Joy School Day 2

 The boys are the most content during free choice.  These three spent the entire time playing at the train table.

 Kalea is also perfectly content playing with the babies in the house

 Gracie likes to check everything out.  She played in each area today.

 Jordan loves the Felt Board. Jaycnthe loved exploring all the different areas as well. 

 Gracie found one of the apple books in the magazine rack and was reading aloud to herself. 

 Kalea and the slide. 

 Jaycnthe and her Puppy Friend!

 Liana, loved the writing area today. Stamps and envelopes.  Jordan also spent a little time here today.

And the boys still remain at the train table.  :)

Today was a great day!  I will most likely run the Joy School this way for the rest of the time it is at my house. 

I think with every house being different things are going to be adjusted according to your space.  I understand that and I think that is the Joy of Joy School!  Things will be changed up every month in some ways but remain consistent in other ways :)

The kids found their pictures and did their attendance!   I loved this :)  Thanks Stephanie!  It turned out awesome!

Backpacks on the stairs and their snacks go in the kitchen on the table at their spot.

All these activities reinforce name and letter identification.  

We then started the day with our craft/Fine motor skill.  Many of the kids are new to pasting.  Some just wanted to paste one square on and be done.  For these kids, I put little dots of glue all over their apples and had them cover them with red paper.  I then had them practice putting their own glue on 

the paper. 

We did this craft for a good 15 minutes.

We then went downstairs, and the found their Mats.

Helpers:

Pledge: Liana

Prayer : Kalea

Calendar: Ty

Line Leader: Xander

Weather: Jordan

Snack/Attendance:  Jaycnthe

After the Calendar I sing the song..."Days of the Week"  Sung to the tune of Adams Family.

(Hopefully they will catch on and start singing with me!)

After the Weather, I sing the Weather song.

What is the Weather the Weather the Weather, What is the Weather like today?

Jordan says it's rainy, rainy, rainy.  Jordan says the weather is rainy today!

(Again the idea is that they will start singing with me!)

I read two books, one about Apples, (Non Fiction) and one about Colors (Fiction)

I told the story of "Scat the Cat"  Focus on Colors (File Folder story I have).

Then we had Free choice.  Sorry my pictures are not that great, but I take them with my phone and I figure something is better then nothing.  It gives you an idea about what is going on.

After Free Choice, I gathered them again and we did some movement songs and we Fed Mrs. Hungry Mungry Apples.  Focusing again on Big A and Little a :)

We then went upstairs for Snack at 11am.  This works the best for me.  To have Snack at the end of the day.  It is too hard for me to transition from Snack earlier and then back to something else.

This solves the problem of some kids finishing earlier then others.  When the kids are done with their snack, they can look at books, play with the toys I have upstairs or finish up the craft they did to start the day.

This worked really well for me.  

Next week we are Focusing on the Letter B!

The theme is Little and Big things!  :)