Pre K

[MrsK]

I got the supply list for Pre K today. He needs a big boy backpack. No minis, drawstrings, or wheels. IDK why this has me feeling like time escaped from me.

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[Michele]

I ordered Phe one from Lands End. Same style as the boys. It dwarfs her! But all three of mine will be in school this year. Crazy how fast it went!

[Pollyanna]

Love those backpacks on the littles! So cute!!

Hold on tight, it speeds up from here on out....

[spotty_dog]

DS used his kindergarten backpack by Crocodile Creek for two years in a row, and he'll use it for a third year if I can get the external mesh water bottle holder fixed. Super sturdy and nicely proportioned on his little frame (he was an average sized 5-almost-6 when we got it) plus the robot pattern (and matching lunchbox) was adorably kiddish without being licensed characters. I'm going to get the same brand for DD for kindy this fall. I don't wanna let my baby go to kindergarten! We haven't even started thinking back to school shopping yet! Wah!

[ides]

O will need one starting first next year. However since his new school doesn't have room in their cubby area for backpacks each kid gets a smallish school tote for kindergarten to haul lunch and any papers/books in.

[Pollyanna]

O will need one starting first next year. However since his new school doesn't have room in their cubby area for backpacks each kid gets a smallish school tote for kindergarten to haul lunch and any papers/books in.

That seems to be the new thing. It's really a great idea because kinders don't need an entire backpack. OMG, our older kids were in kinder when the rolling backpack was a thing. What a freaking nightmare to have nearly an entire elementary school with rolling backpacks. The school lasted about 2-3 years before highly discouraging parents from purchasing them

[Phoebe]

Rolling backpacks aren't allowed at our elementary. They have skinny lockers for cubbies and they won't fit.

[SuzySunshine]

Rolling backpacks aren't allowed here either - we can carry whatever, it just has to be able to hold a standard sized folder. My kids will both be using their packs from last year. I know people say PBK is hit and miss but mine both held up great. We'll be using their Lands End lunch boxes from 2 years ago, their PBK didn't hold up as well.

[MrsK]

I have been emotional all day today because my entire Facebook feed is pictures of my friends' kids starting their first day of kindergarten or their first day of Senior year. It's like watching the next 12 years go by really really fast.

Orientation day was today for K1's pre-k. OMG. The bureaucracy! The technology! Everything is "to be looked up on-line" or communicated by text. The teacher has a webpage. Classroom activities are photographed and loaded into snapfish albums. The school is "nut safer" and there is a list of approved snacks and we are on a schedule to bring in snacks during specific periods determined by our kids' birthdates and also a treat on their birthday and fresh fruit or veggies on the week of their birthday. There was a 40 minute presentation on pick up/drop off procedures and I still don't know what to do on Wednesdays when I have to pick up my child 20 minutes early. (Whatever it is I do, I hope it doesn't require me to unload my two other kids in the snow.) I volunteered to help with the book fair. I signed up for PTA. I was asked to be room mom. I hesitated at first and then realized that, of course I want to be room mom! I want to be helpful to the teacher and present in my child's classroom as much as possible. So, now I'm co-room mom. I haven't met the other room mom but I got to observe her today. Whoa! She's an Over-Achieving Mom the likes of which I have never seen before. Her daughter was wearing a handmade, monogrammed, outfit appliqued with her name and apples and rulers and other "school" symbols with her hair in perfect blonde plaits and matching ribbons. The mom brought in a personalized chalkboard sign documenting her daughter's first day of PreK and took pictures of her daughter and the teacher with her sign. She executed every first day of school project that has ever been posted on Pinterest. It. Was. Un.Be.Leiv.Able.

Oh, and at the end of the presentation to the parents they cautioned us not to cry in front of our kids during drop off on Monday.

I really thought I was ready for this.

[Thirteen]

I have been emotional all day today because my entire Facebook feed is pictures of my friends' kids starting their first day of kindergarten or their first day of Senior year. It's like watching the next 12 years go by really really fast.

Orientation day was today for K1's pre-k. OMG. The bureaucracy! The technology! Everything is "to be looked up on-line" or communicated by text. The teacher has a webpage. Classroom activities are photographed and loaded into snapfish albums. The school is "nut safer" and there is a list of approved snacks and we are on a schedule to bring in snacks during specific periods determined by our kids' birthdates and also a treat on their birthday and fresh fruit or veggies on the week of their birthday. There was a 40 minute presentation on pick up/drop off procedures and I still don't know what to do on Wednesdays when I have to pick up my child 20 minutes early. (Whatever it is I do, I hope it doesn't require me to unload my two other kids in the snow.) I volunteered to help with the book fair. I signed up for PTA. I was asked to be room mom. I hesitated at first and then realized that, of course I want to be room mom! I want to be helpful to the teacher and present in my child's classroom as much as possible. So, now I'm co-room mom. I haven't met the other room mom but I got to observe her today. Whoa! She's an Over-Achieving Mom the likes of which I have never seen before. Her daughter was wearing a handmade, monogrammed, outfit appliqued with her name and apples and rulers and other "school" symbols with her hair in perfect blonde plaits and matching ribbons. The mom brought in a personalized chalkboard sign documenting her daughter's first day of PreK and took pictures of her daughter and the teacher with her sign. She executed every first day of school project that has ever been posted on Pinterest. It. Was. Un.Be.Leiv.Able.

Oh, and at the end of the presentation to the parents they cautioned us not to cry in front of our kids during drop off on Monday.

I really thought I was ready for this.

That's totally insane!

[v-girl]

Wow. Just. Wow.

[MrsK]

Ok. So it's not just me. I was watching all this wondering if it was just me or if everyone else was as shellshocked as I was.

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[MrsK]

Big boy backpack.

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[v-girl]

Oh my gosh. Make him stop growing. I would sob. I'm not helping. I wouldn't sob.

[Pollyanna]

No, it is NOT you MrsK!!! Seriously, dd5 is two days into kinder and I'm pissed off already about, well, nearly everything. 90% of it is security theater and stuff that makes absolutely no sense. We aren't even allowed to take pictures of our children at school if other kids are visible. Wtf? So the kinder teachers don't really even bother taking pics anymore and I can't blame them. We are very swiftly removing all joy from school with all this bs.

On the plus side, you have the ideal co-room mom because she will do everything and just give you small jobs like bringing in the napkins