Transition

In the fall, I always expect an adjustment period. Typically that adjustment is for the kids though. After a very fun, very busy, very full summer with lots of school aged kids, I didn't know what to do with myself as I sat there yesterday with Miss Brooke and just 6 children! It was as if I had never done daycare without the "big kids". The pre-schoolers just sat and played. There was no bickering, no wild running, testing the limits of all the toys and finding that their strength and size is greater than the limits of our toddler toys.

If these boys don't look like trouble, I don't know what does! ;-)

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE those school kids, it is just so different suddenly with them in school.

So, yesterday, the first full day of school we all transitioned back to what will now be our typical days. Get the big kids off to school, eat a semi-quiet breakfast with all of the younger kids, and find each and every teachable moment throughout the day to make a game or activity out of.

Our wonderful Miss Brooke had some leis and had found the idea to make grass skirts out of garbage bags, so we learned about Hawaii...hula dancing and volcanoes and beaches, oh my!