I'm planning on doing a home based rotating preschool for this little guy in the fall with a few friends. I've been researching "Joy School" and wonder if anyone has experience with it. Likes, dislikes?... or does anyone have experience with other types of curriculum. I'd love your thoughts.
Monday, August 3, 2009
Joy School. (?)
Posted by Leslie at 9:24 PM
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when Kylie was 3 I did a rotating preschool with a bunch of friends in WA. We did it Monday and Wednesday. Each time we met we learned a new letter of the alphabet. EVERYTHING we did that day had to do with that letter. It was a lot of fun. On the last day for letter Z we all went to the zoo.
They way we organized it was...we all chipped in $10 and bought a bunch of art supplies. Then we put it all in a big box that would rotate between us all. It worked out wonderful.
The reason why I liked it was because the kids were just too little to sit for an entire lesson. They liked the activities. We would read stories, do art projects, and play games.
I think my sister Kara did the official Joy School thing. I'll have to ask her if it was worth it.
I did a joy school with Tyann last year. I had two other friends with little girls. We each took a week and we met from 9-11 Mon and Wed mornings. My friend that asked me to do joy school was really familiar with the program. She ordered it and paid for it and it was awesome. Every lesson is lined out for you with music, snack ideas, coloring pages, stories, activities, ect. It was great.
Any preschool that you touch, Leslie is bound to be a joy school...Good luck!
We did a rotating preschool last year with Tay and 2 of her friends. Not officially "joy school," but it was fun. We rotated art supplies too, and each took a week to teach. We did it twice or once a week, depending on schedules. We would choose a letter for the day, or week, and focus only on that letter. We also did field trips, and other outings. It was a lot of work on your week, but, it was worth it when you were off. ALOT better than forking out the money to pay for real preschool, I thought, and the kids learned just as much, if not more.
I've done it 2 different ways. Both times we only did it one day a week for 1 1/2 hours and that was enough for me. There were 8 kids in the group (4 girls and 4 boys). It was a little hard to handle, but then I only had to teach once every 2 months so that was awesome--and my kids liked going to so many different homes. The first time I did it it was just playtime, snacktime, and an art picture on an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of cardstock---each page was for a different letter. I loved this because then we bound them into a book and it made it easy to save everything. For example: the E page was Elmo made with red felt, and gluing on big googly eyes; D was for dinosaur and the kids had to cut triangles and glue them on the dinosaurs back for spikes; H was for hand and they dipped their hands in paint and made a page of handprints; etc. Even though all the art projects had to be made with on 8 1/2 x 11 -- they got lots of practice coloring, cutting, gluing, and working with lots of different felts, fabrics, textures, etc. The last play group I did we did more songs and stories and any art projects we wanted. It was good too---but I tend not to save all that kind of stuff.
Whoa, I did it for Dallin when he was three. We did it with 6 kids. 5 boys, 1 girl! It was pretty rough, I won't lie. I hated it when it was my turn. I still had Embree and I was preggo with Trew. We did it once a week from 9-12. (a friend had a Joy School book, it was cool) *If* I were going to do it again 4 kids would have been plenty or teaming up with another mom would have been better. That being said, GOOD LUCK and have fun!
I have to say, the Joy School songs are great. "Oh boy, I've got Joy--I do, I do." And "Here comes gunny sack or bag..." The toy eating sack that comes around if you don't put your toys away. Hilarious. The idea is that the sack eats toys and doesn't spit them back out for a prescribed time. Quite the motivation for keeping your room clean.
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