joy school

  Jared has been doing a little joy school for a few weeks now on Thursday mornings.  Last week and this week are my weeks to teach.  I have letters C and D.  I did letter C last week.  We practiced writing the letter C on lined whiteboards.  We made black cat hats.  They played with cars, plastic chocolates (matching), and cutting wooden food toys.  We read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" while they threaded the different food onto the caterpillar. Then they got to make caterpillars out of cucumber, carrots, crackers & cheese, and chocolate chips for a snack.  We also read "Click, Clack, Moo."  They did a sorting and counting caterpillar and they counted and colored the spots on cows, cookies, and caterpillars.  I got some cute things off of a website here.  She has free downloads in her posts or you can buy her entire letter set for $10.  It was only Jared and Marielle (and Owen) for right now, but it was fun to plan and do something structured with them. If you don't have Pre-K or don't want to pay for preschool programs, I highly recommend doing a joy school with friends.  There are so many easily accessible resources out there.