So to all of you moms, I have started a pre-school co-op that we started today and it was so fun. I totally recommend doing it with a group of your friends. We are doing it just 1x per week and a mom is in charge of her week. We have a weekly theme and they can choose how they want to teach it. So I don't teach again for 7 weeks because we have 7 moms involved. It's Great!! This is a run down of how it played out today...
10am-noon
· Recess till everyone comes
· Opening- Pledge, Calendar, Weather, Names
· Name Game: We went around the circle and I started with myself and said "my name is Ms. Camille and I like motorcycles..... 'Vroom vroom' for a motorcycle then we repeated it and went to the next person. We learned each child's and then repeated till we learned them all. The kids loved it and it was entertaining. This helped the children get to know each other and loosen up.
· Scavenger Hunt around the house- for Triangles, blue, #1, A My lesson for the day...It is amazing what you can find around the house that has these things :)
· Song: Apples falling off the apple tree (tune: popcorn popping..I made it up.) Goes as follows...
'I looked out the window and what did I see
apples falling off the apple tree
fall time has brought me such a nice surprise
apples falling right before my eyes
I can take an arm full and make a treat
Apple cider that tastes so sweet
I know it is so and it seems to me
apples falling from the apple tree'
· Apple plates noise maker (craft)- Take 2 paper plates and color them to look like an apple. put a handful of beans (or bells or any other noise maker) inside and glue and staple the edges. You can add ribbon to give it a fun musical feel.
· Apple Games
o Hot “apple” (potato),
o How many apples tall are you?- Lay on the ground and lay apples next to the child to measure how many apples tall they were. They loved this too. It took around 10-12 apples for pre-school age kids.
· Fable Story!
Little Red House Fable found on
Submitted by Karen
Once there was a little boy who came to visit his grandparents in Norway. Well, the small child gets bored as there is not a lot of excitement in Norway.. The boy asks his grandma what he can do. She said to go out in the town and find a round, red house that has no doors, no windows and has a star inside
The little boy ponders the idea but cannot figure out what he is supposed to find. She decides to go ask farmer John from next door, as he seems fairly smart. She ask farmer Scott but he can't figure it out but he has an ideal.
He says, See that apple tree in my front yard, go sit under it and think lots of great ideas have come under an apple tree. So the little boy goes, sits under the tree and is about to fall asleep when out of nowhere a huge puff of wind comes. The tree began to sway and an apple fell out of the tree landing right next to the boy.
The boy picks up the apple looks at it, and suddenly it hits him; An apple is round, red, has not windows, no doors, but wait is there a star inside. He runs to his Grandpa and asks him to cut the apple in half and sure enough, there is a star insider the apple (at this point cut an apple in half and show the star)
The little boy ponders the idea but cannot figure out what he is supposed to find. She decides to go ask farmer John from next door, as he seems fairly smart. She ask farmer Scott but he can't figure it out but he has an ideal.
He says, See that apple tree in my front yard, go sit under it and think lots of great ideas have come under an apple tree. So the little boy goes, sits under the tree and is about to fall asleep when out of nowhere a huge puff of wind comes. The tree began to sway and an apple fell out of the tree landing right next to the boy.
The boy picks up the apple looks at it, and suddenly it hits him; An apple is round, red, has not windows, no doors, but wait is there a star inside. He runs to his Grandpa and asks him to cut the apple in half and sure enough, there is a star insider the apple (at this point cut an apple in half and show the star)
· Snack time- Cut apple slices and show star -Cut across the belly of the apple to find the star
Second hour
· Hide Mr. Alligator (who has Mr. Alligator)- I had a picture of an alligator on the back of my clipboard that the kids could see and I asked "have you guys seen where my Mr. alligator went?" they were pointing and I looked behind me and played with them for a bit until I saw it on the clipboard. This got the kids into the mindset of Alligators.
· Song-
5 little monkeys swinging in a tree,
teasing the alligators, you can’t catch me, you can’t catch me….
Along came an alligator quiet as can be….
And snapped that monkey right out of the tree
· Tag- can’t get me Alligator
· Lie on grass and talk about what is Blue… The sky, eyes…
· Things that are triangles
· Recess!!
· Go Home~
It was a fun day! I was too busy with the kids to get pictures taken... :( You'll just have to imagine.
But at breakfast Gideon wanted me to take a picture of him and one of his best friends...... Wolfy :) He got this wolf when he was 15 months old when we lived in Wyoming...Too cute!
1 comment:
Way to go! Sounds like you are one organized woman. Your boys will love Preschool. All of my kids loved doing co-op preschool too and still talk about their friends from it.
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