Emily went to preschool today for the first time without me. They told me she was great! (When I was there she had a hard time at first because she wanted to play with all of the toys instead of doing the activities they had planned.) Emily LOVED preschool today. The first thing she told me was that she painted. Luckily for me the preschool sends home a little slip of paper that tells the parents what their kids did at school that day so I can carry on a conversation with Emily about it. The best part was that she was putting together 3-5 word sentences and speaking to me in one of the best conversations we have ever had. She's also very excited about the butterflies that they have in the classroom. She really loves butterflies!
While she was gone we had our playgroup for "H". I'm afraid I had to cut it short so I could go pick up Emily. (Sorry guys :( We had ham roll ups, horses and hay, honey bears and someone thought of donut "holes". We also colored our letter "H".
One of the things I'm trying to teach Emily is how to count meaningfully. She can count to 10 really well. We're working on counting higher. But we also have to work on meaningfully counting as well (this also happens to be one of the preschool's goals for Emily.) So today while I was babysitting, especially since the 4-year-old gets bored quickly, we played a clean up game. It lasted for...oh...about half the mess. That's pretty good though considering the amount of mess we had. We rolled a dice, I had them count the dots and they picked up the same number of toys as the dots. They really enjoyed the game. (Note to self, don't mention the words "clean up" though. :) So, I really think we're going to be able to pass the counting goal very soon.
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