Kindergarten So Far

So on his second day of Kindergarten, Adam came home, went up to his room and curled up on the bed very sadly.  I asked him what was wrong and he said he had no one to play with at recess.  There were only two other boys in his class, and they were cousins, so they would just go off by themselves and leave Adam alone.  I spoke to his teacher about it, and she talked to the boys, but they wouldn't wait for Adam or let him play.  After his first day of excitement, he was so sad about being alone at recess, and it broke my heart to think of him standing there looking for someone to play with.  What a horrible first experience with school.

So after much prayer and deliberation, we asked his teacher and the school if he could be switched into the other Kindergarten class, which has five other little boys and Megan (our neighbour, with whom Adam has played a lot over the summer).  This was no problem, so after four days in Kindergarten, he was part of a new class.  We wanted to do it sooner rather than later so that he wouldn't be the "new kid" in the class. It was a difficult decision because on the one hand, we want him to learn to deal with hard social situations, but on the other hand, he really had no other options of friends in the first class.  Normally we would have told him to try to find someone else to play with, but there was no one else!

Anyway, it seems to have been a good decision.  He is really enjoying school now, and in this class, all the kids play together at recess, so he has lots of kids to play with. We're still working with him on learning how to deal with things without bursting into tears, but that's another entry for another day!