Preschool With Miss Jacy

On tuesday we took a walk down to the grassy open area by my house. John just finished overseeding our backyard, so I thought it would be a good idea to go for a walk since we wouldn't be able to play out back. All the kids started off on some kind of bike or scooter, but that wasn't going so well. Most of them ended up leaving their mode of transportation on the sidewalk to pick up on our way back. While at the park, we ran, threw frisbee, and talked about things that started with the letter "H". Cody and Taryn made good friends with the neighborhood "stray" cat. Don't worry, we scrubbed them down good as soon as we got back.

The remainder of the time was spent in "free" play. I did have some requests for the farting dog book, so we read that together.

On Thursday, Miss Jacy was a little late for school. I had to go on a monster run and thought I had enough time before the kiddos would show up. I was wrong. Sorry Denise and Lindz.

Darn that John. He took the camera with him to work so I couldn't capture the blooming romance between Cody and Taryn. We will need to keep an eye on those 2.

We spent a lot of time playing with water colors. I just rolled out paper on the craft table and let them go crazy. I also had them paint on white pieces of paper that had the number 8 written in white crayon. As they painted, the number would show up. I think they enjoyed this activity. Stacey- I'm sorry about the paint all over Taryn's shirt.

The kids were great. I love watching them interact with each other. It's fun once you get to know their personalities and you can predict who will do what in different situations.

Preschool At Zach's House: Thursday

Today we had a great day at preschool. Everyone was here today! There was not a tear to be had when the Mom's dropped kids off! Everyone is adjusting to our little routine well!

We did a little art project. Cody and Payson were too busy playing to do the project! They took theirs home to work on! Payson said he didn't want to make his because "I don't like spiders!"

At any given moment Payson could be found with the little tools fixing the cars! I think we have a little mechanic here!

The kids were DYING to go out back and play. We were focusing on the number 6 today....but my mind was focused on 7. I was "counting heads" every minute! They were so good to stay together so I could see all of them at once!

Payson made a sweet basket there! He is quite a basketball player!
Caden was driving the boat!

We ended the day with the parachute and Bubbles.




There were a few tears when the Mom's came to pick the kids up. I was glad the kids had so much fun!

These kids are all so darling! They say the cutest things! It is interesting how each child is unique and such an individual! I can't wait to see you back at my house in December! :)

Preschool at Zach's House: Tuesday

We had a great day at preschool today! We were small in numbers, but we had BIG fun! We missed Caden, Payson and Cody! We started out playing toys:


It was so darling how Will arranged all of the cars. He had them all in straight lines facing the same way! Will was so busy with the cars, he decided he didn't want to make a pumpkin face. He said he all ready has a pumpkin at home, "I don't need another one!"


We had a little Pumpkin Face Craft. Taryn had fun putting the pieces on her pumpkin. When she saw it all done, she said "pumpkins without faces are better" so she tore off all of the pieces.


Carson was so excited putting together his pumpkin. He put it right by the door when he was done, so he wouldn't forget to take it home!

Zachary put his pumpkin together, and then kept pulling the pieces off and reassembling until they wouldn't stick anymore!
We had snack. Our letter we talked about was F...we had Fish in two varieties...Golden and Gummy! We also studied our Fish in our tank. We had some writing pages to work on and color, but no one was too interested in that! There was too much fun to be had!

We played parachute and bounced a ball on top of the parachute! We also loved running underneath the parachute and letting fall down on our heads!

Preschool, Week 6

This week Preschool was at Carson's house. Mom had a great plan to review A-E and 1-5. She created a work sheet and then the printer decided to have technical difficulties so it ended up being a fun play group!

Here is what we were going to do: (took a pic of the computer screen) basically color, but some might have tried to write them ;)


Here is what we did:

I read them this book about the alphabet...only Carson, Taryn, and Payson were interested though


And we did have a snack


But this is what mostly happened..... a lot of nothing and everything ;)
*notice in the pictures of the play room (with all the toys) I took pics of that at 3 different times and thought it was funny that Will was all of them! So easy to keep happy!

Thursday was a bit more productive and wasn't the same without Payson and Zach!

They obviously played, but for "class time", as Carson puts it, we played catch up and reviewed A-E but had more success with numbers 1-5. We glued the "correct" amount of kix cereal in the circles with numbers 1-5 in them. I also made them kix and candy corn necklaces to teach counting...not as big of a hit as eating them!

Caden and Carson being silly

Caden doing the chicken dance as he put it (sorry it's dark, by the window :()

All of them

Showing the candy necklaces

One last thing...Cody was being so cute when I was taking pictures...he all of the sudden got shy, but I had to post.

Preschool, Week 5

This week was our week for preschool...I can't believe it has already been 5 weeks since we started! Tuesday, Cody was so excited for his friends to come and play. He kept looking out the front window waiting for everyone to get here.

This week, our letter was 'E', so I had the kids do some Marble Egg painting. They all really seemed to enjoy it (It was one of the things we did a lot of at the YMCA for the toddlers and preschool). You get a small box, print out whatever shape or object you want to paint, pick three colors, get some marbles, and have the kids shake the box back and forth so the marbles roll threw the paint. I should have taken some pictures, but I didn't. On Thursday, we learned about the number 5. I was going to have them do hand prints, but they all just wanted to paint instead, so that's what we did. The kids had a lot of fun jumping on the trampoline Thursday. They were all so good

Preschool at Payson's House

The kiddos worked on "hand eye coordination" at Paysons house!