Our Busy Days!

As you are all aware, it has been VERY hot out the last few weeks and therefore difficult for us to play outside too much, plus it has been very rainy this summer. To make up for our days we were stuck inside playing we have been busy on the go and will try and continue to do so for the remainder of the summer.

Friday, we were fortunate enough to be able to load up the kids and take a field trip to Leavenworth Park to play on the playground and have a picnic. It got hot right before we left but the kids had a blast and got really sandy and dirty, which is always fun! This weekend it came to my attention that there is a free sprinkler park and playground only about a mile from my house, so seeing as today is supposed to be the nicest day this week, we decided to take a field trip there too. The kids had so much fun. We played in the water and then got really dirty in our swimsuits on the playground and then went back to the water to wash off and play some more. It tuckered the kids out! They were falling asleep over their grilled hot dogs afterwards. We missed Jared, he would have had fun, so we'll have to go back again real soon!

In my previous post I discussed how when and what type of curriculum we were going to be starting. As it turns out that curriculum wasn't currently available as I had thought. However, I have decided that our preschool hours and work will fall in line with the regular school year (Sept. - May). This way the kids get a summer vacation like most other kids. They are too restless to pay much attention to a lot of learning, and we want to get as much outside time as we can! But I am already working on our Fall curriculum and we will have some fun new things planned such as color days where we all wear a certain color and learn about it and get our picture taken, and letter days, and show and tell, and movie days, and pajama days, and hopefully some new field trips that I am working on. We are going to hopefully have some guest speakers with my daycare provider friends about Fire Safety from a Fire Fighter, a Police officer to discuss stranger danger, and more! I am very excited. So August will be our last summer month then we will start our preschool days! Please let me know if you ever have any suggestions for activities, crafts, meals, snacks or themes. I am ALWAYS looking for new ideas and I want to know what you would like to see your children doing this year!

In January and the end of May, I am also going to provide you all with a sort of parent teacher conference to tell you what we've been learning, where your child is in the learning process, show you their portfolio, go over the parent handbook as a refresher and cover any questions or concerns you may have!

This is going to be a great year I hope and I look forward to teaching our kids and having lots of fun! Please enjoy the slide show below of our most recent adventures!