1. Bulletin Board: I made a bulletin board for our "First 6" time at the start of each class session. It has a calendar, weather chart, and small white boards (laminated squares) that tell our focus areas for that week/month, such as the color/shape of the week, etc. The calendar has velcro dots to make changing the calendar a little easier.
2. Planner: I bought a school-year planner from Target to schedule our school year. I went through the whole year in advance and wrote the following for each week on it's proper pages.
Letter of the Week
Book of the Week
Country of the Week
Weekly Spelling Words
Weekly Sight Words
Number of the Week
Sound of the Week
Color of the Week
Shape of the Week
Animal of the Week
Then in the "Notes" area at the beginning of each month I wrote our "First 6" routine, the monthly Scripture Stories and the Song of the month. I will also write in field trip plans for the month, if any. I am planning on filling in the weekly plans a couple of weeks before hand, in case something isn't working I won't have to white-out the entire remainder of the book!3. Worked out a daily/weekly schedule. I worked out a general schedule for daily activities and weekly activities from a list of things I wanted to do with Evan in preschool. Every day we start with our "First 6" at our bulletin board. Here are the things we go over:
First 6
- Calendar/Weather (Add today's date on the calendar, count up to today's date, change the weather arrow)
- Color of the week/Shape of the week
- Number of the week
- Letter of the week/Sound of the week
- Animal of the week
- Country of the week
This is meant to be a quick overview, not an in-depth discussion of any one thing. Feel welcome to change things as you feel the desire.4. Supplies: Some supplies I have found helpful for setting up our preschool.
Laminator
Bulletin Board
Paper cutter (small)
White-out
File box
Bin for supplies
File box
Bin for supplies
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