Over the past year, I have been asked the question, “So, what are you doing for Joshua for preschool?” many, many times. I have had two standard answers to this question: The very intelligent “uhh…..” and the very nervously delivered, “I don’t really want to think about that yet.”
Joshua will be five in February, so he definitely won’t be going to kindergarten until a year from now (I am having cold sweats, breaking out in hives, and trying not to puke as I type that! Ugh!) But since he has known all his letters since before he was 2, can write his name, and now read quite well, I really wasn’t going to send him to preschool. To be brutally honest, this is basically because I didn’t want to deal with it and/or pay for it. He gets plenty of social interaction at Sunday school and Awana, and as I said, “academically” he is fine.
But I felt a bit guilty about that, since that is what moms do.
Then my BFF Luanne came up with a brilliant idea. She suggested I put Joshua in her homeschool co-op. (She homeschools her 14-year-old daughter.) The co-op has class the first three Thursdays of the month from 10-2 and a field trip the last Friday of every month. There is a class for just hte pre-K kids. I would be with him, there is a nursery for Sophie, and the cost is less than $100 per year for one child.
It has the added benefit of getting my lazy butt out of the house!
I haven’t decided whether or not I will homeschool. I am leaning towards not, but who knows, the other co-op moms may fore me to drink the homeschool kool-aid!
So, I mailed the application and check today. Soon my little guy will be a bona fide preschooler! I’m hoping we will both make some new friends, have fun, and learn a lot.
But I am curious, how did those of you who have gone before make your preschool decisions?