Farm Animals

B was brave enough to be the first teacher for the kid's first real day of Blue Preschool.  She taught the letter A, the color Black, circles, the number 1, and farm animals.  Here is what she said about this week:

"Today we learned about farm animals. We talked about smells and noises that a farm has. We also talked about the responsibilities of a farmer and what each animal does for us. Such as Cows producing milk ect. We sang ol'mcdonald had a farm, played duck-duck goose and read farm animal books. The kids had fun coloring a picture of a farm and making a tractor.

It was a lot of fun. I look forward to doing it again in a few weeks."

  Little J was the Star Helper today!

Now they are all ready for our Field Trip to the Farm this week! 

Star Helper

This is our Star Helper vest.  Each kid will get to be the Star Helper when their Mom is the one teaching that week.  They get to wear the vest for all of preschool and be the big helper whenever it is needed.  Hopefully this will teach the children responsibility, leadership, and hosting skills.

First Day of School

Today we met for our first day of Blue Preschool.  We all met together so the kids could get to know each other and all the Moms that would be their teachers.  Each Mom took a segment and we all had a great time.

We started with a gathering activity- puzzles

We then had singing and wiggle time with R.

Here are the songs we sang:

Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

Name Chant

Higgelly, wiggelly, bumblebee who can say their name for me?
(child says name)
let's all say it (name)

Let’s all yell it (name)
Let’s all clap it (name)
Let's all whisper it (name)

I Like to go to School- to the tune: "Farmer in the Dell"

I like to go to school.
I like to go to school.
Heigh-ho-the-derry-oh,
I like to go to school.

I like to play with friends.
I like to play with friends.
Heigh-ho-the-derry-oh,
I like to play with friends.

I like to dance around.

I like to dance around.

Heigh-ho-the-derry-oh,

I like to dance around.

I like to jump up high.

I like to jump up high.

Heigh-ho-the-derry-oh,

I like to jump up high.

I like to sit down quiet.

I like to sit down quiet.

Heigh-ho-the-derry-oh,

I like to sit down quiet.

Can you Find? to the tune:  “The Muffin Man”

Teacher:  Can you find ______?
                 _______, ________?
               Can you find ______?
               He has a blue shirt on.

Children:  Point to the child.

After that we had the lesson on Rules from C.  She told the story of the preschool with no rules and how the kids and teacher at that school were very sad, then she went over the rules.  The kids were really good and listened very well, even T who wanted to sit in the back.

W then read Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.  She read the story with little cutouts of Alexander and the hard things he had to endure.  She also talked about having a case of the bad attitudes.  She then showed the kids our "Australia" area where they can go when they are having a bad day to take a moment, then when they are feeling happy again they can join the rest of the class. It is called Australia because that is where Alexander decides he wants to go after his bad day. 

In the Australia corner we'll have pillows and quiet activities like books for the kids to look at.

After story time we had snack provided by B.  We also sang the snack song:

Snack Song- to the tune “Bring back my Bonnie to me”

Thank you, Thank you.  Thank you so much for our snack, today.

Thank you, Thank you.  Thank you so much for our snack.

The kids then got to make place mats with pictures we had taken earlier and stickers for their names.  J led the craft and all the Moms helped with the glue and stickers.

J then took each kid into the bathroom and painted their hands so they could make hand prints for their place mats.  C laminated them at the end and they turned out very cute.  Here is little J getting his hands painted.

At the end the kids sang Happy Birthday to T since he'll be turning 3 on Thursday.  S led the song and made him a big button with a shiny 3 on it and his name- he was very happy.

Welcome to Blue Preschool

G asked his Mom for weeks to go to his Blue Preschool.  She finally had to tell him that there was no such thing.  When she told us that story we decided that that would be a great name for our preschool... Blue Preschool!  Especially since all six kids are boys:)

Here are our little preschoolers- look how grown up they are!  Oh, and it was amazing that they all cooperated to take the picture... go peer pressure.

From left to right: P, G, little J, EW, T with EM standing