Since I am not teaching full-time (or, as I like to say, I am underemployed right now), I have been desparately looking for other ways to bring in money for food, bills, OMG - do we have enough for the mortgage? extras. Coincidentally a friend was looking for an alternative to the after-school kindergarten program her boys were attending. Yay - I had a new part-time job!
Being a kindergarten teacher has always been my dream job, so I LOVE that I get to work with these two kindergarten-aged boys three times a week. And my new BFF (Pinterest) has made finding fun things to do with the boys (not to be confused with MY boys) much easier.
Here are some of the activities I plan to do this week:
Make Rock Candy!
The way the Rock Candy looked on the windowsill in the Gluestick blog - hope ours looks that good! |
Go on a scavenger hunt, inspired by this post at THAT'S SO CUEGLY, who actually listed seventy-five really great things to do with kids.
The Kitchen Pantry Scientist's kids doing the Fizzy Balloon experiment. |
The Pollock-inspired painting the kids on 52 Brand New created. |
I promise to write another post describing how each of these activities went - and hopefully my pictures will look as good as the ones I included in this post!