Big Energy-Little Learners...Can I do it all?

Bible Day 3- We moved on today and talked about money changers in the temple.  Jesus was angry people were using the temple as a market and we talked about why.  I went over how we don't have money changers in our home and why we wouldn't like that.  One of the same reason Jesus was upset. Day 4- The bible story was about tax collecting.  The Dragons don't understand taxes so this story wasn't as intriguing as other bible stories. The main thing we talked about was giving God what is Gods. Like our hearts, life, and conversations.    Alphabet After we cleaned our coins we used them to make coin rubbings.   The Dragons made little coin books   Then made coin impressions on their letter m printable Using a brown marker, crayon, and colored pencil The Dragons wrote m's in their alphabet notebooks.  I had The Dragons trade utensils every 5 minutes so they would have multiple ways to practice h...

Today we wrapped up our letter x activities.  I am pleasantly surprised that I was able to finish the week in a week. I thought I might need the weekend days to finish up. Sensory Activity My lesson plan calls for a sensory activity each week. We may explore things that may be considered sensory but these once a week activities are more the 'sensory bin' types or small world play. I ended up with two bins this week.  1 planned, 1 spontaneous but it worked out great! As you know we have been practicing rectangles.  As I was cleaning up toys I noticed a lot of the toys were rectangles. What a perfect way to practice rectangles! The second bin was a rice sensory bin.   To go along with our explorers theme I hid purple gems in the rice for my little dragon to find.  He had to explore the rice to find the gems. I thought he would enjoy finding them all but every one he found he buried again.  Therefore the rice is still full of gems. :) Circl...

I had six kids on Monday which is not custom.  It sounds like a lot, it sounded overwhelming when I agreed to do it, but it ended up being a good day.  The kids did a great job keeping each other occupied so they were not looking to me as much for entertainment.   I liked it! I could leave the room and prepare snacks without having three to four people in the kitchen, and I have a very small kitchen.  They all were so excited to play together that I was able to leave the room  unnoticed. My plan was to let the kids entertain each other and I was going to plan a few activities for them but I ended up structuring into more of a preschool environment.   The big reason I did this is because Athena's sister was over visiting on Monday.  When I was tucking her into bed Sunday she asked if we could do Athena's home school and a craft.  I couldn't say no. I did not set up stations.  During free time they played with stuffed animals toge...