3rd Week of preschool for Hope

I should mention, Hope goes to preschool Mon-Thursday from 8-11. On Friday's she get's picked up and transported to and from school for a 30 minute speech session. She doesn't like that too well...it's hard work!

This is another note from Mrs. Otto:

"Hope did such an awesome job cutting today! She cut out a red sled. Tomorrow and Th. we'll add animals to go with the story. She wants to bring it home, but it will go up in the hallway until after conferences. She even corrected another little girl when she said "me" instead of "I" today! Hurrah for Hoper!We passed Kiyah's kindergarten class today, and one of the little boys said, "Hey! There's a baby Kiyah!" Oh, my gosh, it was so funny!"

Mommy notes: One of the many things I've begun to notice about Hope is that she is much more calm and her emotions and behavior are much more in check these days. Hardly a temper tantrum to be had (minor, but not like they used to). I attribute this to the stimulation she's getting with the OT and the work she's doing in school. She is learning to control things and her gross motor stills are becoming more mature...she still craves movement though...so we do lots of spinning (not the exercise craze, but good old spinning in circles).

Hope's first few days of preschool(ECSE)

Hope started preschool (Early Childhood Special Education) on Monday, January 16th. She is in Mrs. Otto's morning class (for those that picked up on it, yes, that's Hope's gramma). We didn't know how that was going to go...here is a note from the first few days

"Hope may try to tell you she didn't get the snack helper job she wanted today. She cried hard right before going into language group, but settled down and did join the group. It's a hard lesson every kid learns when starting school! I think she was less happy today----she's figuring out that she can't just play--and the kids often feel they don't get enough play time! She did a great job completing her projects--we colored and put 5 buttons on a coat, and then cut out parts of a ship and added 5 dots for portholes. She really gets the concept stuff. She is also working hard at learning to use alternate arms and legs when doing the alligator crawl."

Hope