Last Day of Preschool!

Well, it was a little bitter-sweet...like it always is...I really enjoy teaching and it has been such a great experience running a preschool on my own, but on the other hand, I am really excited about the spare time I am going to have! These kids were so fun, and I learned a TON about doing a preschool by myself! Thanks to all of the parents (and kids) for making it such a fun year!!

Our last day was really fun! We had a parade! (Up at school I heard about another class doing a parade for their kids and it sounded so fun, but I never got a chance to actually see a lesson plan or see anybody do a parade day and I thought it would be a fun way to end the year!) The week before was spent preparing for our parade. Since this was their last "project" I let them decide everything-from what instruments to make to how to make/decorate our floats. Then on the day of the parade we invited the parents to come to the park near my house and watch the parade and then have a picnic! All of the kids looked so cute in their costumes pulling the floats! It was a fun way to end the year!

Last day of preschool

Here they are marching (I couldn't get the best picture because I was behind them, but you get the idea!)

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even Easton got in on the action!

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Funnest Preschool Week Ever!

So this last week has probably been my favorite week of preschool that I have ever done so I thought I would post about it! It was a lot of fun to be able to talk about Christmas --I wasn't allowed up at school so I took major advantage of it!

On Tuesday I did an entire day on the book, "The Polar Express"! It was a blast! I had all of the children come to school in their pajamas. Then they were given a ticket to board our polar express train (I just had the chairs lined up like a train)

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After everyone was aboard the train I used a book on CD to read the book (it had all of the train sound effects and voices so it kept the kids attention a lot better than me). When the story was over I "accidentally" bumped a chair and all the children discovered there was a silver bell under their chairs! We then sat and had Hot cocoa and chocolates just like in the book! Such a fun day!

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Thursday was our last day at preschool until January so we had our Christmas party! We read the book, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and made an ornament for the parents. Then, the best part of all...Santa came to our class and gave everyone a present! The kids went crazy when Santa got there and they were all so excited to get a present from the Big Guy himself!! You can click on this picture to see everyone with Santa...

Christmas @ Preschool

P.S--does Santa look a little familiar to anyone?? If he does, I will tell you that it took a WHOLE lot of persuasion and I was told that I wasn't allowed to take pictures...but honestly, who could resist this?!?!