Jaden's First Day of School

What a wonderful day today was!

Jaden started her first day today, at The Childhood League Center. I am so incredibly excited about the opportunities that this experience is going to afford her. Her teacher, assistant teacher, Speech therapist, Physical Therapist and Occupational therapist all seem terrific! I was honestly surprised when I actually saw all FIVE of them in the room with the EIGHT students! What a great student/teacher ratio - how could that not be an amazing benefit?

She was super excited about her cubby with her name on it! She had to hang it there all by herself. :-) And today was costume day (thus the pumpkin costume). They had gone on a pumpkin patch field trip last week, so the theme was carried into today. They not only dressed up, but they played with orange playdough with Halloween themed cookie cutters, played with a sensory table filled with black and orange strips of paper and plastic pumpkins! What fun they all had throwing it everywhere! lol

Jaden made me smile when she decided to take the small strips of paper, crumple them up and then hide them in the plastic pumpkins.

Then, the teachers/therapists took the kids "trick-or-treating" to the various classrooms and the front office area. Ms. Renee, her teacher, was a natural with Jaden.

After we got back to the classroom, I decided to leave and watch through the one-way mirror for a bit. After about 15 minutes, I felt pretty confident that she was doing well enough for me to go out to the parent waiting area, where I enjoyed about an hour of pleasure-reading! It has been a very LONG time since I have done that.

The last part of their day is going to the gym, which Jaden LOVES!!! Neither of us can wait for tomorrow!