Monday- Pretty ok day until everyone walked away and I forced them back to the table. 5yo did trace a few Uu's on his unicorn page I got from first-school.ws. It was a bit difficult to find when I tried to go back to it. But just use the search option.
Then we sang some Jesus songs, and read and article in the friend. Amazingly, again, there was something that applied to kids' attitude. It was an article about a kid who was so excited to go to school and then found out that it isn't all learning about dinosaurs and trains and how bummed he was, but then his mom helped him research them on his own. My boys struggle with wanting to learn something other than what the teachers tell them to.
Watched sesamestreet.com because 5yo asked for it the day before and there were some pretty funny Uu videos. Next we went to the preschool table but the kids refused to color their Uu's from apples4theteacher.com. 2yo announced that she only wanted to cover hers in sand. Just like her Ss. I suppose that could be arranged. Preschool ended there. They didn't care about the state flag, or the number six page, or the fact that Utah's shape is like a big square with a little rectangle on it. Perhaps if I had made it with wood blocks. Hmm? Perhaps if I had had a Utah flag. That would have been really cool.
I've done a lot of rethinking about preschool this evening. I probably had plenty of coloring books with mazes and dot-to-dots and color by numbers but I bought some colorful ones from Crayola. I'm going to tone it down with the too advanced stuff and get back to daily coloring.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
Jj week
Monday- The week started off great. Kid particiapation is always good. I made a quick jungle diarama before we started. It got their attention and they followed me to the preschool table. I let them color the letter Jj while we sang the ABC song. The we talked about some J words which we don't usually do at the beginning of the week. We talked about jungle, jam, jelly, peioples' names, and Jesus. I didn't plan it. It's Monday 'My God' Day and I plan to sing songs about Jesus every Monday starting today. Beautiful segue. I had laminated different pictures of Jesus last year to use in Nursery and a sacrament quiet book. I pulled out 4 of them that represented 4 song I wanted to sing. I started with the short ones and plan to teach the others one at a time. The kids didn't sing but they listened well.
Then I read an article from the Friend Magazine and it just happened to mention one of the songs we sang. Another beautiful, unplanned segue. We put our snakes we made last week in the jungle diarama. Accidentaly left it down and two of the snakes broke. Slipped right back together with some elmer's glue. Amazing. Way to go play dough.
Then I had this great idea to have all of this groups letters represented in out diarama. Spent all day looking for an animal that lived in the jungle that started with the letter U. Never found one so I settled for the upside down tree; Baobab. My husband came home and I told him what I did today and he went to the computer and found, oh, twenty five immediately. I guess I never typed in "animals that begin with U." Two thumbs up for the husband. Two thumbs up for first-school.ws/INDEX.HTM for having coloring pages for a few of them.
Tuesday- Made my star template with the right angle. Took quite a bit of calculating. Do you want to know? Divide 360 degrees by 5. This finds the inside angle if you divide a pentagon into triangles, which is 72 degrees. Which means the other two angles of that triangle are 54 degrees because they are equal and 180 minus 72 is 108 divided by 2 is 54. There's more. Now you draw straight lines off the pentagon to make the points of the star. You add up two of the outside angles of the pentagon triangles and subtract that from 180 degrees to find the angle in the star part. So 72 degrees is the angle for each side of the triangle in the star. Add those together and subtract that from 180 degrees. 180 minus 144(or 72+72) is 36. This is the angle you need to make a triangle shape for your star template. Wasn't that easy. Bwahahaha! In the end, I made the outside of the template a circle and it looks like Pacman. Later, I thought, I could have changed the circle in the first idea into a pentagon, follow the dot-to-dot and boom, a star. Could have displayed the Pentagon with the big flag they on it in 2001.
We made a practice flag. It was left over from last week's stars and stripes activity. The kids didn't use the star templates at all. Are you surprised? I tried all of my star templates that I made. The Pacman was the best but only because I never used a compass on the other templates. 5yo did help me draw stripes on our practice flag. The down side is that we used washable markers on fabric and our hands were covered with red and blue. When 8yo came home and played with it, he was covered with blue. But it was fun and the kids were very interested in how to fold a flag.
