….or anything extra, for that matter. We did good to finish up our apple unit last week. G had his four-year-old checkup on Friday morning — good report all around, but this checkup came complete with four (yes, four) shots all at once. Not easy to prepare for…and not any easier to get through. I don’t know who’s more relieved it’s over — G or me.
A death in my mom’s side of the family made for a full weekend and very sad hearts. Lastly, we ended our Sunday with a grand finale of a surprise fire ant attack on G – - 25+ bites in less than 20 seconds. Two phone calls and two medicines later, he was okay – - but I was a wreck! I am just now getting up the energy and enthusiasm to plan next week’s activities. Even still, we may take tomorrow off and don it house cleaning day, then start fresh on Tuesday.
The latter part of last week was a bit more unstructured school-wise. We had done about all you can do with apples! The last little activity was apple seed counting. We used raisins as “seeds” and the children placed the correct number of “seeds” on paper apples according to the number shown. They zipped right through it.
I pulled out some of our Montessori-inspired activities and the kids enjoyed them immensely. I am beginning to think that G, if not R, too, is a kinetic learner. He is all about working with objects and doing things with his hands. A visual learner myself, I am being stretched a little as I try and meet those needs without losing our structure and overall learning goals. Thank goodness 90% of preschool learning is in the form of playing!
We’ve received one of two of the culture swap packages in the mail. I think I will wait until just the right time to open them with the kids. It might be the absolute perfect rainy day activity — we have some rain headed our way later this week.
As you can tell, we’re back to self-assembled curriculum, picked and planned by yours truly. I was not entirely happy with what we were getting out of the mail-order kits — it did not justify the cost seeing as I was only choosing and doing about 50% of the suggested activities each week. The thing I DO love is their Biblical kit…but unfortunately it costs more in shipping than the monthly kit themselves, and you cannot opt to have future units shipped all at once. Does anyone have any suggestions on preschool-aged Bible activities and units (in book form) available at a local Christian retailer?
More reviews will be up on Muse Reviews this week. Be sure to stop by.
I think that’s all the news for today. More to come later as we explore this week’s learning theme: Stars!
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Amber (3 years ago)
Wow – that sounds like a wee bit stressful in the health department! We are starting an apple theme this week. I pretty much have every kids’ book on apples from the library at my house right now. LOL.