Pre-School Dropouts...
Wednesday, April 05 2006 Filed in: Pre-School
Kai and I have been skipping out of preschool. We're
preschool dropouts!
Not really, we still go, but only for the first hour of free choice activity at the beginning. We weren't behaving very well for circle, so now we're ducking out early. I feel strongly about not rushing Kai into things. He has a lot of catching up to do, but I want to let him do it at his own pace. Besides, he's not really old enough chronologically (let alone developmentally) for this group.
So, what do we do when we skip out? We go play! Just down the hill from the preschool is Boulevard Park, which is right on Bellingham Bay. I love the bay, it's very sheltered and on calm days it's just like a big lake. But it's salt water and has tides. If you were to sail out of it into Puget Sound, you could keep on going right out through the Strait of Juan De Fuca to the Pacific Ocean. Heck, you could probably sail right on to China if you knew what you were doing! I have no idea what I'm doing and don't even have a rowboat, so we kick around the shoreline and throw rocks in the water. Here's a couple more wonky photos I grabbed with the cell phone...
Not really, we still go, but only for the first hour of free choice activity at the beginning. We weren't behaving very well for circle, so now we're ducking out early. I feel strongly about not rushing Kai into things. He has a lot of catching up to do, but I want to let him do it at his own pace. Besides, he's not really old enough chronologically (let alone developmentally) for this group.
So, what do we do when we skip out? We go play! Just down the hill from the preschool is Boulevard Park, which is right on Bellingham Bay. I love the bay, it's very sheltered and on calm days it's just like a big lake. But it's salt water and has tides. If you were to sail out of it into Puget Sound, you could keep on going right out through the Strait of Juan De Fuca to the Pacific Ocean. Heck, you could probably sail right on to China if you knew what you were doing! I have no idea what I'm doing and don't even have a rowboat, so we kick around the shoreline and throw rocks in the water. Here's a couple more wonky photos I grabbed with the cell phone...
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