Friday, July 10, 2009

Wild Man's school

Wild Man will be moving up to a preschool room at the first of the month, and he'll begin visiting his new room next week. We found this out yesterday, and C and I are both very relieved. To make things even better, Wild Man will be moving into the same room as both T and D, and his teacher will be Michelle, who used to be his teacher in his current room. He loves Michelle, and he still goes out of his way to talk to her whenever he sees her. This will make the transition much easier on him. After talking with the directors, it seems their concerns were different than ours. They felt Wild Man was ready to move up, but they didn't want to add extra stress on him with Z just having arrived. I pointed out that Wild Man seemed a bit out of sorts without his best buddies; leaving him in a toddler room may be as stressful as moving him up. Thus far, he is adjusting well to his friends' absences, and he is even playing really well with the younger children, which makes me feel better. So it worked out for the best!

3 comments:

Lilian said...

What a relief!

Anonymous said...

I'm so glad. But it's strange that they didn't mention this part of their motivation when you originally talked with the school, isn't it?

M said...

Well, C can be a bit unapproachable when he is annoyed, and I'm not certain he talked to the director. I think he talked to one of the admin assistants, so she may not have known the reason why Wild Man wasn't moved.