Pre-K Questions!!

It’s hard he will get used to going though and I’m sure he will have lots of fun!!! He may cry at first but he will be ok and it’s good for him to be in school!! My son just turned 3 few weeks ago and missed his whole year of daycare in 2020 as a 2 year old. he just started doing soccer. And I’m going to put him into a camp this summer. They need to be around kids.

My kids had both been in daycare for quite a while before COVID but we then kept them out for the last year due to a high risk family member. We just sent them both back today! My daughter is 2 and then there is my July baby. We talked and talked about how much they were going to learn, how they would get to make friends and play with them, how school would have new toys and fun things to do, the art projects and that they get to go on the playground twice a day. They were mostly excited the last few days before, but we had many days before that they didn’t want to go. They wanted us to be with them and just last night my July babe was sad because he said he wanted to stay home and be with his sister still. My daughter had to be carried in crying this morning and my son eventually walked in by himself, but he was pretty nervous and reluctant when we first got there. But today went awesome and they both were nothing but smiles after school!! They said they can’t wait to go back. Just try to hype it up and talk about the good stuff a lot, and mention it as much as you can. We would say things like “at school you’ll get to learn to read!” When we read books. And when they’d ask to do art project we’d talk about all the fun projects at school they would do. Good luck!!

I agree with other comment. One suggestion is, can you find a local school or maybe even his school has part time summer camp that you can enroll in to slowly introduce your son to the concept for a couple hours 2x a week? Having him start a little earlier with a short time away and only 2 days might help transition him to the 5 days that are probably from 9-2 guessing. Some schools offer half day class so they go 9-12. It was tough when my July 2016 baby started school, we had him in 2 days from 9-2 and it took a while to adjust but this past year he did 5 days 9-2 and has been fine.