We also talked about Lady Justice and I tried to explain the scale and the blind fold and the sword. I'm sure they didn't get it. But the next time I have to be the judge in a sibling dispute, I'll try to explain it again. I found a Brite Music packet at the library. Janeen Brady has written a lot of music for difficult subjects to teach kids. This one is called Take your hat off when the Flag Goes By! A child's Musical Introduction to the Constitution. A cd goes with it and you hear a father and son at a parade talking and singing about all sorts of good stuff. The first song talks about taking your hat off for the flag which is all I wanted the preschool kids to learn. The other topics are a little too mature for preschool.
Then we read two books covering the Pledge of Allegiance. One describes each word of the pledge. I pledge allegiance by Bill Martin Jr and Michael Sampson. The other The Pledge of Allegiance by Norman Pearl talks about the birth of the pledge and why it was created.
Then I repeated "and justice for all" while I had my hand over my heart and tried to get the kids to do the same.
Wednesday- Today didn't work out. I planned to make really big letters on the floor with jump ropes. The jump ropes were to kincked to lay flat in the way that we wanted them to. They are now draped over the bookshelf, hopefully unkincking them selves for a later day. I showed the kids how to jump rope. They were very interested, but will need a lot more exposure.
Thursday- The kids didn't really care what letter their last name started and that the person who gave it to us was dead. 5yo did seem to make new connections of who everyone's mothers and fathers were on our family tree.
Friday- I had way too many things left over for this week. I ended up needing every single one of them. 5yo is really resistant to participating. I tried to teach him how to make triangles out of strips of paper. The first one didn't work out, more of a trapazoid, and he quit. He rarely tries again with me. I have to remember that he's a perfectionist and will hopefully just do it one day when he's figured it out in his head. But I do feel like he needs to practice, at least try. I had printed out a pumkin with the word 'jack-o-lantern' on the bottom and we were going to make the whole face using triangles. My creative son knew that he wanted a long straight strip for the mouth. Luckily he was able to explain that to me.
He didn't want to glue, didn't want to tape, didn't want to draw. He did want to cut out the orange pumpkin from construction paper. (I told you I printed some pumpkins, but we had so many triangles that I wanted to make more) He asked me how to do it and I told him to cut the corners off. It didn't go very well. "I hate preschool!" I turned on the computer and went to starfall.com. I clicked on the pumpkin and taught him how to make his own virtual jack-o-lantern while I cut stems for the pumkins. I pasted everything on to the pumpkins and was able to get him to at least pick which stem went on each pumpkin. Than we hung them on the door. Then he said he wanted skeletons with red eyes and red triangle teeth that 'were all scrunchy.' I cut everything out and he put the teeth on in a scrunchy manner because I didn't do it right. Awesome- some participation.
The boys have several jungle sets and we used one of the jaguars for our jungle diarama. I was starting to read about jaguars when somebody found the jingle bells. I couldn't compete with the noise and didn't want anyone to get in trouble so we sang 'Jingle Bells,' 'Santa Clause is coming to Town,' and Sleigh Bells.' Then I whipped out the Jj page and asked them to look for the jingle bells. We talked about the other things that started with J and when I noticed that they set down their jingle bells, I took them quietly.
We then read about jaguars and as I read that jaguar cubs were blind I thought that we should have done a blind activity this week because Lady Justice is blind as well. We could have done it with the jump-ropes. Two people hold each end while someone blind folded could find their way across the room holding on to the rope. Then they could not use the rope to see how much harder it is.
Then I read an article from the Friend Magazine and it just happened to mention one of the songs we sang. Another beautiful, unplanned segue. We put our snakes we made last week in the jungle diarama. Accidentaly left it down and two of the snakes broke. Slipped right back together with some elmer's glue. Amazing. Way to go play dough.
Then I had this great idea to have all of this groups letters represented in out diarama. Spent all day looking for an animal that lived in the jungle that started with the letter U. Never found one so I settled for the upside down tree; Baobab. My husband came home and I told him what I did today and he went to the computer and found, oh, twenty five immediately. I guess I never typed in "animals that begin with U." Two thumbs up for the husband. Two thumbs up for first-school.ws/INDEX.HTM for having coloring pages for a few of them.
