minimunchkin: All About Ryan

A Day in the Life of a Pre-Schooler

This post is a little out of sequence as I started it before Mia's unexpected, early arrival ...

Ryan has been attending Woodlands International Pre-School for over two months now. So far he seems to be enjoying it and looks forward to seeing playing with his friends each day. However, of course there are still days when he wakes up and cries, " I want to stay home with you Mama" when we try to get him dressed and ready for school. But thank goodness, there are less and less of those days now. We've settled into a comfortable routine, Shad wakes Ryan up and gets him dressed, we eat breakfast together, I drive the little fellow to school then go run my errands, pick him up from school three hours later then head home for lunch. So far, we've been pretty happy with the Woodlands system, and impressed with the processes that they have in place. The crucial thing for us is that there seems to be a lot of importance placed on parental involvement, and the kids seem genuinely happy while they're at the school.

Dress Up Day...

The classroom of terror...!

Halloween day at school - in costume
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Mama's contribution to the Halloween party - mini chicken puffs

Morning Tea with the Kids...

The school organised a one-hour session one morning for the parents to join the kids in their classroom. Sitting on those itsy bitsy kiddy chairs, we watched the kids go through their daily activities - circle time, story time, Mandarin lesson and snack time.

Average attention span of 27sec
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Ryan and his buddy Samuel having a snack

Ryan and Daddy taking a break during the "Kids in Motion" exercise session

Daddy regressing to Kinder'

Ryan came home one day with a huge bite mark on his face, a result of a "toy sharing incident" (as his teachers called it). While Mama and Daddy were concerned (which resulted in a conversation with his teachers), Ryan did not seem too affected by the whole incident and went to school the following day with just as much enthusiasm as any other day, except this time armed with some self defence moves :)

Battle scars (not a love bite, sadly)

During the last few weeks of my pregnancy, we tried to spend as much time doing "fun things" (as he calls it) with Ryan, letting him choose the activities himself. Each time we had a blast whether it was going out to the park or doing arts and craft at home.