Pre-school open house

We broke from the evening routine last night to attend a pre-school open house at Columbia High School, the main public school for kids in South Orange and Maplewood, N.J. Some community coalition on race sponsored the event and convinced a couple dozen pre-schools/daycares to come set up tables and pitch parents on their services. We thought, at the very least, it would expose us to some of the options out there.

Turns out Greta has a few: She can just convert now, maybe with Jay's help, to Judaism. Or she can dedicate the rest of her learning life to sequencing, a key component of the Montessori philosophy. I was particularly proud of the fact that at one of the Montessori booths Greta just kept taking the little plastic pegs out of the round holes on a board and dropping them on the floor. Sequence that, people! Or, the final option, and one I found quite intriguing: Something called "brain-based learning." Imagine that. Now that some school has figured out that learning takes place in the brain, all bets are off.

Anyway, a few Treo pix to mark the occasion. Greta posing with Lincoln, Lincoln blissfully unaware and chewing off his fingers, and the parents milling about, wondering which synagogue traditionally produces the best college board scores.