Tuesday- Made my star template with the right angle. Took quite a bit of calculating. Do you want to know? Divide 360 degrees by 5. This finds the inside angle if you divide a pentagon into triangles, which is 72 degrees. Which means the other two angles of that triangle are 54 degrees because they are equal and 180 minus 72 is 108 divided by 2 is 54. There's more. Now you draw straight lines off the pentagon to make the points of the star. You add up two of the outside angles of the pentagon triangles and subtract that from 180 degrees to find the angle in the star part. So 72 degrees is the angle for each side of the triangle in the star. Add those together and subtract that from 180 degrees. 180 minus 144(or 72+72) is 36. This is the angle you need to make a triangle shape for your star template. Wasn't that easy. Bwahahaha! In the end, I made the outside of the template a circle and it looks like Pacman. Later, I thought, I could have changed the circle in the first idea into a pentagon, follow the dot-to-dot and boom, a star. Could have displayed the Pentagon with the big flag they on it in 2001.
We made a practice flag. It was left over from last week's stars and stripes activity. The kids didn't use the star templates at all. Are you surprised? I tried all of my star templates that I made. The Pacman was the best but only because I never used a compass on the other templates. 5yo did help me draw stripes on our practice flag. The down side is that we used washable markers on fabric and our hands were covered with red and blue. When 8yo came home and played with it, he was covered with blue. But it was fun and the kids were very interested in how to fold a flag.
We also talked about Lady Justice and I tried to explain the scale and the blind fold and the sword. I'm sure they didn't get it. But the next time I have to be the judge in a sibling dispute, I'll try to explain it again. I found a Brite Music packet at the library. Janeen Brady has written a lot of music for difficult subjects to teach kids. This one is called Take your hat off when the Flag Goes By! A child's Musical Introduction to the Constitution. A cd goes with it and you hear a father and son at a parade talking and singing about all sorts of good stuff. The first song talks about taking your hat off for the flag which is all I wanted the preschool kids to learn. The other topics are a little too mature for preschool.
Then we read two books covering the Pledge of Allegiance. One describes each word of the pledge. I pledge allegiance by Bill Martin Jr and Michael Sampson. The other The Pledge of Allegiance by Norman Pearl talks about the birth of the pledge and why it was created.
Then I repeated "and justice for all" while I had my hand over my heart and tried to get the kids to do the same.
Wednesday- Today didn't work out. I planned to make really big letters on the floor with jump ropes. The jump ropes were to kincked to lay flat in the way that we wanted them to. They are now draped over the bookshelf, hopefully unkincking them selves for a later day. I showed the kids how to jump rope. They were very interested, but will need a lot more exposure.
Thursday- The kids didn't really care what letter their last name started and that the person who gave it to us was dead. 5yo did seem to make new connections of who everyone's mothers and fathers were on our family tree.
Friday- I had way too many things left over for this week. I ended up needing every single one of them. 5yo is really resistant to participating. I tried to teach him how to make triangles out of strips of paper. The first one didn't work out, more of a trapazoid, and he quit. He rarely tries again with me. I have to remember that he's a perfectionist and will hopefully just do it one day when he's figured it out in his head. But I do feel like he needs to practice, at least try. I had printed out a pumkin with the word 'jack-o-lantern' on the bottom and we were going to make the whole face using triangles. My creative son knew that he wanted a long straight strip for the mouth. Luckily he was able to explain that to me.
He didn't want to glue, didn't want to tape, didn't want to draw. He did want to cut out the orange pumpkin from construction paper. (I told you I printed some pumpkins, but we had so many triangles that I wanted to make more) He asked me how to do it and I told him to cut the corners off. It didn't go very well. "I hate preschool!" I turned on the computer and went to starfall.com. I clicked on the pumpkin and taught him how to make his own virtual jack-o-lantern while I cut stems for the pumkins. I pasted everything on to the pumpkins and was able to get him to at least pick which stem went on each pumpkin. Than we hung them on the door. Then he said he wanted skeletons with red eyes and red triangle teeth that 'were all scrunchy.' I cut everything out and he put the teeth on in a scrunchy manner because I didn't do it right. Awesome- some participation.
The boys have several jungle sets and we used one of the jaguars for our jungle diarama. I was starting to read about jaguars when somebody found the jingle bells. I couldn't compete with the noise and didn't want anyone to get in trouble so we sang 'Jingle Bells,' 'Santa Clause is coming to Town,' and Sleigh Bells.' Then I whipped out the Jj page and asked them to look for the jingle bells. We talked about the other things that started with J and when I noticed that they set down their jingle bells, I took them quietly.
