Simple Summer: Simple Preschool Cirriculum

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While browsing my online library, looking for eBooks, I cam across this section that has a lesson plan for you for every month of the year. I thought it would make a great resource for simple summer learning! I find the biggest time suck for learning activities is the actual planning and preparing--not the doing--and in the summer, I really don't want to be sitting and planning and preparing. So I thought I would pass the link along to you if you are interested--it is linked right to June:

http://preschool.uen.org/curriculum/June_s/calendar.htm

For more fun summer ideas, see these:

• simple summer
• Family Outings
• Outdoor Bubble Bath
• Outdoor Fun: Mud Paint
• Paint Free Painting
• Pitch a Tent!
• Pouring Yourself a Drink
• Preventing (or minimizing) Summer Setback
• S'mores (new way)
• Simple Summer Fun: Bubbles
• Simple Summer Fun: Cloud Watching
• Simple Summer Fun: Coloring
• Simple Summer Fun: Easy Crafts
• Simple Summer Fun: Gardening
• Simple Summer Fun: Museums
• Simple Summer Fun: Popsicles
• Simple Summer Fun: Reading
• Simple Summer Fun: Sand
• Simple Summer Fun: Sidewalk Chalk
• Simple Summer Fun: The Zoo
• Simple Summer Fun: Walks and Bike Rides
• Simple Summer Fun: Water Play
• Summer Bridge Activities: Four Types of Reading
• Summer Bridge Activities: Four Ways to Squeeze Reading Into Your Day
• You Pick Farms

Teacher Appreciation Meal

I am fortunate to have a friend who is a master at serving food to large groups of people. She always helps me with the meal for Teacher Appreciation Week. This year, we did Navajo Tacos. This is a fried scone (Utah style...I think often called "elephant ears" in different parts) with meat, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream...whatever you might put on a taco. We bought all of the ingredients for 130 at Sams.

We had room moms and volunteers bring a dessert. People love bringing desserts. Most people can easily throw something together. Teachers loved the variety of sweet treats. We also had a variety of drinks.

We finished the meal off with each teacher getting a gift card--teachers love gift cards!

Teacher Gift: Pamper Set

We wanted to give the teachers something they could use to just pamper themselves. 

We did a lufa, nailpolish, bubble bath, hand lotion, and chap stick. We were able to get a lot of the things from AVON for a really reasonable price. Here is a link to the gift tag: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B984Wp7G0yTWbUVwSDkwSEcyMDQ/edit?usp=sharing 

School Supply Gift

To go along with the theme of "You've Colored Our World, Now Let Us Brighten Yours," we gave the teachers a school supply kit with the colors of the rainbow. We included crayons, glue, pens, pencils, pencil top erasers, notebook, tissues, and sanitizing wipes, all in a cute bag. We bought most of these supplies last summer during the sales that lead up to the school year starting off. The pencil top erasers were purchased through Amazon--they have some great deals there. We bought them in gross boxes and then divided them up in those little treat bags.

Here is a link to the tag we put on it.

Teacher Appreciation Week: Door Decorations

Here are the door decorations that went with the theme: You've Colored Our World, Now Let Us Brighten Yours

Teacher Appreciation Week: You've Colored Our World, Now Let Us Brighten Yours

Our theme this year for Teacher Appreciation Week is: "You've Colored Our World, Now Let Us Brighten Yours."

This is the gift we gave Monday to all faculty and staff in the school.