Josiah's 1st Day of 4K School!

I had never heard of 4K school or even knew what it was until sometime last year when a friend notified me of a free preschool program through the Kenosha Unified school district program. And from that point, we rushed in to get Josiah signed up and he was one of the last few to make it on the list!

But ever since then and even up to today and even right now! - I've had every measure and heighth and depth of excitement coupled with anxiousness that a person could have. I am honestly amazed at just how nerve wracking a first day of school prospect can be on a parent, let alone the child! I finally called my husband at work yesterday to express to him the fact that I was just plain nervous about the whole event.

It brought me to think about WHY is it that I have such anxiety? I went to school and was fine, right? (well hopefully you think so...!) And plenty of other children go to school and are fine too, in fact they LOVE it just like I did! I remember the going back to school seasons of my life, getting my school supplies, laying out the clothes, everything that goes with that and just how very excited I was to pack everything up in my new backpack and march off to school. I loved education, I loved learning, I loved to read, all of it. And knowing Josiah as he is at this age of his life, he is much the same. The child LOVES to learn, loves to read and his ability to focus on detail is impressive to me at his age. So really the strength of what we see in the program for him this year at this '4K' school is to develop him socially - in building friendships, in learning how to respond and respond rightly to authority other than Mom & Dad's, in dealing with disappointment when he doesn't get his way. To me, it's much more than academic - as much as you would even think a 4K program would be about academics anyways...so the nervousness that I feel, is for him in wanting him to do well and succeed, to love school and to love learning and education and for overall this to be a great experience for him. And so I pray and will continue praying for him and with him and over him in this new adventure and chapter of his life.

Both Larry and I were privileged to bring him together to his first day of school and take a load of photos. We were also able to pray with him on the way to school, in protection over him.

Once we got there, he lined up with his 12 other classmates and was marched into his classroom. We were able to walk in with him to view the class and where he would sit and he even has a shared locker! What a fun thing for a 4 year old. He settled in nicely, was down to playing with the overflowing corner of toys and happily on his way - while his father and I took loads of pictures, kept on looking in at him all thie while trying to convince ourselves (or at least for me) that he really was ok and that it would do well for us to be on our way too.

Here's a few pic's from the day....and back to pick him up by 11.10!