Nursery Initiation
23 Jun 2010 Leave a Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: children, nursery
So many milestones of K have gone undocumented. The intention to do it has always been strong, but the mind has other ideas. I did not want to let yet another milestone go past without a mention, so I am getting down to it straightaway.
Today, I took K to see the new nursery that she will start in September. This new nursery is attached to a primary school, so the plan is that she will continue her schooling there. It is a girl’s school (which is a separate post, in its own right – our choice of school), close to where we live.
K loved the school. This was her first visit and I could sense that she enjoyed it thoroughly. The room was large, bright, cheery and so colourful. It had almost the same toys that she has in her current nursery, but there was something very bright, cheerful and welcoming about the new place.
I was rather concerned about how she would react and if she would even speak to anybody. I need not have worried. One of the boy’s (in her current nursery) mum Mrs M works in the new place and K remembered her. K ran up to her and started talking to her, while I stayed in the sidelines, taking my surroundings in. I chatted with a few other mums, read all the charts put up, wandered to the school office to clarify a few points and K was fine all along. She painted for a while, played with sand, leafed through a book, pretending to read, and so much more. She chatted with her new friends, existing nursery children, teachers without a care in the world.
This was such a change from the first time she ever went to the nursery that it is hard for me to not feel anything but pride. I really hope she is very happy there.
The children are divided into groups – (i think) randomly for activities and smaller group playtime. She is in the blue house and will wear a blue T-shirt everyday, over her school uniform. I cannot tell you how happy I was to discover that she is in the blue house because if she wasn’t, to have to explain to her that she has to wear another colour would be impossible. This is because K adores blue. If there was a choice, all her toys/clothes/books/bags would be blue. The world would be blue, for that matter. It has always been in her case. And Mrs M is the key-worker for the blue house and I am so so glad.
It was an hour’s visit and I had a hard time getting her to leave – she enjoyed it so much. Fingers crossed it always stays like that.
