I'm 16 and work at a preschool?

Question

I'm a teacher's assistant. I just got the job about 2 months ago. During the school year I'm only coming on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. When I'm there I work with the school aged kids that are there for 'daycare.' (ages 5-7) The thing is...I don't know what to do with them. We've played Bingo, shreds, and have went outside and played house and found 'dinosaur bones.' but I don't know what else I could do with them. I don't want them to get bored from doing the same things everytime. I'm limited to outside and in the living room of a house. (we can't watch tv).

Answer 1

wen i was in preskool we just used to play wit blocks everyday.. to kids dat stuff is fun it duznt matta if ya do it everyday =]

Answer 2

yes do some arts and crafts, or flash cards.

Answer 3

board games, drawing, painting is too messy unless you can deal with it and not get it on their clothes. play school, play house, build forts with sheets

Answer 4

what does the teacher want you to do?  Ask her.

get a book of games from the library. Do you read to them?  Do homework?

Answer 5

are you even qualified. You shoulnd't be their at that age. You can't realy get your qualification before you 18. . . .

Answer 6

they may be young but ask them what they want to do. print out some strories while your online search there level of entertainment.

Answer 7

Is this a question or statement?

Answer 8

sing along song maybe i know i had fun..uhh or finger paint, sculpting.ect(playdo,legos)well good luck.

Answer 9

teach them stuff like math or something :)

Answer 10

Hide a bunch of pipe cleaners around the playground in various colors yellow, red, black, brown etc. These are worms!  Break teh kids into teams and have them collect the worms.  The easier to find worms are the brightly colored ones are worth 1 point, have lots of them.  Brown are worth 2 points, have enough for each team to find 5. Hide only a few black worms and they are worth 5 points.  Have the teams add up there points to see who wins. (To make a little educational you can talk about camoflage and how different colors are harder and easier to see.)

Get a portable radio and play a version of musical chairs with a ball.  The kids sit or stand in a circle and pass the ball from one person to another.  When the music stops, the person holding the ball goes to the middle until the next person gets "out" and replaces the person in the middle; therefore only one person is in the middle of the circle at a time.  This could also be played sitting down indoors on rainy days.

Make paper airplanes and see who's can fly the fartherest.

Freeze dance.  As long as the music is playing they dance.  When it stops they freeze like a statue.

Sidewalk chalk.

Hopscotch.

I hope these help.

Answer 11

If you are a teacher's assistant then you are suppose to be getting guideline of what you are suppose to be doing. You are only 16... The "teacher" should have opportunities for you to do.

Now you can do lots of pretend activities. Those never get old with that age group. It depends on how many you have

You can read a chapter or few of a chapter book with lots of character (if this is difficult to find write one of your own ahead of time)... then everyone chose or is assigned a character... they have to act out how the book would end.

Or better yet make paper bag puppets and write an alternative ending to the story. Act out the story and the ending with the puppet. (You can present it to the younger group at your school). You guys can also try to act out alternative stories of there favorite movies.

If you have a sandbox and a figurinesor cars (1 for each person) have them gather twigs and stuff and each person build on house out of a cave in the sand and twigs/leaves. Then there is a village assign a doctor, mayor... and act out how a village interacts... maybe current events like fires and flood near by.

You can always go with gym games. Dodge ball, red-light-green light... the statue game: you say the poem little statue little state tomorrows market... I need a XXXX (fill in a name of animal or profession or something interactive) then the kid pose as the thing you say then you tap each person to make the act out what that thing does (some times they try to get goofy and get some laughs) then tap them again to turn them off. Chose the best actor to be the next it to say the poem.

Answer 12

Here are some links I found on a Google search:

http://www.waidsoft.com/funkids.html

http://www.theotherpages.org/fun/

http://www.creativekidsathome.com/activi...

http://www.theideabox.com/

Answer 13

Duck Duck Goose

Tag

Freeze Tag

Read books to them and then do activities related to the books--like Charlotte's Web--using string and paper make a spider web.  

Handprints--painting

Do messy play activitie--there's a good book by Lisa Murphy who writes a good messy play book.

You can burry treasures in sand

Have a scavenger hunt

Answer 14

Watch the first 45 minutes of Full Metal Jacket, that should give you some ideas.

Answer 15

Outside- Play Tag, Red Rover, Jump rope, start a rock collection

Inside- Do something for Halloween crafts, games, snacks....ect. You can do that for all holidays. When the snow starts comming you can get a bunch of sugar cubes and vanilla frosting and they could make igloos out of that. You could read to them. Help them with their homework if they have any. Sing songs.

Just a few ideas. Hope you can use them. Good luck!!

Answer 16

Well you can always have a dance party where you put on some hip hop (appropriate music) and get the kids to really shake ....they actually enjoy this and you control the music when the music stops they freeze and you kick whoever is last to freeze or moves out .....it's really fun and you can get em going and it could last 30 mins or so depending on the amount of kids you have....really encourage them to have fun and get it all out eh.....