Heidi Wants To Go To School

Heidi has been pretending a lot lately that she is in school. She usually tells me and my mom to get our books and follow her into the big room because it's school time... and then if we follow her, either Heidi or I have to be the teacher. We do things like counting, practicing sign language, reading nursery rhymes or other books, doing exercises, playing Simon Says, or just doing whatever the teacher says the student/s have to do.

Heidi just turned three this past Sunday (November 16th). Even if I could afford to send her to preschool right now (which we can't really do right now because we are temporarily jobless and homeless), she probably can't even go to a 3-year-old preschool program until she is almost 4-years-old because of her birth date, unfortunately. I think she wants to go to school and would probably do great in a 3-year-old program right now, but I guess we will just have to wait... Poor me! I guess Heidi will want to keep pretending to play school with me (or Grandma... or anyone else who will play) for another year or two... until I can eventually get her into some kind of a preschool program.

I remember when I was 3-years-old, I really wanted to go to school! I started going to a 3-year-old preschool program at Fort Rucker Elementary School. I remember my first day of school... I really wanted to ride the big, yellow school bus like my older neighbor kids, who got on the bus a couple of houses away from mine across the street. I remember standing out on my driveway wanting to get on the bus, but it just drove right past me and went over to the place where all of the big kids were waiting a couple of houses away. My mom drove me to school that day. Then, when we got there, my mom said that I told her to go after she took me to my classroom. I was ready to go to school without her. I also remember that there were little telephones on the wall on the left side of the room after I walked into the classroom. I guess I must not have started school on the same day as everyone else in the room because everyone in the room who knew their phone number in the classroom had a telephone with his/her name on it up on the wall. I just knew that I wanted my telephone up on the wall, so I went home and learned my phone number right away, so I could have mine up on the wall too! I can still remember it too... it was 598-8758. I hope Heidi will be as eager to go to school as I was... and it seems like right now, she is. :)