preschool progress

[psocoptera]

Junie said earlier in the week that she would try staying at school for naptime on Friday - she wanted to back out this morning, but we encouraged her to try it, and in fact she apparently a) got sad when I wasn't there after lunch, but did not melt down entirely and b) slept! She was a little trembly when I first got there after nap but she quickly cheered up, eagerly selected her stickers at home and put them on her chart, and agrees that she'll do it again on Tuesday. We are probably overpraising her but we actually are proud and impressed.

Also she spent like an hour this afternoon drawing sticker charts for me and Bert and Ernie and giving us stickers from the general sticker supply (mostly stuff that's come free in beg mail; the ones for her chart are some special ones we picked out at the store). Sometimes it is kind of intimidating that I spent like 30 seconds drawing the most half-assed rudimentary sticker chart ever (six leaf shapes on which to stick animal stickers, and then she gets this puzzle my sister gave her like a year ago that I recently re-found in the closet) and to Junie this is like, the Platonic form of the sticker chart, the Gospel of sticker charts, the thing she must carefully imitate (copying loopy leaf shapes and haphazard distribution on the page). I mean, it's not even that she thinks I'm cool, it's that she *has no idea there's anything else*.

Comments

[mst3kforall.livejournal.com]

What does her sticker chart chart?

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

Staying at school for nap. She's in an all-day program but has so far only been going mornings. We're hoping to get her up to the full day before the sibling is here.

[mst3kforall.livejournal.com]

That's a really positive, wonderful way to do it.