I took Sasha to her first fun filled evening. She's not really used to interacting with anyone outside the immediate family, so this should be great for socializing her. At first, Sasha went into a very quiet, observing mode. They started out with story time and they had all these little chairs. I sat Sasha in a chair and she literally just sat there on that chair for like 20-30 minutes straight, just staring around and trying to make sense of what was going on:
After story time was over, she still just sat in that chair. The rest of the kids moved on to arts and crafts and playtime. Eventually I was able to coax her off that chair and into arts and crafts:
They made a turkey out of a paper bag stuffed with crumpled news paper, then they had each child 'decorate' a paper turkey feather. Sasha did just fine decorating her little feather. Go Sasha!
She warmed up to the classroom and played with toys for a while. They opened up the school gymnasium and put a bunch of balls, bikes, and outdoor-type toys in there. I took her to that and she ran around and pushed the bikes around. No she wouldn't ride them, she just wanted to push them:
After she got tired of that, we went back to the classroom of toys. Did I mention it was stuffed floor to ceiling with aisles of toys?
We stayed until they closed up the classroom and kicked us out. What a blast. Sasha made a little friend with a boy a month younger than her. Actually, they just stood in front of each other and stared, but when it was time to leave they said 'bye bye!' to each other, which was really cute.
There were actually lots of kids her age there. I think the interaction with other kids her age should be good for her. We'll definitely be doing this again. Especially during the winter months to keep us from feeling cooped up. I love this program
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