I have two questions.
1) I run at at home preschool out of my home. I have no more than four kids at a time. I try to keep our days as fun as possible while including activities that make them think. The ages range from one to 3.5. They all love to play with blocks, reading books, musical instruments (we have dance offs and parades), and anything involving sign language.
I am looking for ideas for a plan for the next couple of years. I have not been getting a lot of sleep lately so I really need something to motivate me. I would love ideas for games I can make (that will be durable) and activity ideas for the kids that can be appropriate across the age group. I know free play is very important at this age so they get a lot of free play so they can socialize amongst each other. I think they would benefit from some more activities though. I taught preschool for a while but we never really did activities with the children it was all free play.
I need ideas that do not cost any or much money and do not take up lots of space. We are rather poor and I live in a tiny apartment.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
2) Videos of Traditional Kids' Songs in Sign Language?
The kids I care for all know quite a bit of sign language but they know hardly any kids songs. I thought it would be fun to teach them some kids songs in both verbal and sign language at the same time. Not to mention it would be so darn cute to have all the kids singing at signing at once!
Google seems to only offer stuff I have to pay for and as broke as I am I would be quite pissy if I paid for something and it sucked. So do any of you know of any free videos of children's songs being performed in sign language? I could always look up all the words to a kids song and try to orchestrate the thing myself but I am going on about two hours of sleep a day and my choreography skills and patience go out the window if I don't get my beauty sleep.
We watch Baby Signing Time and Signing Time but I am looking more for traditional songs that all kids sing.
1) I run at at home preschool out of my home. I have no more than four kids at a time. I try to keep our days as fun as possible while including activities that make them think. The ages range from one to 3.5. They all love to play with blocks, reading books, musical instruments (we have dance offs and parades), and anything involving sign language.
I am looking for ideas for a plan for the next couple of years. I have not been getting a lot of sleep lately so I really need something to motivate me. I would love ideas for games I can make (that will be durable) and activity ideas for the kids that can be appropriate across the age group. I know free play is very important at this age so they get a lot of free play so they can socialize amongst each other. I think they would benefit from some more activities though. I taught preschool for a while but we never really did activities with the children it was all free play.
I need ideas that do not cost any or much money and do not take up lots of space. We are rather poor and I live in a tiny apartment.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
2) Videos of Traditional Kids' Songs in Sign Language?
The kids I care for all know quite a bit of sign language but they know hardly any kids songs. I thought it would be fun to teach them some kids songs in both verbal and sign language at the same time. Not to mention it would be so darn cute to have all the kids singing at signing at once!
Google seems to only offer stuff I have to pay for and as broke as I am I would be quite pissy if I paid for something and it sucked. So do any of you know of any free videos of children's songs being performed in sign language? I could always look up all the words to a kids song and try to orchestrate the thing myself but I am going on about two hours of sleep a day and my choreography skills and patience go out the window if I don't get my beauty sleep.
We watch Baby Signing Time and Signing Time but I am looking more for traditional songs that all kids sing.
