having decided on 2 days a week of school for the peanuts, they now needed to go through what is known here (and i'm sure everywhere else) as "settling in".
settling in consists of the parent leaving the child or in my case, children for a short window of a few hours. they hang out in their classroom, with the other students and the teachers for that room doing whatever has been planned for the day.
for me this meant i got 3 whole hours of freedom. without the peanuts! grocery shopping, here i come.
upon return, you get a report of how your child/children responded to the school - did they cry? vomit at the sight of lunch? spin their head a la the exorsist? that kind of thing.
so how did it go, you ask?
my children barely recoginized that i had left the building and we're more than a bit irritated that i had now arrived at an what they considered to be an inconvenient time to take them home. so much for the feeling of love and need from one's children.
they played well with the other kids. they played outside. they played inside. they had tea, which gemma called "grey water" and although teacher sam thought the possibility of cakes with the afternoon tea was in the cards, the tea snack selection was actually raisins and bread, leaving gemma quite disappointed with her first "tea" service experience as she kept asking what had happened to the cakes.
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