My daughter, who is a preschool teacher, always comes back
exhausted but really excited from school and has a lot of tales to tell us
every day. She has so many interesting episodes to narrate involving the
children in school that we wait for her return to bring back some excitement of
early childhood in our lives. The moment we see her smiling face, we know that
she is bursting to tell us all about an interesting episode or what one of her
favorite kids did.
She has been teaching for the past four years in early childcare programs in Folsom CA and
just loves spending time with the tiny tots. The little children too love her a
lot and always keep giving her little cards made in their own hand.
Group Activity
Today when
she returned, she was all excited and before we could ask, she began her tale.
She said, “Dad do you know what the children did today? We had a lot of fun. I got them to work on a
huge rainbow. You know it was about 4’ by 4’. We had pasted a chart paper on a
board and kept it in the centre of the room. Then I had placed seven tubes of
paint with the seven colors of the rainbow next to it.
“First I showed them a slide about a rainbow and explained how a rainbow is formed and about the different colors in the rainbow. You know the children are so smart; they immediately started telling me about their own imagination of the rainbow. It was so hilarious. Anyway they were all so excited that they were going to paint the rainbow. First I drew seven arcs on the chart paper and write the name of the color in each arc. Then I explained to them the sequence of the colors and told them where which color was to be put. I made them come to me one at a time and gave them a blob each of one color from the tube in their hands. Then I asked them to rub their hands together without touching their clothes.
“Once they had the color spread evenly across both their
palms, I told them to come one by one and put an imprint on the chart in the
relevant color arc. They were all so excited and laughing in gay abandon. They
felt delighted putting their palm print on the chart. When one color was done,
I made them wash their hands and started off with the next color. We carried on
this way till all seven colors were done. The end result was so beautiful. And
you know what, by the time we finished the painting, the children knew the
colors of the rainbow by heart. They were all so delighted. ”
Hearing her enthusiasm and seeing the twinkle in her eye as
she spoke about the activity that she had conducted, I realized that earlychildcare programs in Folsom CA were
really effective and the children were in good hands. To match her enthusiasm,
I offered to come to her institution the next day and have a look at the
painting of the rainbow. It is always great fun to visit such institutions and
spend some time with children. She was delighted at my offer and asked her
mother to accompany me too, which she agreed to with equal enthusiasm.
Folsomlakemontessori.com
Folsom Lake Montessori Academy (FLMA), as the name suggests, follows the Montessori Method of education. Being an established institution and having earned a name for itself, FLMA is amongst the top institutions in Sacramento area for quality child day care, offering Infant, Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten, and after school programs.
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