Preschool is Fun!

Ellery is having so much fun at preschool! She has attended 4 days of class now. She is learning a lot, and has already completed a homework assignment! Ms. Melinda is one of Ellery's teachers from last year, so that helped make what seems to be an smooth transition into a new classroom even easier! Ellery walked right in the first day and never looked back, and she has been ready to go to school every day!

She is thrilled to grab her pink butterfly backpack and her butterfly garden lunchbox on the way out the door!

Ellery can identify many letters. She can say her numbers to 25 and can count objects to 12. She knows all of her colors (getting brown and black confused occasionally). She knows circle, triangle and square shapes.

She is so curious about nature right now. She loves to find squirrels and birds. She is great at spotting other things, too. She can see an airplane from so far away that it takes a minute to come into my view. She has always been the first to see a balloon, and on our trip to TX this summer, I don't think she missed any United States flags!

Ellery is awesome in her play! She can play very well with others and also by herself. I often hear her talking away upstairs either while reading books or while engaged in pretend play.

Ellery is very independent but also very grateful when she receives help if it is needed. She has excellent manners and almost always says "please" and "thank you." She can get dressed all by herself, and she and Kiran take turns feeding Rocky (then running around the house chasing him). :)

Ellery loves to sing songs and is great at picking up a tune and lyrics quickly to sing along. This is perfect for her music class! She always comes home from school telling about music and sign language and shows me the stamp she received in class.

This is Ellery's recent homework assignment. Pretty funny story actually . . .

This year, her teachers are assigning family homework to provide a chance for everyone to work with Ellery on her projects. The first assignment was to design and dress a "little person" (contact paper in the shape of a child) just like Ellery. We did great until it was time for the face. I tried drawing eyes, and Jeff attempted the nose. Let's just say it was so bad that I found another piece of paper that was as close as possible to the original and cut out a round face to paste over our first tries. We may have some talents in this house, but Mom and Dad are no artists! I then looked online for help with drawing children's faces, and it turned out much better. Thanks for being sweet about it Ellery! I think she was relieved to see the second attempt as the first one looked a little like a scary creature from a freaky movie!

Anyway, back to Ellery. Our sweet girl is so calm and confident about school each day! What a blessing!

With Daddy and Livvy on the first day of preschool

With Mommy (who obviously was making lunches and a mess!)

I have missed both of my kids while they are at school, but I absolutely LOVE picking them up and hearing about their adventures! Then, Daddy can't wait to hear when he gets home! Life with kids is simply amazing!

Okay, now THIS is the way to celebrate the end of a wonderful first day of school for all these kiddos! (Malon, Kiran, Fern, Baylan, Ellery, and Livvy)

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Kiran (with vanilla - his favorite right now!), Baylan, Foust

Fern and Ellery (with cookie dough)