Audrey's First Day of Joy School

Audrey started Joy School today! She was so excited, since her big sister started school last week. Audrey still has 2 years before kindergarten. This year we'll do Joy School (which is a mommy-based preschool with several friends from church) and next year we'll enroll her in a local Pre-School to get her used to a teacher and classroom setting. I'm really excited about Audrey's Joy School group this year. There's Audrey, Laci, Ashley, Caleb, and Wade. It's a good number of kids and I like the fact that I only have teach once every five weeks. We are focusing on the alphabet, colors, shapes, and numbers. Obviously within doing those items they'll learn about a lot of other things. They meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays for 2 1/2 hours. Two of the other mothers live right in our neighborhood, so Audrey likes to walk to Joy School when we're going to one of their houses, since Rachel also gets to walk to school. So, on Audrey's first day of Joy School we walked to Wade's house. 

Here's a few pictures:

Audrey wanted me to get a picture of her backpack (she's very proud of her initials):

Audrey with her escort:

On the way there we ran into this rabbit, which Audrey was very excited about:

I'm excited to see Audrey learn and grow this year. She's already learned so much this past summer, thanks to her sister. They love to play school. Audrey can write her name correctly most of the time, every once in awhile she makes a b instead of a d. She can recognize all her letters and numbers already (thank you, Rachel, for being such a good teacher). Audrey can count to 30. The other day she insisted on drawing a picture for her Primary teacher. She wrote "MorTon" all by herself. I just had to help her with her n. She surprised me by asking me if an M was an upside W. Kind of an different way to look at it... I think I always thought a W was an upside down M. Anyhow, I'm excited to see how much Audrey will continue to learn this year. She definitely loves to learn and she's a little sponge!