Let's Play Catch Up!

"Wee" Love Preschool started on September 8th. Two Very fun and energetic classes to be held on Mondays and Wednesdays. The morning class begins at 9:00 a.m. until noon, while the smaller, afternoon class is from 12:45 until 3:45 (my only 2 three year olds go home at 2:45).

Morning Class

Afternoon Class

I wasn't too surprised that the children were very excited. New friends, toys and things to do. We learned about what we do in preschool, a welcome song to sing each day, and fun and safe rules to follow at school. We read stories about going to school and since we were "wild about preschool" we made Monkey masks to take home. The high light of the day however, was making and eating vanilla and chocolate pudding.

5 little monkeys?

The Rest of September we focused on self awareness, our friends, and our family. We recorded our height and weight so we can watch our growth through the school year. We played games to help with getting to know new friend's names and talked about who is in a family.

My preschoolers are so smart, we basically just need to review our colors and shapes and devoted a whole class to each.

We ended September with a Birthday Party for Johnny Apple Seed. First of all we needed to find out who Johnny was with a fun story about him. The children were real excited to see the inside of the apple and find the actual seeds. (Good thing I have an apple tree in the back, because I think I cut open a least a dozen apples to dig out the seeds for the children.) We also tried to find any worms in the apples. We found plenty of holes from the worms, but no worms. (I think the boys were very disappointed we didn't find any.) We made easy apple crisp, and dried apple necklaces. At the end of class, Brock asked when Johnny was going to show up for his party. (He must of missed the part, "he lived a long time ago".) That was my chuckle of the day! It must seem weird to celebrate someones birthday who isn't even going to be there! I love to see how these children think.

October started with surrounding awareness. We talked about where we live, country and city, and different types of homes. "Community Helpers" and "People in our Neighborhood" is always a fun day. This is where they get to see different types of careers and express what they want to be when they grow up. When this question was asked, I had many Batmans, Spidermans, and Princesses. As we talked about each community worker, and their importance, luckily the children's minds had changed to doctors, teachers, and construction workers, (many claimed that their dad was a super hero for his job, however).

Skills too where focused on. Scissor cutting, paper riping, and tracing helped with our fine motor, while bean bag tossing, music movements, Hokey Pokey and Simon says, games focused on large motor skills. We talked about sizes, opposites, things that are the same, things that go together, reading from left to right, and my favorite, Position Words.

Around the Table

Under and On Top of the Table Behind the Table