First Day of Preschool Take 1

Lincoln is going to two different preschools this year. I'm feeling a little bit like a crazy mom, but even with two schools he is in school half as much time as he was last year. Last year he went M-F from 1-5, so 20 hours a week. Each of the schools he's going to this year are 5 hours a week. I hope this works well for him.

Today was his first day of school for the preschool through the school district. This is where he will receive his therapies from his IEP.

He was a little bit nervous, so all I got was a fake smile.


When we pulled up to the school he was confused. We've talked a lot about how he is going to go to two schools this year, and we've driven by this school but they didn't do a meet the teacher or anything like that, so he insisted this wasn't his school. (the other school did have a meet the teacher day, so he knows that school) So he asked me to take a picture with him.


When we got inside he had to move his name from the house picture to the school picture.


We got inside the class and he did great, until they told him that his options for "starting activity" were stringing beads or playdough. He wanted to play in the dress-up area. And it was a problem complete with every avoidance technique Lincoln knows. And he knows a LOT of them. He pretended that he couldn't hear me, he cried, he tried bargaining, he ran away, he hid, he cried, he tried to distract both me and his teacher, he tried to pretend like he was going to the bead area and sneak to the dress-ups, he tried everything. Eventually I let him take one hat and sit at the bead area. I'm sure his teacher didn't love that, but he was sitting down where they wanted him to. And the second he sat down they started playing the clean up song. I left the room, and when I looked through the window he was back in the dress-up area. Hopefully the rest of the day went better. Change is REALLY hard for him.