Today ends my first week of teaching preschool. We are using the Mother Goose Time curriculum. I was nervous about doing a co-op rather than a certified preschool program because I don't have any real experience teaching little kids. But MGT turned out costing only $50 for the curriculum for the entire school year compared to upwards of $4,000 for the Children's Museum program. I'm uncertain that a three-year-old gets much more out of a spendy program than a home-school one. For example, the important socializing and quality thereof that occurs during preschool is likely independent of geography or tuition levels.
Each parent has all seven kids for six weeks at a time, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9-11:30 a.m. My turn has come and after scripting out the structure of the morning, I found the time goes pretty quickly (and sometimes, effectively). The kids have free play time, of course ... but then it's hard core academics. They do stuff like:
Devouring turkey dinner
Devouring turkey dinner
and decorating turkey sugar cookies.Today, Talmage and Joseph said they were thankful for the "Rocketship Place". Hailey said she was thankful for butterflies. And I am thankful for Augusta, my parent helper.
3 comments:
we don't get to decorate turkey sugar cookies at byu
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i think our curriculum is missing an important part of our education
I'm thankful for frequently updated blogspots.
Oh Robin you're a brave lady to host a pack of little kids at your house.
Max goes to the Lutheran preschool those same days and hours and one thing for sure that you can do at home, that I can't do with him at some other place, is control the amount of TOTAL JUNK he is fed.
Oh and we've all been sick with 3 new viruses since mid-september.
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