Preschool again
Hypatia announced the other day that she “needed” to paint. As I watched her working, I realized that she’s been missing out on some of that stuff that I did with Carbon while we had daycare here. I jumped into preschool with both feet with Carbon, doing all the arts and crafts and alphabet stuff and number games. Hypatia just tags along, for the most part, on whatever Carbon is getting.
That’s not going to work, and clearly she wants work of her own. She has been asking for her own homework to take to their nanny’s house, so I got an “I Can Trace” workbook and I bought the new My First Bob Books set so she can have a Bob book when Carbon does. She wants to play boardgames, and I think it’s time for me to make a math game box for her like I had for Carbon.
She also has developed a much greater interest and attention span for read-alouds, so I am spending much longer on her bedtime story each day, and she picks out big stacks of books at the library. She has different taste than Carbon did – he was all about the science books and stories about boys and dinosaurs, and she likes fairytales and animal stories.
Of course, the great thing is that Carbon will hover or participate in what I put together for Hypatia, so he gets a review of all that fun preschool stuff. And she hovers or participates in what I put together for Carbon, so she’s getting a preview of K/1st. Multi-age classroom synergy is a beautiful thing.
I love that! P enjoys doing “pre-school” stuff
when we have younger kids here for one reason or another.
She also loves to “teach”.lol
Sara, it’s so funny, because I was just thinking the same thing about my youngest. He just tags along with what the older guys are doing. When the older guys were his age, I was doing daily preschool. I need to start doing some school just for him!
But the younger ones learn so much from tagging along, don’t they?
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