my third job...

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immediately after i took claire's picture, mya jumped into place.



alphabet floor puzzle from  bx

i say it jokingly, but i do feel as though i have a third job as a private preschool teacher. ha. i was feeling more torn now that claire is three and not enrolled in a preschools. i decided to provide a bit more structured support at home to compensate for what she may be missing. here are some of our little lessons and activities. my focus is strictly on helping her become more aware of letters and their sounds. she is solid on her vocabulary use and understanding, conceptual use and understanding, counting, etc., but has limited ability to identify letters and know what sounds they make. i do tie writing into our lessons, but i could care less at this point if she actually write the letter 'f.' i simply do it because writing seems to mean 'school' to her.

i can't seem to place a caption on some of the pictures, so i'll just give the details here. this week was fire prevention week, so i used that theme to create our lesson. i read the book, then created the fireman hats, moving on to making a firetruck picture out of 2 different shapes--rectangles and circles, and finally working on writing /f's/. mya does all the activities as well, but i obviously have to help her.