Thursday, February 12, 2009

yikes!

O.k. it's been a really long time since I've blogged. yikes! That also means not a whole lot has been going on w/preschool, either. ;( I have a lot going on lately which has put preschool on the back burner. Not that we haven't done a few things here and there, but nothing to "write home about." We did get back into the swing of things a little today. We're doing a unit on "Families." We started off by looking through magazines and cutting out pictures of families. Carter then glued them on construction paper. We talked about the people and the pictures and I taught him the ASL signs for each of the family members. Then we did a basic family tree. We also talked about what the different roles of people in a family are and how we do things together. We also talked about how we live in a house together (versus animals who live outside and what kind of homes they might have.). Hmmm... what else? Oh, I plan to cut out construction paper shapes for a house and then after nap we'll glue them onto construction paper. On different parts of the house Carter will tell me his address, phone number, parents' names, etc. and I will write them down. I guess that's about all for now. :) If you have any ideas to share, please do! :)

2 comments:

CALAMITY JANE said...

wow, that all sounds great! one thing i did with sky a while ago (although this might be too old for carter) was walk the neighborhood and draw a picture map of the house, the trees, neighbors' houses, fences, etc. and then we labeled everything. we were doing more of a mapping unit, though, but maybe it could be applied to families? maybe just inside the house? i don't know, this probably doesn't help at all :) but it was fun, anyway :)

becky@purposefulhomemaking.com said...

velvet,
i had thought about a map idea--maybe when the weather gets nice (not soon enough!) we can do something cool like that. it'd be fun to do a buried "treasure" too. :)

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