Saturday, October 18, 2014

Preschool Circiulum

So I am assuming that most people don't really care about my preschool experience, but I am writing this more for my own reference in case I travel this path with future children. When I first started, we would go over the basics ie day of the week, month, bible verse, weather; but she wasn't really into it and wasn't really retaining any of the information. So I started incorporating songs into circle time and while she often huffs and puffs the tunes are catchy and she is learning/retaining more this way. If found this blog helpful and used most of her circle time ideas.
We start off singing our Good morning song and "This is the day"
Next come circle time activities including:
Days of the week: the tune of the Adams family
Months of the year: the tune of the Ten little Indians
Whats the weather: tune of Oh my Darling
We also review the date/year and season
We count starting 1-30 for September and increase by 10 each month til we get to 100
Then we sing some silly/active songs (ie head and shldrs, baby bumblebee) and I also try to incorporate a song related to our bible story and what we are learning about that week.

I like the flexibility of the way I have designed this year. Since we only do 3 days a week it allows us to  pick and choose which days we have school and allows us to do other fun things and not feel stuck at home. A few times we have only done 2 days due to our schedule/sickness/etc. Our preschool lasts anywhere from 40 min to 2 hours depending on the program and what we are doing that day/week. and sometimes little brother joins us and sometimes he just piddles around and plays or takes a nap.

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