Preschool

I'm savoring the last moments of Carissa in preschool. She has such a wonderful time at Tinkertime preschool and loves Teacher Theresa and Miss Kim. Plus she's learned so much ... the most important being the zoo-phonics which have helped Carissa learn to read.

Last night was the Tinkertime Science Fair. Carissa and her friend Daphne were on a team together to try to determine the most common eye color amongst those at the science fair. They loved this because they got to glue M&M's on their chart that match the eye colors. So we had some nice piles of brown, blue & green M&M's. Of course, they munched the leftovers after the experiment had been completed. By the way, blue eyes won out though brown eyes weren't far behind! The poor green eyes came in way behind.

Today I got to be the teacher helper at preschool. This is usually done by Miss Kim, but Teacher Theresa had other plans today so Miss Kim was teacher and I became assistant. I had done co-op preschooling (where you spend one or two days a month helping out in the classroom) with my boys, but had never had the chance with Carissa. So this was my chance to really get an idea of what they do all day. During free time we played some games then I read 7 or 8 books to the kids. We moved to circle time and did some songs and games there before heading outside to play. Then it was inside to snack and back to circle time for sharing. It was such a great time! I forget how fun it is in preschool!

But the sad part to this all is that she only has 15 more days of preschool. :( We're both going to miss Teacher Theresa and Tinkertime preschool!