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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Five
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Second Preschool Day!
Getting better:) The kids are really taking to our Preschool day. Me and Misty are having so much fun! We noticed when Misty is in charge my kids listen better and when I am in charge her kids listen better. We are going to see if we can play that to our advantage:) We had some yummy pasta for lunch and then headed over to circle time. I was in charge of circle today so I sang, Down on Grandpa's Farm, A Ram Sam Sam, and the ABC song with sign Language. We also danced to Bop Til You Drop by Greg and Steve and then read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Drake actually sat with us for circle, some of it anyway:) Misty planned table time and it was great! We decided to go with a number theme since I did one through three last week she did the number 4. She used craft foam with a sticky back to cut out four shapes and the kids sorted them out into the correct section of the paper. We sorted without sticking them on first and it went great but when we moved on to sticking it proved to be too much for them to focus on.
Drake just kept transferring shapes from the bag to the table and back again. He was actually quite focused.
Caden did a great job of sorting and when it came to sticking he decided to stack each shape in a pile. I love watching him work:)
Thursday, April 23, 2009
First Preschool Day!
We started the day by going to feed some near by horses in the neigbohood to feed them carrots and apples! All of the kids really enjoyed this.
I started the lesson by taking my own paper and showing the children the numbers on the paper. I then used the little Cats and counted them out in each box. I was really amazed at how all of the kids were so intrigued with my demonstration. I then held up the papers one at a time and had them guess whose name was on the paper as I handed them out. I then gave them each six cats to practice with on their own paper.
I was really surprised at how interested Drake was in this activity! He wanted to do it just like the "Big Kids". He didn't count them but he sure looked cute putting them all on his paper:)
After they were done practicing I gave them each a sheet of stickers to try it with.
I don't have a picture but I rolled a ball to each other kids one at time and asked them what they were going to play with out side. They all said, "Play in the yard". It was too cute. I'm sure they will get the concept better soon. After they told me what they wanted to do they rolled the ball back and went to play. It was great to get outside with them in the front yard but it was HOT! We went inside and finished our day with a water break and a little WORD WORLD(PBS Show).
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Preschool Days!!
Me and My sister have been wanting to do this for so long but since we were both expecting babies at the same time we wanted to wait till they were born and we were both settled in to our new families. Today will be our first day of "preschool". We will be taking turns planning and implementing on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Our schedule will start when the kids wake up from their naps at 2:00pm and the schedule will go as follows.
2:00 Lunch
2:30 Circle Time
This is the plan for now but we will see how it goes and tweak it where we need to. The basic outline is mimicked after my old preschool schedule. I'll be posting on Wednesdays and Fridays! I'll let you know how it goes:)
2:00 Lunch
2:30 Circle Time
- 3 finger play songs
- 1 CD song
- 1 book
- 1 educational activity
- plan one thing that they will do during free play time
This is the plan for now but we will see how it goes and tweak it where we need to. The basic outline is mimicked after my old preschool schedule. I'll be posting on Wednesdays and Fridays! I'll let you know how it goes:)
Friday, April 10, 2009
Starting Slow
I have been resuming or normal schedule this last week and it went really well. I didn't do anything super amazing but we had a lot of fun. I really went back to basics this week and the boys seemed to enjoy the simplicity.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
What we've been upto!
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