We then read about jaguars and as I read that jaguar cubs were blind I thought that we should have done a blind activity this week because Lady Justice is blind as well. We could have done it with the jump-ropes. Two people hold each end while someone blind folded could find their way across the room holding on to the rope. Then they could not use the rope to see how much harder it is.
Ss week
Monday- Ss week had some highs and lows. One of the highs was that I remembered in my oldest son's Montessori kindergarten, he had an activity that would help him practice control with his writing. They would draw a shape using an inset ( it's kind of opposite of a cookie cutter, but you could use a cookie cutter.) Then you try to draw straight lines as close together as possible to fill up the shape. Instead of using an inset or cookie cutter, I printed out the letter of the week from Apples4theteacher.com. The lower case s is a bit strange looking but I used it anyway. I asked the kids to make the capital S a snake and fill up the lower case s with stars and stripes. Snakes, stars and stripes all start with the letter S. Stars were too much to ask but the 2yo thought she was doing a great job. 5yo did a surprisingly great job with the stripes. I made my snake and when I drew on the scutes (the scales on the belly that help him slither) I realized those were stripes as well. The down side to this day was that the 5yo got very upset that my snake looked so much better than his. Apparently, he's a perfectionist like the rest of the family.
We read an article from the Friend Magazine and then the kids helped me make play dough. I found this recipe on the Internet about 6 years ago. I tried to look for it again to know who submitted the recipe but I could not find it. It's called:
Caesar's Gold Coins, creator- unknown
2 cups water
16 drops of food coloring
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
1/2 c corn starch
2 TBSP oil
1 TBSP alum (found in the spice aisle)
Mix all the ingredients in a large sauce pan then cook over medium heat. (Don't start heating until you have all the ingredients mixed.) Cook and stir until thick and pulls away from sides of pan. Remove and knead until smooth. I usually wait until it's not so hot, but you need to knead it before it cools off completely. I always add flour to the counter and the top of the dough and knead it in. It always seems to need a bit of extra so that it's not so sticky. The original recipe said to 'roll into a thick snake and slice into coins and imprint a design. Place on cookie sheet or card board to dry. (Helps to turn them over the next day.) But we stopped at 'snake.'
I made about 6 snakes, some coiled up and some as S shapes, while the kids practiced making snakes with their dough. They usually destroy whatever they make, but they did a really good job going through the motions. It's not easy for little hands to get the dough long and skinny enough to roll on the table. But after weeks of preschool they're really starting to improve. I saved their dough for later by wrapping it in plastic wrap and sticking it into the fridge. You could leave it on the counter wrapped up, but I find the smell of old oil repulsive. It should last a little while in the fridge. And doesn't take very long for a grown up to knead it to be warm and soft for the kids to play with. I put my snakes in a shoe box and placed them up high, turning them a few times in the week.
Tuesday- Preschool didn't really happen today. I spent too much time looking up how to make a tricorn hat. My plan was to make a flag with markers and fabric and teach the kids to treat it and fold it properly. Well, the last time I tried to explain that the flag is folded to look like a tricorn hat the kids had no idea what I was talking about. The Internet hat some very professional methods, none were fast and preschool friendly. The newspaper triangle hat was going to be my last resort, but I had lost the kids' cooperation by then. I finally settled that if I every tried again, it would be to use a dollar store pirate hat (idea from a video on youtube) and staple (or sew) it in three places to make it look colonial. (I've learned that I just can't run to the store with the kids and then expect them to do preschool in the same day. Out of the question.) My next attempt later in the day was to teach them to make stars.
Several years ago I designed a star maker. But the preschoolers weren't able to do it. I cut out circle templates and wrote numbers around the edge like a dot-to-dot. Just connect the numbers with straight lines and return to 1 and you will have a star. I thought that perhaps with a ruler they would be able to make straight lines. But for my next idea, I cut out a star template and thought they could make straight lines with that but I couldn't even control my crayon and ended up tracing the outline of the star. Well in that case I could have just used a star cookie cutter. My third idea was to make a star maker using a circle with two strategically cut out lines. Well, you have to trace the circle first to keep the template in the right area and when I tried it I discovered my angles were wrong. By this time, the kids had been left alone too long without structured play and were getting in trouble with each other.
My next idea is to make another circle but cut out a triangle instead of two lines. We'll have to make the flag and tricorn hats another week when I can't think of anything else to do.
