 45mins.

First drawing of a bird eating a worm:

Peter is enjoying eating lunch at school even if it’s just one day a week. I’m enjoying the extra 2hrs it gives me. It does feel weird having him gone for 5hrs though.

One thing his Preschool hasn’t been preparing him for Kindergarten is reading. So I’m starting to teach Peter to read. I guess I should’ve done it sooner but I didn’t want to frustrate him. He’s been able to read words here and there on his own so I’m just pushing it a little further. He’s doing pretty good so far with basic rhyming words. I guess maybe that is how you’re supposed to learn anyway. Hopefully he’ll improve his reading skills as well within the next 6 months.