Preschool Curriculum

We tried to convince our preschool dropout to give it another go this fall. With all the Kindergarten excitement, we thought he might want to try it, but it's been a NO GO all summer. Our first day of HOME preschool we talked about:

• The letter A
• Days of the week
• The month of September
• The acorn in Chicken Little

and lastly, at Ethan's insistence, we had a lesson on...

• How to blow a bubble with bubblegum.

Many of you are probably wondering why, given Ethan's history, would I allow him gum. Well, he is a boy full of surprises, one of which is that he loves gum, and has always chewed it responsibly.

After a bit of chewing it was still not ready so he took a coloring break.

Finally, the right consistency.

After a detailed demonstration from me and about two minutes of trying he gave up and said, "okay, what's next?" I responded that we were done for the day.

He was so ticked and felt that I was an ill-prepared and incompetent teacher and said, "I want to go to REAL preschool!" HALLELUJAH! I got up and ran-- not walked, but ran-- to the phone to see if Ms. Mai had any openings left. YAHOO she did. I told him if I paid he had to go, no backing out, and no changing his mind.

I think his motivation in going and staying is the little cutie below, his good friend Nyah. It doesn't hurt that he gets to ride to and from school on her golf cart.