Sweet dreams

Today ends our 2 week theme sleep tight. The kids really enjoyed learning about counting sheep, that stars are rounded and not pointy.
One of the reasons I love teaching preschool is because of the excitement they get over the smallest thing. Their brains are so curious and they are eager to learn.
 Having an inhome daycare can have some challenges because of the mixed ages and planning things that the older children will learn from, but still having toddlers that need things simple.
funshine express makes it simpler to get activties based on age. Buttercups are for 6 months to 36 months. Fireflies, which I currently use, are for ages 3-5, they have a faith based curriculum and then jitterbugs 6-10.
 Every month I know I will get age apporiate activties and a ton of facts that those sponge brains can still soak up.
If you are new to lesson planning or in home or just need a curriculum ,funshine is perfect. On the teacher guide it outlines an activity for Math, music, gross motor, creative arts, literacy and social and emotional. Even one for dramatic play.


Yesterday we talked about dreams and what dreams are. Some are scary, some are funny, some are sad. I had one girl , with the biggest smile "my dreams are about princesses all the time, so they are always happy."

 

We pretended we were sheep jumping over the fence.

I had some stuffed animals so I got those out and then it was their turn to jump over the fence .

   This was a felt story about a girl who made a wish upon a star. Felt peices were provided by funshine.

We made a wishing pouch yesterday and put 3 wishes in. 

It's always a fun day when the funshine box arrives and we open it up to aim much learning.

These are the books we read and because we had Pj day, the perfectly perfect pajamas was the perfect book.

We look forward to jumping right into Let's give thanks.