School News

Andrea's fighting a cold this week so I took Fiona to school this morning. I hadn't dropped her off in over a month, and it was an amazing difference. When she walked in the door one of her friends, David, instantly started shouting "It's Fiona! Fiona's here!" as he ran around to the other kids letting them know Fiona had arrived.

Then, after a hug for Daddy as I helped her out of her raincoat and boots, Miss Eny called out "where's my hug?" and Fiona ran across the room to embrace her teacher with nary a glance back at me.

Miss Eny is very impressed with Fiona's ability to draw letters. This week they're learning about the letter "C" and Fiona wanted to write the word "cat." She tried copying the word on the page, but she got very frustrated because she couldn't make the lower case "a". So Miss Eny covered up the word and told her to draw the letter the way she knows. Fiona wrote the word "CAT" in all upper case, which her teacher found very impressive.

Yesterday, Miss Eny helped Fiona make the letter "N", which is always the letter in her name that she's had the hardest time doing by herself (most of the time she writes out "FIO" and then asks us to hold her hand with her to draw the "N", before she does the "A" herself). When I picked Fiona up, the first thing she told me was that she drew letter N. And then when we got home, she ran full speed into the house to tell her mommy that she drew an N at school and announced that she wanted to practice more.

That's par for the course: when I come home and Andrea's waiting, Fiona rushes to show her whatever exercise she did in school that day so that we can put it up on her bulletin board.

So school is going well. On the weekends Fiona likes to pretend to be Miss Eny, welcoming us to the class by singing the song I'm assuming the kids sing every day:

Welcome to school today
Welcome to school today
Welcome to school today
We are here to learn and play...