Anna's preschool program

Anna just completed her first half of preschool this past friday. They had a fun program presentation for all the parents that day. Anna goes to preschool at the children's museum in town. It is an arts-based program so they do these incredible art projects. (That is one of the main reasons we chose this preschool for Anna). They have a kiln there in the building so they have made a few ceramic items, including a self portrait in clay. In addition to the art projects, they have dance once a week. This half of the year was ballet and starting in January it will be tap. Anyways, for their program they sang some cute little songs, but they also did some dances for us. They have been watching small segments of the nutcracker ballet in class once a week and they did a simple dance from the nutcracker suite. They danced to the Russian dance. It was a lot of fun. She has really enjoyed preschool, which has been quite a relief to us, since she initially was very resistive. She didn't love ballet though. She is looking forward to the change to tap. She was very nervous about performing in front of so many people. She was even in tears the night before, not wanting to go the next day. We talked her through it and put her teacher on alert to keep a special eye out for her, and she did it! We were so proud of her. We are hoping this preschool experience will make for a smoother transition to kindergarten next year.

Oh, I do have to mention as a little aside that the room mothers went a little crazy with the food for this little event. They had these two long tables filled with food. There were all sorts of ethnic foods made by some of the moms. We had food from the Phillipines (Lumpia), India (Samosa), Finland, fajitas wherever you want to say they are from, and a few others that I can't even remember. That doesn't include the regular cookies, punch, fruit kabobs, veggie tray. It was out of control!! But it was very yummy! They also had crafts for the kids to make and take home. It was crazy! What did I do to contribute you ask? I brought the veggie tray. That's about it. I also brought more kids than anyone else to enjoy the fun!!

We are so proud of Anna. We love her uniqueness. We love her desire to create beautiful things. We hope you enjoy some of the pictures of her at her program. We wish you could have seen her in person, but this will have to do.