Meet The Teacher...

Today's the day, every year the kids can't wait to find out who their teacher will be.  (As a parent, I am equally as anxious if I didn't make a request ahead of time) 

First up was Garrison... This year he starts preschool.  We decided to send him to the same school as Ava and Dillon for a few reasons
1) Easy schedule for drop off and pick up
2) Allows him to feel comfortable knowing Ava and Dillon are at the same school
and
3) It is a great program which Dillon went through when he was his age. 
The program is your typical preschool program but with 1 main difference.  It's an integrated program that has a ratio of 70% special needs (which categorizes pretty much any learning delay out there) to 30% tuition based children.  The focus is to have tuition based children help their classmates by example.  It's a great program and all children attending have such growth by years end.
Garrison's teacher this year is Mrs. Lasswell.  She has been teaching the program at our school since it opened in 2007.  Garrison shocked us tonight.  He was real hesitant to enter the classroom.  Once in the room, he wanted nothing to do with meeting the teacher.  Luckily, she had a plate of cookies out so a bit of bribery was used to take this picture!

 

After meeting Garrison's teacher it was time for Ava.  We knew the name right away.  She used to teach kindergarten but made the change to 2nd grade this year.  Mrs. Fierro had a very cute yellow and black bumblebee decorated classroom.  Ava happily smiled for a quick picture and off we went to meet the 3rd teacher of the evening.

The final classroom was Dillon's 4th grade class.  Mrs. Duke's was also a familiar face but none of us has had her as a teacher until this year!  She has a great reputation (all the teachers at our school do though!) so we are excited to see what this year brings.  Dillon didn't want to take this picture but I reminded him until 7th grade, he's stuck taking the normal back to school pictures!