Preschools are ridiculously expensive here, so I've been teaching Rocky at home in the hopes of preparing him for Kindergarten next year. Rocky's home preschool was just becoming too much fun not to include more kids, so a few weeks ago Rocky's best friend Silas and his little sister Nyla began their training at Jodi's Transformer Preschool. (I'm thinking of patenting this). The picture above is the cover of the boys' lesson worksheet binders. Because of recent birthdays and the plethora of people we are proud to call the kids' grandparents, we have acquired a decent collection of Transformer toys that are now displayed at each lesson as bribery for the kids' participation. For every lesson they complete, they get to pick a Bot for playtime. It has amazed me how well this has worked. I have assumed the role of Optimus Prime, commander of the Autobots and master of letters and numbers, valuable tools to equip them in their fight against the evil Decepticons (so I've told them). To call them to their seats, I don the Optimus helmet, speak through the robotic voice mechanism and introduce the topics for the day. The altered voice is effective in getting their attention, and I feel cool. I always did like to dress up.
(David took this picture... intimidating, eh?)
We meet for 3 hours a day, 3 times a week. Activities include playing Optimus Prime Says, Optimus May I, Transformer Twister, Decepticon Charades, Autobot Aerobics and Find the Cube (Hot or Cold) as well as robot-related crafts. Yesterday, we made Transformer mirrors with cardboard and aluminum foil that (to my pleasant surprise) actually made our images in them look distorted and robot-like. During the lessons, I have designed a Superhero method of teaching vowels and action figure cut-outs help us form words. I think I am having as much fun as they are.
Nyla is in Robot mode. She prefers to assume the identity of Bumblebee. Her lessons are simpler, consisting of colors, animal identification and shapes.
Jack runs around giggling hysterically, holding his mini-board books up to his ear, talking to them like a phone. I'm happy if I can keep him from climbing onto the table and flinging all crayons and worksheets to the floor (which happens often). If anyone has any ideas of robot or superhero related activities or teaching methods, please let me know! For now, we will do our part to protect the universe with the "power of reading."
6 comments:
You are so funny. And so incredibly creative. You should start advertising. I bet there are parents out there who would pay big bucks to send their little boys to Jodi's Transformer Preschool. In fact, some of us might be willing to shell out some money to be able to listen to one of the lessons :)
That is seriously the coolest preschool ever! I wish I was even half as creative as you!
All I can say is - I don't know how you do it!
That sounds so awesome, I'm always amazed at your creativity!
I love this idea. You are a fun mom. Keep posting, I'm going to learn how to be a fun mom too.
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