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The past two weeks have been hard. Been back to the point I want to throw the towel in but I deep down love my job just have extremely hard kids. GREAT families, good kids (I know that sounds contradicting with them being hard) but it just depends on the mix of kids that I have on certain days. I know that I love teaching preschool only (have done that in the past) but with the economy no one is looking for preschool only! God has blessed me with dck during this time and I'm very grateful. It just seems sometimes I have more bad days than good days.
So, I'm doing a redo this weekend. I will be using the preschool room, kitchen and livingroom for when the school age kids are here. I think it will help mornings go alot smoother without everyone being in the same room.
For my preschool room, I just moved my preschool table that sits 8. The way I moved it should cut down on running! That made me feel good right away. I'm putting the train table in storage for now. I was so excited to get it two months ago but seriously it causes nothing but grief. Maybe bring it back out in a year! That will open up some more room for nothing!!! We can put the car mat there when we are playing.
Going to clean out my game/puzzle shelves. See what I really have and what we can use or get rid of. Rearrange and get things better organized.
Cleaning off my bar totally!!!! Going to put a hard puzzle up there for SA to work on. That way little ones won't be disturbing it during the day. Something they can work on everday till done or just somewhere to work on them.
My kitchen table will turn into a craft table right after breakfast! Will have stuff ready to go and then put onto the table as soon as little ones are down.
Going to put games down on the kitchen floor for SA to play. Give them somewhere away from the little ones. Will set some out everday to choose from but limiting it to two players a game. That way less competition, arguing, people being around the game.
In my livingroom I'm going to put coloring sheets, word games along with colored pencils. markers, crayons.
I think I will also put some hulahoops down for the preschoolers to have toy area's. That way they won't be all over the room. I'm also going to set up a craft area for them along with a coloring area. In the craft area we may do left over crafts from our curriculum we do, playdough, holiday crafts, etc. I think I will do this every other day and then the other days set up games/puzzles for them.
This group doesn't do well with any free play/dance/anything unless we are outside. Even with me right on top of them. So I'm trying to decide how to run our day for preschool. If I let the kids that don't want to do it not particiapate it turns into chaos to quickly. This is the first time in 16/17 years I have had children not want to to the preschool portion so I'm at a total loss of what to do.
If anyone has anymore activities or suggestions feel free to post!!!!
This has to work out as this group is making me feel burned out. I feel bad for my hubby because he has started hearing nothing but frustration from me and I get more frustrated because I feel like all I do is gripe.
So, I'm doing a redo this weekend. I will be using the preschool room, kitchen and livingroom for when the school age kids are here. I think it will help mornings go alot smoother without everyone being in the same room.
For my preschool room, I just moved my preschool table that sits 8. The way I moved it should cut down on running! That made me feel good right away. I'm putting the train table in storage for now. I was so excited to get it two months ago but seriously it causes nothing but grief. Maybe bring it back out in a year! That will open up some more room for nothing!!! We can put the car mat there when we are playing.
Going to clean out my game/puzzle shelves. See what I really have and what we can use or get rid of. Rearrange and get things better organized.
Cleaning off my bar totally!!!! Going to put a hard puzzle up there for SA to work on. That way little ones won't be disturbing it during the day. Something they can work on everday till done or just somewhere to work on them.
My kitchen table will turn into a craft table right after breakfast! Will have stuff ready to go and then put onto the table as soon as little ones are down.
Going to put games down on the kitchen floor for SA to play. Give them somewhere away from the little ones. Will set some out everday to choose from but limiting it to two players a game. That way less competition, arguing, people being around the game.
In my livingroom I'm going to put coloring sheets, word games along with colored pencils. markers, crayons.
I think I will also put some hulahoops down for the preschoolers to have toy area's. That way they won't be all over the room. I'm also going to set up a craft area for them along with a coloring area. In the craft area we may do left over crafts from our curriculum we do, playdough, holiday crafts, etc. I think I will do this every other day and then the other days set up games/puzzles for them.
This group doesn't do well with any free play/dance/anything unless we are outside. Even with me right on top of them. So I'm trying to decide how to run our day for preschool. If I let the kids that don't want to do it not particiapate it turns into chaos to quickly. This is the first time in 16/17 years I have had children not want to to the preschool portion so I'm at a total loss of what to do.
If anyone has anymore activities or suggestions feel free to post!!!!
This has to work out as this group is making me feel burned out. I feel bad for my hubby because he has started hearing nothing but frustration from me and I get more frustrated because I feel like all I do is gripe.
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