Ben Teaches Preschool

Ben has been teaching preschool the last few days. He was inspired when he found several of our teaching materials from last year. He collected the kids sitting mats, calendar and flannel board. The calendar didn't have any numbers anymore, so Ben spent many hours of tedious work to make them. He cut out little squares in purple paper and had me make the numbers in dots so he could trace them. Then he cut and rolled all the tape rolls to attach the numbers. It took two days of work and he was deeply focused on it the whole time. Then he moved on to making a flannel board story. He colored the pictures he wanted, cut them out and glued on felt. He did such a great job.

Then he set-up shop in the living room just like I do when I teach preschool. He laid out all his "guys" on the mats and told them the flannel board stories after they did the calendar and he had a welcome for them. Some of the "guys" couldn't sit up on their own. He was a little worried about it, but worked it out himself. I was proud of him because often things like that can really get him distraught. He decided that if everyone that couldn't sit up by themselves would lay on their side they could still look at the teacher so it would be okay. It was so cute.