Joy School: Unit 1: Intro to Rules &KR1

Before Joy School, I wanted to set up the "class room" (our dining area) a little more. Hailey's Joy School house is up. This time I added magnets so we can actually open and close the windows and they stay how we want them. Also was have the Weather Chart back. A little change is using a magnet calendar instead of a homemade paper one.
Then I found the two alphabet posters at the dollar store. I also found the map for $2 and still am looking for a cheap world map.

Now with our classroom set up we sang some songs and introduced Joy Boy who is a helper to add conversation some days. Hailey really wanted her two puppets Sally and Dick to join us.

*Side note: My mom sent Hailey two big books that had collections of Dick and Jane books. The younger sister's name is Sally. Despite being a little old fashion and very simple, Hailey love these books. They will be great as first reader books. Anyways, those books are where she got the names for the puppets.*

We went over the Joy school rules since this first unit is the Joy of Obedience and Decisions. Then we did a fun art activity of melting crayon shavings with an iron to show how objects have certain rules they must obey also.

My picture is the top right one.

Hailey choose blue, black and brown. I like how this picture turned out.

One thing that differs Year 1 of Joy School with Year 2 is the Kindergarten Readiness mini lessons. The first one is just to get the kids excited to learn letters and get used to the extra activity and rules.

The main activity was to observe the similarities and differences between people and then make a portrait of them. Hailey wanted to do Sally while I did Hailey.

Then she wanted to turn Sally into a dog and then a cat. She also got mad at me because I didn't make paper Hailey look like her paper Sally. Silly Hailey!

It was a good first day and took about an hour. Hailey then wanted me to repeat the preschool lesson I had with Robert so she could do the activities. However, after 4 lessons I was kind of ready for my down time.

Overall I think it was a great first day of morning devotional, preschool, and joy school. Especially since I blogged all about it in the same day. Go Super Mom!