Can I tell you that I'm love, LOVE, LOVING teaching my classes at the Rec Ctr!!!???!! It's awesome, it's wonderful... every Friday I love deciding what to do and sit back and enjoy watching the moms and kids have fun. it gives me so much satisfaction watching them knowing that I facilitated that experience for them and exploring the world around them. For those of you who don't know, I teach a little mom n me class called Art is Fun on Fridays (soon to be switching to Thurs), and a pre-pre-nursery school for 2 yo's called Toddler Time on Tues & Thurs with Karen Kapoor and Diane.
AIF is totally exploratory and sensory, with usually 3-4 things for the parent to make with thier kid. Today, they painted with kitchen utensils, made a Native American hat with feathers, a cornacopia and free painted at the easel. We usually start off with a book or a fingerplay... today it was Farmer Brown's Pumpkins finger play with the mitt and 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear.' There is always playdo and a sensory table to have fun with ... right now it's filled with different shaped pasta and spiders.
Toddler Time, well that is equally as satisfying... just in a different way. What a blessing it is to have found Karen to teach this with (funny story there!) because we each bring to the class our strengths, which meld into the children receiving as much education and fun we can squeeze into 1 1/2 hours! And it's a win-win situation bc the mom get to do something for themselves at the Ctr like yoga or Zumba while their kids are at 'school.' Karen's gifts of teaching Montessori 'work' and structure to play and knowledge of songs perfectly compliments mine in teaching meeting time (concepts and calendar) as well, of course, ART! Love seeing the growth fo knowledge and independance, self esteem in knowing they 'did' it!
This is what I was born to do... one of MANY things, oh you dont know what creativity is waiting to explode out of me... so many things!!! Life is good.
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