TwiceToddlers and Half Days

Oh goodness, do your children or twins, have half days in school? What do you think of these half days? Do you like them or do they mess up your day? Is there really a purpose for these half days? When my twins have their half days, they do not take a "snack" to school. They have their lunch when they come home. Is this half day to save on paying the teachers throughout the school districts? I am sure my last "question" is the reason for these half days.

Anyway, so far, the things my twins have brought home from kindergarten, school work that is, is a duplicate of what they learned in preschool. When I see the work they are doing, I put it on our breakfast table and say, "Girls, this is exactly the work you did in preschool. This should be easy for you. But, even though they had 1.5 months off from school, they seem to have forgotten what they learned in preschool. Mommy on the other hand has not and I have to once again, sit with them and show them again, how to trace their letters, the name and shapes.

What this is telling me is the private preschool we had our twins is was totally worth it. Our twins were ready for kindergarten before they entered kindergarten. Now, I just have to remind them of the things they learned in preschool.

TwiceToddlers Learning Their Colors

Since my twins have begin kindergarten, their task, well Mommy's task, is to cut out the colors they are learning that week. If you keep up with my blog, you see I post photos of my twins wearing the color they are learning that week.

So far, they have learned about RED, YELLOW, ORANGE, GREEN, BLUE and next week PURPLE. I have yet to post about my twins wearing BLUE yet, but I will.

Anyway, when my twins learn or pass an assessment in class, they receive PC BUCKS. No, PC is not for politically correct, but for the initials of their elementary school.

Both my twins have come home now with a PC Buck for learning their colors. It really paid for Mommy to teach them at home, since they were 18 months old and from having them in the most amazing preschool in my city.

Yeah, you could say my twins make me proud...and you would be correct!

TwiceToddlers Back in PreSchool

Today was the first day back at school for my twins. It was nice to have them back at school for me and for them, well, they were happy to see their friends, boyfriends, that is and share what they did over Christmas vacation.

When they got home from school, I asked them what they learned and all they could say was, "Nothing, we just played and sang songs." They real learning will begin again on Wednesday as they get back into the swing of things.

I have no idea what I would do if my twin were not in preschool the during the week.