Look Out Kindergarten, Here Comes EVAN!!

It is still a bit hard for me to grasp the fact that my little boy is about to turn 5 in a couple of weeks and is heading off for Kindergarten in September. A few weeks ago, I had to take Evan to the new school for Kindergarten Screening.  It was just me, him and a reading teacher in a small room, and she asked him several questions involving the identification of letters, numbers and colors, etc. He did really well but suddenly became very shy when she asked if he could count to 20. He said he couldn't (which I knew wasn't the case), but the teacher then said "How about counting to 10?" So he did, and then he kept going to 25. :) After the testing, I took him to McDonald's for a Mother-Son lunch and then dropped him back off at pre-school. 

 

The next day, the school had Orientation for the new Kindergarten students and their parents. Tom and I both went to this with Evan but as soon as we arrived, the kids were instructed to sit on the gym floor together and the parents were directed to sit in chairs in the back. I already started to feel a bit of separation anxiety, and I think Evan did too until he saw his friend Sabrina from pre-school. She came and sat next to him and then he was just fine. The soon-to-graduate Kindergarteners at the school put on a song presentation and then each current Kindergartener came and took the hand of a new student and lead them to a Kindergarten class while the parents stayed in a gym. Then at some point, they went from the classroom onto a schoolbus and took a short ride around the neighborhood. Evan says his bus actually went down our street! He had a great time but his parents are still adjusting! :)