Violet Levels Up
Exciting times are ahead for Violet. She is being moved to a new classroom in daycare. Her current and previous classes focused mainly on keeping her busy and slowly introducing her to various activities like music, artwork, playtime, social interaction, etc… Her new class, Toddler-2, is the first that introduces a specific daily schedule focused on both playing and learning. The various activities that she will be a part of every day, versus every so often, include: puppets, reading circle, interactive music, sensory and art projects, nursery rhymes, flash cards, and English and Spanish language comprehension.
There is still plenty of play time for her as well as nap time (not that she ever actually takes a nap…) and having been through this routine once before with Piper, this is when Violet will start learning about and making friends with her classmates. The previous classes didn’t really offer a setting to get to know either the other kids or the parents, except at various holiday parties or special events hosted by Crème. It was around the beginning of T2 with Piper that we started to get to know and even build some friendships with other parents of kids in the same class.
There was lots of extra time to meet the other parents and even to get to know the kids each morning since the teachers no longer take care of breakfast. In the earlier classes, and again once the kids are about 3.5yo, the teachers either provide or supervise breakfast. In the middle, T2 and T3, the parents are required to either feed their kids before they come to school, or sit with them while the eat a meal provided by the school. This probably won’t be a big deal with Violet since she loves to eat, but I recall that there were many days where Piper gave us trouble, or at least drug it out as long as she could.
Another change the move requires is that of clothing. T2 marks the transition to wearing uniforms. Good thing is that we have a wide variety of uniforms from Piper’s passage, most of which should fit Violet as she does the same.
Regardless of the breakfast routine or the uniforms I am glad to see her grow up and move from class to class with her friends. Each time she moves we can see a marked improvement in everything she does and I don’t expect anything less this time around.
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