"I am too absolutely small for school"
well, perhaps in stature, but come September 2 Piper will be toting her Charlie & Lola schoolbag to her new pre-school, 2 days a week..2.5 hours a day...woohoo!
Last week her new teacher Mrs Chabot came to visit Piper at HOME! I've never ever ever heard of home visits, but it was rather sweet, and they played and talked about pre-school for about 40 minutes so that Piper would feel 'comfortable' going to school. Piper has read Charlie & Lola's book about going to school(title above) for the past two years and is well and truly primed...but watch her, she will quote little sayings from the book like "I am a little bit slightly nervous to go to school"...complete balderdash, she is stoked, she even says "Alligators are for fancy, for school, stripes are nice"...can anyone say "and the Emmy goes to...", our little soap star is 100% DRAMA...all the time! I do hope Mrs Chabot doesn't get too cross with all her 'acting'. the only thing Mummy is a bit sad about is no schooliform(yet another C&L reference!)
Today we even got a postcard from her teacher telling Piper how excited she is to have her in her class...hello...sweet!
We also signed Piper up for a separate Chinese Immersion pre-school that is 2 hours per week...Piper has been making up her own languages lately, and absorbs everything French, Spanish and Mandarin she hears...at the dinner table the other night she was talking to her blueberries in "blueberryfrench"..it went something like this.
"Bonjour blueberry...I am going to eat you..oui oui oui!"
Let me tell you...this isnt because her parents are Rhodes Scholars, this is because the girl DEVOURS books, and we read lots of them, from Fancy Nancy to Grimms Fairy Tales! She has been sneaking our Steinbeck novels from the bookcase in the last week and will sit staring at the words(no she cannot read yet) for 15 minutes at a time! I don't know what she is doing, Tortilla Flats isnt exactly a picture book! I think she wants to look like she is reading like Mum & Dad! Weird kid!
5 comments:
Oh I feel like a gushing auntie- SO excited for her :O)
I always knew you were a secret Rhodes scholar!
Wow she'll be reading to Paisley in no time:) That's great about the Chinese immersion. Keeva has been in a full time French immersion program for a year now and boy do they learn fast. Tip on the school bag. The shoulder strap is really long and a trip hazard good idea to attach it to the inside of the bag and only use the back pack straps. Can't wait to see those first day photos.
Steinbeck? Cool. So what books will you be slipping onto the bookshelf hoping she spots next?
Of course your daughter will be starting college at age 7, right? She smart AND beautiful!!!
The teacher sounds AMAZING!!! Can't wait to hear how it goes! Kieren starts preschool in just over a week. She'll go Mon-Thurs 12:10-2:40. She is sooooooo excited!!!!
My son was in Montessori school from Preschool-2nd Grade. They start teaching French in Preschool! It's amazing how quickly they can pick things up!
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