Preschool

Yesterday Rachel had her last day of preschool for the year. She had a great time this year and loved her class and her teacher, Mrs. Caffrey (who also I also happen to visit teach, and she's the primary president). 

 They had a party for the last day and sang a couple of songs to us, including Yankee Doodle, complete with hats with a feather stuck in it. 

They got to wear cute graduation hats and were presented with a class photo and a packet of some of the work they've done throughout the year.

 

Comparing Rachel's work from the beginning of the year (ABC) and the end of the year (XYZ) you an tell she did improve and got apparently got faster, since she had time to doodle or color rainbows or whatever when she finished the letter practice.

 

Her end of the year evaluation (I'm not good at keeping things, or scrapbooking or anything, and I figure our blog book is the only documentation we'll probably have of Rachel's preschool accomplishments in the long term):

Her teacher wrote "Rachel did so great this year! It's fun to see her reading! She is a great friend to others, and is always very kind and good at sharing. She is a hard worker, and tries hard to do her best. I have loved teaching Rachel!"

And I'm glad we farmed her out to a teacher rather than doing a co-op preschool with other moms around here because Rachel takes direction and correction much better from other people than from me and tries to do her best for her teacher, whereas with me it's more of a power struggle. We're proud of Rachel and glad she loved preschool!