This year of Joyschool has proven such a wonderful experience. Not only does it provide meaningful time with my children, it also extends me to others around me. I have loved the experience this year. We focused on the letters of the alphabet and their sounds, numbers up to 10, and various life lessons. Since I plan on doing this again, I am going to write down some of the things I would like to include this year. I think some of the topics we had could be extended to a much larger units, such as
Wellness: stress/destressing, exercise, eating healthy foods, work, play
social skills: Being a peacemaker, sharing/taking turns (play games where we have to share or take turns), table manners, accepting differences, Making new friends, etc....
Safety: emergency preparedness, rules/laws,
One of the things that I would like to change during joyschool is feeling pressure to plan my lesson around the holidays. It felt like there was ALWAYS a holiday coming up that we were basing our lessons around. I am okay including holidays with our curriculum, but it felt kind of silly like holidays were the only thing we needed to learn about. They are good to know.
I would like to be better at talking about the days of the week and months of the year. Perhaps I will make a fun joyschool calendar to follow. it will have different pictures to represent birthdays and holidays and we can talk about the days of the week and the months of the year as well as things coming up. It would be good for them to get a sens of time. Also with clocks. Maybe always do certain things at certain times and talk about those times. I liked having things open that we could be creative with our teaching and not feel bad if we didn't follow it exactly.
Wellness: stress/destressing, exercise, eating healthy foods, work, play
social skills: Being a peacemaker, sharing/taking turns (play games where we have to share or take turns), table manners, accepting differences, Making new friends, etc....
Safety: emergency preparedness, rules/laws,
One of the things that I would like to change during joyschool is feeling pressure to plan my lesson around the holidays. It felt like there was ALWAYS a holiday coming up that we were basing our lessons around. I am okay including holidays with our curriculum, but it felt kind of silly like holidays were the only thing we needed to learn about. They are good to know.
I would like to be better at talking about the days of the week and months of the year. Perhaps I will make a fun joyschool calendar to follow. it will have different pictures to represent birthdays and holidays and we can talk about the days of the week and the months of the year as well as things coming up. It would be good for them to get a sens of time. Also with clocks. Maybe always do certain things at certain times and talk about those times. I liked having things open that we could be creative with our teaching and not feel bad if we didn't follow it exactly.
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