Pre-School: Step Two, Open House

Well, we survived Open House.  As you can see below, Hunter was NOT excited about going...

...until he saw all the other kids happily toting their backpacks and school supplies in!  He ran in WAY ahead of us and plopped down in a pew.  The director did a little introduction and then called the classes off and away the kids headed with their teacher's to their new classrooms.  

Below, Hunter is waiting with his new classmates and teacher!
After the kids left the parents stayed with the Director and talked about some of the "boring" stuff.  Early dismissals, snow days, snacks, etc.  After we were dismissed we got to join our kids in their classrooms!  

Below, is Hunter's hook for his backpack.  ps - that is not the real back pack that he is going to use this year.  His is at the embroider shop getting his initials on it...but this one worked for tonight!

We didn't get to talk to his teacher at all.  I was rather disappointed with that.  We could've stayed around and waited, but she was having some rather lengthy discussions with some parents that she obviously already knew.  One of his teacher's wasn't even there tonight...again, rather disappointed, but I'm keeping my head up.  I want to give this whole school thing a fair shot before I become judgmental!

Here is Hunter sitting in his seat at one of the two tables in the classroom.  He was excited to have a name tag at his seat!
The "theme" this year is Veggie Tales, and here are all the kids buckets...I'm assuming for their school supplies.  None of them were in there, so I'm not real sure what they did with them, but they were all gone out of his backpack, so they must've put them somewhere...  Hunter's is on the bottom row, second from the left.  

Overall, it was a good evening.  I do wish I could've at least introduced myself to his teacher and talked a little bit with her.  I do wish I could've at least seen the other teacher.  I do wish the Director had seemed more welcoming to the idea of volunteers in the school.  I do wish Hunter would tell me what they did when they got to his classroom.  

But it's going to be okay.  This is a Christian pre-school that has been around for 20+ years.  It came highly recommended.  I'm going to give it a shot.  Hunter seems excited about it.  He told us on the way home that "I was wrong about pre-school, it's going to be fun!"  As long as it's an environment that follows suit with what we believe at home, and he is having fun, I think we'll be okay!