Vincent loves his school

After three years in Swedish kindergarden, Vincent became more open to new things. He is a little-big curious guy who loves knowing everything about everything. He keeps asking questions and as it wasn't enough with asking questions he is following them with next question: "How do you know that?". He makes me reading a little bit more, just to keep up with his interests :)

But now Vincent has faced new challenge, an international school with English and Mandarin as main languages. Vincent was extremely excited about the school. After two months without his Swedish school and friends he needed a change.

We went to school

on Wednesday and we got a general presentation for new families we also had a chance to see his classroom and meet his teacher. During the presentation, a short movie about the school and brief presentation of key persons there he was clapping his hands with everybody and had this wonderful smile on his face. He definitely enjoyed it! But the best part was still ahead of us.

When we came to his classroom, there were no other kids, just the teacher. Perfect situation, my analyzing kid had a chance to meet his teacher properly and discover all the toys in the room in a very relaxed atmosphere. The teacher turned out to be a male! He seems to be a cool person, but at the same time quite strict on the rules he has. Very good combination :)

Vincent got interested in some things in the room and started playing. After a while when he already felt comfortable with surroundings, the other kids came. Kids are funny in this age :) They do not approach each other, just go around observing others behavior or simply ignoring each other... :) After en hour he still didn't want to leave and I had to use persuasion techniques to get him out of there. The promise of next day worked pretty well.

His first days went very very good. In the morning, before we left the house he said "I am so happy, I'm gonna cry"... This feeling must have been very strong, because he said that in Polish to me and a minute later in Portuguese to Rodrigo :)

In school he listened to the teacher, played a lot and read books. When I came to pick him up, he made a comment that he didn't meet any kids yet... I guess all kids are still a little bit confused and try to find themselves in the new situation... The second day he said: "Mommy, can you pick me up a little bit later?" :) That was such a relief... he likes his school a lot! After second day I asked him "Can you understand when your teacher talks to you?" and he answered "Yes, and I also understood the movie we watched today". Great!

Vincent has a weekly schedule, including visit to library (twice a week), Mandarin classes (every day), art, science and physical exercise. He is wearing the school uniform. He has 10 classmates from US, Germany, Holland, China, Sweden and Norway. Quite a mix.

This weekend he was thinking a lot about Monday and what he will do in school. I just hope that tomorrow after school he will be as happy as he was last week!