Open House yesterday:
LOVED Nat's teacher, loved her assistant, loved the room, loved the other parents, still think this is the school for her.
Up today: first day of leaving Nat alone in the classroom. But they have a phase-in policy for kids new to this school; new to school in general; new to Montessori, so it's only for a little over an hour. The PTA (which is called something more PC than "PTA" is having a coffee for parents all day so I can do that while Nat's in the classroom.
It's weird, diving into private school culture when I'd been plotting home school culture for the past several years. Not to say we'll never home school (we likely will at some point, if only to travel around the world for a year or whatnot), but for now, there's this whole new culture to adjust to. One nice thing though, is that it seems lots of Nat's classmates' parents share quite similar values to ours--many live in our neighborhood and work in similarly lefty/creative/education-oriented jobs. I might actually make a friend in the neighborhood this way.
Oh--and yes, I emailed the teacher a letter and she seemed really gracious about it and didn't seem annoyed with me at all. So that's good.
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