Two weeks until we begin yet another year of Pirate Pete Preschool. I can't help but smile to myself as I get the order of teaching dates, bulletin board schedules, and themes for the weeks ahead lined up for lesson planning. Even though this will be my eleventh start to preschool here at Palatine High School it's still exciting and I know how blessed I am to be able to enjoy another year with fabulous high school students and adorable youngsters. I think that's how you know teaching is in a person's blood, by how excited she is about all the work ahead!
Last week the high school students chose preschoolers to work with one on one with as the year goes on. Whew! What a fun time that is for everyone as the excitement and enthusiasm is hard to contain while they work to choose a child to get to know and help shape this year. (More posts on how we do Case Studies later.)
We chose the themes for the semester and started planning bulletin boards all while learning how to work with our newest change: the iPad. By going green we can't wait to see how much more we can learn when materials are at our fingertips to give us more ideas and help us organize our thoughts and observations as the year goes on. We are using Twitter, Pinterest, Schoology, Haiku Deck, Notability, and more to help us grow as life long learners and to encourage our new Pirates to have a love of learning as well.
This is such an exciting time and I look forward to using this blog to be able to provide a better window into the fabulous Pirate Pete Preschool Program here at Palatine High School.
