Katherine and Mom start Joy School!

The day after Katherine's preschool started, we started Joy School. I prefer Joy School for 3 year olds, but unfortunately we couldn't find enough friends to do it with us. I will not lie, this bothered me a lot because we were able to do it with the other 3 kids and I wanted to offer Katherine the same experience. We were lucky to find some friends who wanted to do a preschool co-op once a week though and we think that will be really fun too.

The plan is that we will do Joyschool at home 1-2 days a week. Because Katherine is the only student, we go through things pretty quickly.

The first unit is the Joy of the Body!

We have learned a lot about our bodies and are really pleased with them and all the amazing things that they can do. 

We have only done 3 lessons so far, but have had a lot of fun doing them together! It is a bit of preparation and work for just 1 kid, but she is worth it! I love her so much and am thankful to be able to spend my days with her.

This is a picture of a body that she drew on her 1st day of Joyschool. 

 It has a face, eyes(with iris and pupils which was unique), nose, mouth, arms, legs, feet, 10 fingers and hair. She usually only scribbles, so this was a pretty cool picture and I was proud of her effort.

These were from Thursday, I believe. We played a game. When the music started she was to pick up a nickel and walk and put it into a bowl in front of her. It was so easy!

 Then we tried to do it without eyes- it was hard to find the nickel to pick up and hard to drop it into the bowl.

Without ears she couldn't even start because she couldn't hear the music.

 Without fingers, she couldn't pick up the nickel very well. (She actually got it with her foot, but it took a lot of work.)

 Without feet, it was so hard to get to the bowl. I think she learned just how useful her body was with this game.

Later, I hid a popcorn machine behind this tub. She had to use her senses to figure out what it was.

At first she was stumped.

 But she started to smell and hear the popcorn!

 We ate it for snack.

We made a smelling collage too.

 And had a lot of fun with taste testing things!

We are thankful for our bodies and for our senses!

We will have 3 more lessons about the body and then will move on to the Joy of the Earth! I love teaching preschoolers!