August 22, 2014

First Day of Preschool 2014

Audrena started preschool today. Her IEP team has a big year planned for her, and hopefully it will bring great things. Audrena will attend the "regular" preschool in the morning, then speech, lunch, recess, and Early Childhood preschool in the afternoon. She has a wonderful SLP-A (Speech-Language Pathologist's Assistant) who will be with her during the school day this year. We are so excited for all of the language learning and wonderful progress that she should make this school year! We are very thankful for a good school district with dedicated professionals as well.

This morning we arrived at school, took the obligatory "first day" picture in front of the school's sign, and barged into the SLP's office. Audrena loves her, and that's the first place she wants to go when she gets to school, whether she should be going to speech or not. So the SLP walked with us to take big brother Kelton to his kindergarten classroom and then on to the preschool room. Audrena saw her Early Childhood teacher and thought she should go right into that classroom. We had to explain that she has a new classroom in the morning. Once we were in the door, she found the ramp and a toy car, gave me a dismissive wave and a quick, "Bye bye!" That was it. She wouldn't even turn toward me for a quick picture. The SLP-A offered to take a picture later and send it to me, but I had what I really needed...a happy girl on her first day of school.