Wednesday- One missed day and the kids thought they never had to do preschool again. I waited until big brother came home and tried again. And to my delight, big brother convinced the little kids that it was fun. First we went to the sand box with more Ss print outs and glue. The printouts came from preschool express.com this time. I made their first initial on their page with glue and covered it with sand to show them how it was done. 5yo did a great job drawing the S with glue. 2yo wanted me to do her glue for her. I hope that by covering the S with sand, she will still learn the shape of the S. Shake off the excess sand and let it dry in a safe place and they make pretty cool letters.
Next we went into the family room and strung crepe paper around chair legs and pretended we were spies or secret agents. The crepe paper were security beams and the kids had to go over, under, and through to get to the other side of the room where a cd was playing salsa music. I really tried hard to look for spy music, but to no avail. Some movie clips I wanted to show were 'Wallace and Grommit, The Wrong Trousers', 'Get Smart' (but I couldn't get a hold of a copy and I wanted to preview that part for kid appropriateness), and a mystery clip that I couldn't remember the name of. Just no good. In the end I told the kids to dance to the music to get past the security beams and they caught on just fine with out the movie clips. I've got some great clips for myself now.
Unfortunately, 5yo got very annoyed with us making alarm sounds every time he touched a beam. I found this game in a game and activity book at the library last year.
Thursday- Children refused to play the 'sweep game.' I had done this for FHE about 3 years ago. I taped masking tape squares to the kitchen floor a couple of feet away from each other. Then I used a hole punch to make colorful dots. The goal is to sweep up the dots into the squares. But nobody wanted to play. They knew it was work training.
Next I tried to get them to sit still to make silhouettes of each other and me. No good until big brother got home. He's so great for thinking my ideas are fun and convincing the other kids. Of course, every one made funny faces and that's good enough. I did have trouble with the 2yo. Had to take a video of her silhouette. I used Windows Movie Maker to take a picture of a frame of the video. Now I just have to scale it to the size of the others for posterity.
Friday- Fun day! Painted our snakes. I printed out a page of different snakes, famous and in our area: the Diamond Back Rattler, the King Cobra, the Blow Snake that imitates the previous two, the Eastern Coral Snake and the Scarlet King Snake which look very similar. The kids did a great job. They're much more careful with paint than they were a year ago. The trick is to have everything ready and never leave their side. They wear over sized T-shirts, there's lots of paper towels and wet wipes handy. And I never paint when they do. I've learned to wait my turn. But luckily, they like to get cleaned up and go play, leaving me with the clean up and ample time to paint for my pleasure. It's usually hard not to paint over the kids work if I'm trying to make something for them to learn from. But this time I was able to stop myself. I wanted to paint these snakes to last a long time and be a reference for snakes they should be afraid of and snakes they can enjoy. Sometimes, preschool is all about me and what I want to learn.
We read an article from the Friend Magazine and then the kids helped me make play dough. I found this recipe on the Internet about 6 years ago. I tried to look for it again to know who submitted the recipe but I could not find it. It's called:
Caesar's Gold Coins, creator- unknown
2 cups water
16 drops of food coloring
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
1/2 c corn starch
2 TBSP oil
1 TBSP alum (found in the spice aisle)
Mix all the ingredients in a large sauce pan then cook over medium heat. (Don't start heating until you have all the ingredients mixed.) Cook and stir until thick and pulls away from sides of pan. Remove and knead until smooth. I usually wait until it's not so hot, but you need to knead it before it cools off completely. I always add flour to the counter and the top of the dough and knead it in. It always seems to need a bit of extra so that it's not so sticky. The original recipe said to 'roll into a thick snake and slice into coins and imprint a design. Place on cookie sheet or card board to dry. (Helps to turn them over the next day.) But we stopped at 'snake.'
I made about 6 snakes, some coiled up and some as S shapes, while the kids practiced making snakes with their dough. They usually destroy whatever they make, but they did a really good job going through the motions. It's not easy for little hands to get the dough long and skinny enough to roll on the table. But after weeks of preschool they're really starting to improve. I saved their dough for later by wrapping it in plastic wrap and sticking it into the fridge. You could leave it on the counter wrapped up, but I find the smell of old oil repulsive. It should last a little while in the fridge. And doesn't take very long for a grown up to knead it to be warm and soft for the kids to play with. I put my snakes in a shoe box and placed them up high, turning them a few times in the week.
