Eya's 2nd week at Summer School

Snapshots at Eya's 2nd Week:

*Lesser crying time. She no longer cried by the third day. When I left her with the teacher on Wednesday, she still did not look too happy but at least she did not wail. The same with Thursday. But by Friday, she was the one in a hurry to enter the classroom. She was pulling her daddy by the hand and when they reached the room she went directly to her side of the table to participate in the activities. She did not even notice when her daddy left.

*She was able to nap during this week. The teachers finally discovered the trick. They had to put a cloth over her eyes for her to be able to sleep.

*She is now more expressive. She can tell her teachers when she wants water and when she'd like her cup to be opened. But I think she's still shy to tell them when she'd like to pee.

*The teachers said that she's more participative now. She helped put peanut spread on bread during their cooking activity, and she ate the toast as well. She's also showing more interest in other activities, like reading and science experiments, but action songs remain her favorite.

*She's more sociable now. She remembers some of her classmates' names and waves good-bye at them before leaving the school. She waves good-bye at some of her teachers too.

*At the end of school time, she tells us excitedly about what she did. She expresses this through some words, but mostly she acts them out. We take this as a sign that she's enjoying herself.

*When we're at home, she sometimes would blurt out, "punta si Eya sa school" ("Eya's going to school.") We take this as a sign that she's excited to be going to school.

*At the end of Friday, she was proud and excited to show us her artworks for the week which includes sunflower handprint and butterfly footprint, among others. They were great!!!

We are just so happy to see that Eya's enjoying herself at playschool. I hope she continues to have more fun and progress during her third week, which was the last week for the summer session.