Preschool Screening

Submitted by William on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 11:39pm

Today I went for my preschool screening. I got to see my favorite teacher, Janie, when I first walked in. But then I got pretty shy because the lady who did the screening was someone I'd never met before. We went to test my hearing and I was feeling so shy that I didn't play the game at first, so we moved on to other activities like throwing and hopping. Mommy had warned me that they would ask me to do some things that were easy and some that were hard, but I was still sad when the lady asked me to skip and I could only gallop. And I was really discouraged when she told me she wanted me to cut out that entire dinosaur! I'm a really careful cutter and it's hard work, so I skipped that activity. Then the activities got much easier. I breezed through the counting and the letters and telling which thing was big or short. My confidence level started to go way up and I was able to go back and do the hearing game again. I did really well that time. And my eye sight was 20/20, too. Mommy was a little disappointed that the lady didn't ask me rhyming words. That part was for four-year-olds, but we know I'm good at rhyming. At the end, the lady talked with Mommy for a while. They were talking about when I should go to kindergarten. My height is still coming in at the 90th percentile (I'm 41 inches) although my weight was down to 75% (39 lbs), so I'm still big for my age. I'm also pretty smart for my age, or so everyone tells me. So the teacher suggested I go to four-year-old preschool next year and then my parents and the teacher can decide. Mommy said she was glad to hear that because it matched what she was thinking! So there's no decision yet about kindergarten and that's just fine. I was more excited about the blocks I was building with than anything about kindergarten anyway.