Up and Running!!

Well, the Precepts Academy Preschool is up and running!!  I have my first almost full-time little person!  Sweet Pea is not quite 3 and she loves imaginative play and "paperwork"!  We have had so much fun this week learning about rabbits!  Here is our learning poster for the week:

We haven't done a lot of talking about Parallelograms yet... hmm... maybe I need to get the pattern blocks out tomorrow!!  You can see our calendar beside the learning poster.  We put a shamrock sticker on every day in March and we sing the Days of the Week song every day.  Sweet Pea loves to sing and almost has this one down in less than a week!! We also usually sing This is the Day that the Lord has Made during calendar time.  For Jack be Nimble, I set out a Votive candle on the floor (unlit... duh...) and the kids jumped over it as we recited Jack be Nimble.  They loved saying "Jack jumped over the candlestick!" as they jumped over the candle.  

Here are some photos of our school room set up:

 On the shelves are Stuffed Animals, Mr. Potato Head, Barbies, and My Little Ponies.  In the clear plastic drawer are play food and dishes, dolls and doll clothes, and puppets.

 Behind the chairs is the 100s chart.  Behind the table is the ABC poster.  On the shelves are Lincoln logs, Bus, Lock & Key toy, Animals bin, K'nex, and People bin.  On the white shelves are puzzles, lego, buttons, and misc. games that wouldn't fit in the game cupboard! 

I adore these book shelves!! The first one is all Kids' fiction arranged alphabetically by author.  The 2nd and 3rd shelf are non-fiction loosely arranged according to the Dewey Decimal system.  The bottom middle shelf is coloring books.  The top shelf on the right is CDs.  On the other side of the white shelf are Preschool teaching resource books and arts and crafts books... as well as a miscellaneous sampling of homeschool books that I reference frequently!!

These shelves are the best thing about the whole room!!  They were built to hide the back of the wall oven (which takes up the entire middle shelf on the right hand side), but they hold basically all the craft supplies etc. that we use everyday!  Such as:



Math and Language Manipulatives and Games

Dishes, Preschool Towels, and Tot Tray Supplies

Paints, Perler Beads, Nature Box (Shells, Pinecones, etc.)

Playdough, Pipecleaners, Stickers, Tissue Paper, Fabric & Felt, Yarn, Paint Cups, Foamies, Wood Pieces (Popsicle sticks, skewers, clothes pins), Googly eyes & styrofoam, and Pom Poms!  Whew!

So that is the preschool... next time I'll show you the quiet room and kids bathroom, as well as some of the tot tray ideas we've been using this week!!  I'm having a blast, and I love that I'm able to do what I love out of my own home!  If I can't homeschool my own kids, this is the next best thing!!

Thanks for reading!!

Jennifer