Questions for Teacher Claire

In about an hour we will be meeting with Samuel's new preschool teacher for our first Parent - Teacher Conference.

Samuel is nervous about going to a new preschool this year, and we have had a few tears over leaving Teacher Mindy behind at the Observation Preschool.

When I told Samuel that we would be meeting with Teacher Claire today so that she could get to know us in order to know best what Samuel needed to learn this year, he started asking me a lot of questions about what preschool may or may not have.

Here is the compilation that Samuel had me write down to ask Teacher Claire so that we wouldn't forget:

1. Do kids have to wear shoes?
2. Do the mommies who are working wear cards around their necks?
3. What kind of balls do you have? Do you have a volleyball court?
4. Do you have baseball bats?
5. Do you have glue and scissors? Stickers? Watercolors? Markers? Paint?
6. Is there water to play with?
7. Is there a play kitchen?

Interestingly, there was no mention of cars or trucks. I'm not surprised Samuel didn't ask about a play structure, as last year at preschool, he did not go on the play structure a single time. But sports, kitchen and art projects are clearly the activities that interest him most. Noticeably, no mention of snacks, story time or music time.

Most notable to me, of course are the first two questions that inspired us to write down a list. First was appropriate dress. Not shockingly, the next thing he wanted to know had nothing to do with him, but was all about what the mommies (specifically me) would be doing when we were there, and how we would be identified. The "card around the neck" refers to how during preschool summer camp the moms all wore a card on a piece of yarn to tell them what their jobs for the day were.