First Day of Preschool

Well, it may be the end of the day, but I can finally use the computer.. Today , Thomas started preschool ...He was soo excited! all week long he was saying " I want to go to preschool! I want to go to school"!He was even saying, " I want a Power Rangers backpack!" Please I have a Power Rangers backpack?" So I ordered him one on Ebay to make him feel special. I can't believe my baby's getting so big that he's off to school already! where'd my baby go?* WAHH!* Anyway, it seems like a very good school. it teaches reading and math and algebraeic thinking listening and speaking,number sense,concepts and operationswriting and literatureand language skillsand measurement and geometry and spatial sense. I was man! when i went to kindergarden we took naps and learned about the alphabet and numbersand days of the week and such! I didnt learn half this till 1st grade!or more! my kids gonna be smarter than me by 2nd grade! hes gonna be teaching ME!Anyway, he had a blast and can't wait to go back, teacher says he has to work on his following directions-whatever that was-I didn't think to ask for an example like a dummy-I guess I'll ask friday when he goes back- { goes 3 times a week -Mon, Wed, Fri- 9-12-55.00a week}Yes it is alot to learn huh? I thought so ! They space it out through the week and days through both play and formal currriculum- like learning opposites say this week by cutting and pasting pictures of opposites like the sun and moon and the front of a person and back. and an elephant and a mouse being big and small and a facy pot and a plain pot-things like that- next week theyll learn counting by placing hearts and putting the correct number underneath the number of corrlating hearts that belongs to them-things like that-and yes he had a great time.he recieved his power rangers backpack today and was walking around the house with it and didnt want to take it off- too cute! The structured school environment will be really good for him since he was never in daycare. The social environment will really help prepare him for when he goes to kindergarten since I've been home with him since he was born.Thing is I never know what to do with myself when he's gone for as soon as hes gone I can't get too involved in anything because before I know it it's time to pick him up already! So I water the plants, take a shower, do a little reading, catch up on some housework, then pick him up!Funny how its only 3 hours but I still miss him- its like this void is there- what am I gonna feel like when he's gone all day? Time to go back to work so I don't go crazy missing him! LOL