Since there’s no time like the present, Prairie Elms preschool reconvened for the 2018-2019 school year on Monday.
I planned for two students, expecting that we’d do preschool while the little girls were napping –
but, so far, neither girl has cooperated with anything more than cursory morning naps – so four students it is!
We do action songs and fingerplays and rhythm sticks and singing lessons. We check the weather and sing the days of the week. We sing the alphabet song and count a little. We read and read and read some more. We do ice cream cone math. And when we’re all done with “school”, we scrub potatoes (sensory win!) and fold laundry (life skills and fine motor). We decorate papa’s birthday cake (Happy birthday, Beloved!) We watch the garden spider on our door. We explore the leaf mould in the herb garden. We harvest basil and dry it. We watch caterpillars and birds and rolly pollies and all sorts of things mama later discovers are pests that she should have killed :-P
And when the day is done, we snuggle on the couch with papa and do our family worship.
It’s not much different than regular life, really.
But whatever it is, we’ve declared the preschool year to have commenced!
Your kids are getting so big!