First Day of 3’s Preschool!!!

Although Elias went to preschool last year for the pre-3’s, it is still a big milestone for him to start 3’s preschool! He is going to Prince of Peace Preschool, and he goes twice a week now! Mrs. Kimball is his teacher again, and he is absolutely thrilled. We have been anticipating the start of preschool for awhile now. We got to go in and see the classroom one on one with Mrs. Kimball. Then last week we had the open house where he got to meet his new friends. Elias even got some homework to complete before the first day of class.

Here he is completely his first homework:

It was tricky at first to get Elias to think of specific things to draw. He just wanted to scribble away like he normally does. He was supposed to draw things that are special about him. They will be displayed in the classroom and eventually made into a class book. He drew himself, Simon in a mask, Daddy, baseball, swimming, his sweater, and a couple of other things. I labeled them for him. All in all it was a fun project.

Yesterday morning was Elias’ actual first day of school. He was very excited and cooperated very nicely for these pictures. I’ve wanted to take first day of school pictures pretty much since before he was born, so I was very happy he was excited about it too.

When we got to class, I had wanted to get a picture of Elias and Mrs. Kimball, but he ran in too fast without even saying goodbye, sat down at the play-doh table with his friends, and got started playing.

When I went to pick Elias up from school, I got the picture I had hoped for.

Elias said his favorite part of his first day was painting a bear and singing “pass the apple”. He also told me that he played outside because it wasn’t raining, Gavin passed him the apple, and Elias passed it to Johan, and Mrs. Kimball gave them crackers and fruit snacks but he didn’t eat any fruit snacks. It was a great first day of 3’s preschool!