Preschool Pandemonium

I have made it through four days of teaching the Mother's Day Out program. More importantly, so have the kids! I've had five kids in my class the past two days. It is definitely a challenge, but I really enjoy it! I turned in my lesson plans for this week on Friday, she said they looked great! I took some ideas from the curriculum, some ideas from other places, and a couple of things that I just thought up! My child development background, as well as my knowledge of behavior techniques is really coming in handy! However, I know it'll get easier after we've established our daily schedule. It already is going much better just after a few days!

We've done several craft projects, the one I'm most proud of is the United States maps that they painted yesterday. I found a coloring page map, printed it out, got some red, white & blue paint. The kids had fun painting their maps, then they put red glitter on top of it. I then cut out the maps today and glued them on blue construction paper. I thought they all turned out very well, and the parents liked them, too! I may post some pictures of the projects on here!