PLA Orientation & Registration

Well the time has come! Campbell is starting K4 this year at Pike Liberal Arts and she is so excited about going to big school!!  She has asked me all summer how many more days and finally we got to give her a countdown this week. I have had fun getting her supplies together and remember how geeked out I would get about getting new clean notebooks, school supplies and labeling all my things just so.  The excitement has been building with every new thing…her new backpack & lunch box, picking out her folders, shopping for her craft and classroom supplies, etc.

We had Orientation Thursday night and found out who was going to be her teacher (Mrs. Cindy Boutwell) and who was going to be in her class.  We were surprised to find out that many of Campbell’s classmates and friends from Mother’s Day Out were going to be in her class again!

Although I went to Pike from K-12th grade, the school has changed sooo much!  I was impressed with all the new rooms, organized efforts, traffic patterns and instructions-yes, its has changed a lot since 1996!!

Matt even ordered a PTO t-shirt for himself and as we left the school said “well, I’m a Patriot now!” So I guess the whole family is in the spirit!

Today was registration and although we didn’t have to go, Campbell would have been so disappointed not to! We dropped off her a lot of her supplies and while I registered her paperwork at the office, she played in her new classroom and spent some time with Mrs Cindy. She didn’t want to leave!!  I hope she is this enthusiastic on Monday on her “real” first day of school as she says.

 

Thursday night Orientation & Open House. Campbell was so excited to find a box with HER name on it!  This is where she will keep her play-doh & toys.

 

Campbell and her teacher, Mrs. Cindy!  I can tell she will be a very loving and patient teacher which is just what Campbell will need.

 Mom & Dad with our new little Patriot. She is wearing a police jacket-already found the dress-up clothes and ready to play!

Playing with Emma Cate Baker, a friend from church and school.

The apple tree!  Daddy helped Campbell find her apple and we talked about all the good things that happen if your apple stays up but if you are naughty, that apple will come down!

I took this quick pic on the way to Pike Friday morning for registration.  She looks like she grew up overnight!! It was like I looked in the backseat at this big girl on her way to school, chatting all the way about all the fun things she was going to do this year, so confident and excited and ready.   It makes it easier for me to to be more excited than emotional when I see how happy this new beginning makes her.  Where has the time gone??!!