Nature School

Hey all, sorry for the blog absence lately.  I just haven't been feeling it lately.  We've been getting into a new groove with the school year and things are going fine.  I'm just in a blogging slump, I guess.  And I feel like my photography sucks right now too.  Not sure what is going on.  I blame it partly on the iPhone and part on my minor league skills.  I guess we'll see what happens in the next few months with the old blog.

Last week, Buddy attended his first day of Nature School!  It was the most awesome day for our little guy and just the perfect class for our boy.

I became a little burned out of preschool at the end of last year.  Punky had been attending for 2.5 years and I felt she was smarter than what they were doing in class.  Therefore, we had decided last year to wait to put Buddy in preschool.  He'll be 6 when he starts kindergarten and I think one year of preschool is enough.

As a compromise, we put Buddy into a weekly class at our local Nature Center.  Each week is a different topic (insects, spiders, fall colors, pumpkins, etc.) and students can sign up for one class or all of them, like we did.  The class is run just like a preschool class with free time, circle time with a story and lesson, an art project and at the end of class, a nature hike.  It will be so nice for Buddy to have a chance to meet new kids and get a little bit of time in a classroom.  Not to mention, I will have two hours a week to myself too!

He was a little nervous to go on the first day, but as soon as we walked into his classroom and he saw the bug toys set up to play with, he was waving me off.  He was so excited to go back the second week.  And then on the second week, we found a snake curled up right outside of the entrance door!  Buddy was so quick to pick him up and had no fear.  I was a little freaked out and told Buddy to look, not touch.  Then I realized there was no harm in touching and if he wasn't afraid, he should hold the snake.  He was so happy to grab "his first snake".  I was so happy for the rest of the day because I knew how excited Buddy was.  Hopefully next week Buddy isn't too disappointed when the snake isn't outside waiting for him!