Oxford Academy Preschool

Here are her classmates.Her teacher was Miss Tina, now it is Miss Krista. 

Sonia (top left) and Brooke both moved to the Primary classroom together. 

Brooke is really having a good experience at her preschool.  It was an adjustment when she moved from the Toddler classroom to the Primary classroom full-time in January.  But, she is doing well. She still gets upset at drop-off time in the morning, but once I leave she is fine. She is having some potty accidents lately, not sure what's going on there??  We will keep encouraging her.  
Since I had this week off for my Winter Break and Brooke had school, I scheduled a "parent observation" on Thursday  morning and it was very interesting to watch how the chidren interact and "work" Montessori style!  I noticed Brooke would not stay on one given "work task" for very long.  She moved around a lot, but it seemed to be ok.  The teachers didn't ever tell her "no", she was allowed to make as many choices as she wanted.  She started at the painting area and painted an American flag.  Then, she went and got a rug and unrolled it on the floor.  She went to a shelf and grabbed a triangle puzzle.  She worked on that and couldn't figure it out.  So, Miss Krista sat with her and showed her how to connect the sides of the four little triangles to make one big triangle.  Her expression was priceless when she could do it on her own!  Then, she put the puzzle away, rolled up her rug and put it back in the basket.  Then, she went walking around looking for her next choice.  She stopped to talk to a little boy for a minute and then went onto getting a rug again.  She put it in another area by a shelf and started building with wooden rods.  She put them from thickest to thinnest on her rug.  Then, she added another set of cube-like wooden blocks.  She stacked them on top of the rods. She did that for about 20 minutes, that was the longest stretch of time I saw her work on one thing.  I only observed (through a peephole in the window) about an hour.  I was not able to take any photos because Brooke did not know I was there.   We just received her school composite, so I will add that so you can see her classmates and teachers.