Tuesday- Preschool didn't really happen today. I spent too much time looking up how to make a tricorn hat. My plan was to make a flag with markers and fabric and teach the kids to treat it and fold it properly. Well, the last time I tried to explain that the flag is folded to look like a tricorn hat the kids had no idea what I was talking about. The Internet hat some very professional methods, none were fast and preschool friendly. The newspaper triangle hat was going to be my last resort, but I had lost the kids' cooperation by then. I finally settled that if I every tried again, it would be to use a dollar store pirate hat (idea from a video on youtube) and staple (or sew) it in three places to make it look colonial. (I've learned that I just can't run to the store with the kids and then expect them to do preschool in the same day. Out of the question.) My next attempt later in the day was to teach them to make stars.
Several years ago I designed a star maker. But the preschoolers weren't able to do it. I cut out circle templates and wrote numbers around the edge like a dot-to-dot. Just connect the numbers with straight lines and return to 1 and you will have a star. I thought that perhaps with a ruler they would be able to make straight lines. But for my next idea, I cut out a star template and thought they could make straight lines with that but I couldn't even control my crayon and ended up tracing the outline of the star. Well in that case I could have just used a star cookie cutter. My third idea was to make a star maker using a circle with two strategically cut out lines. Well, you have to trace the circle first to keep the template in the right area and when I tried it I discovered my angles were wrong. By this time, the kids had been left alone too long without structured play and were getting in trouble with each other.
My next idea is to make another circle but cut out a triangle instead of two lines. We'll have to make the flag and tricorn hats another week when I can't think of anything else to do.
Wednesday- One missed day and the kids thought they never had to do preschool again. I waited until big brother came home and tried again. And to my delight, big brother convinced the little kids that it was fun. First we went to the sand box with more Ss print outs and glue. The printouts came from preschool express.com this time. I made their first initial on their page with glue and covered it with sand to show them how it was done. 5yo did a great job drawing the S with glue. 2yo wanted me to do her glue for her. I hope that by covering the S with sand, she will still learn the shape of the S. Shake off the excess sand and let it dry in a safe place and they make pretty cool letters.
Next we went into the family room and strung crepe paper around chair legs and pretended we were spies or secret agents. The crepe paper were security beams and the kids had to go over, under, and through to get to the other side of the room where a cd was playing salsa music. I really tried hard to look for spy music, but to no avail. Some movie clips I wanted to show were 'Wallace and Grommit, The Wrong Trousers', 'Get Smart' (but I couldn't get a hold of a copy and I wanted to preview that part for kid appropriateness), and a mystery clip that I couldn't remember the name of. Just no good. In the end I told the kids to dance to the music to get past the security beams and they caught on just fine with out the movie clips. I've got some great clips for myself now.
Unfortunately, 5yo got very annoyed with us making alarm sounds every time he touched a beam. I found this game in a game and activity book at the library last year.
Thursday- Children refused to play the 'sweep game.' I had done this for FHE about 3 years ago. I taped masking tape squares to the kitchen floor a couple of feet away from each other. Then I used a hole punch to make colorful dots. The goal is to sweep up the dots into the squares. But nobody wanted to play. They knew it was work training.
Next I tried to get them to sit still to make silhouettes of each other and me. No good until big brother got home. He's so great for thinking my ideas are fun and convincing the other kids. Of course, every one made funny faces and that's good enough. I did have trouble with the 2yo. Had to take a video of her silhouette. I used Windows Movie Maker to take a picture of a frame of the video. Now I just have to scale it to the size of the others for posterity.
Friday- Fun day! Painted our snakes. I printed out a page of different snakes, famous and in our area: the Diamond Back Rattler, the King Cobra, the Blow Snake that imitates the previous two, the Eastern Coral Snake and the Scarlet King Snake which look very similar. The kids did a great job. They're much more careful with paint than they were a year ago. The trick is to have everything ready and never leave their side. They wear over sized T-shirts, there's lots of paper towels and wet wipes handy. And I never paint when they do. I've learned to wait my turn. But luckily, they like to get cleaned up and go play, leaving me with the clean up and ample time to paint for my pleasure. It's usually hard not to paint over the kids work if I'm trying to make something for them to learn from. But this time I was able to stop myself. I wanted to paint these snakes to last a long time and be a reference for snakes they should be afraid of and snakes they can enjoy. Sometimes, preschool is all about me and what I want to learn.
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