Hidden Valley School of Sandy

Just some fun art on the iPad. Can you tell what it is?

Sorry duck and chickens. The water froze. How will we help them?

It’s okay to be obsessed with your grandchildren.

How does sharing work at the Hidden preschool? When children are playing with a toy I encourage the other child to ask to have a turn. This is done by verbal OT patting their chest. If they do not want to give a turn or are hesitant I encourage the other child to answer by saying yes or no or at least answering their question. What you will find the children do is ignore the question. And you will find that adults do this also when they don’t want to answer question. By answering they are saying what they are feeling at the time. However we have had to encourage kindness at the hidden Preschool. Kindness is when you share and I always say “Miss Jessica likes to share.” If a child does not want to share at all we problem-solving. we can’t play with the toy bc it has moved on to a power struggle and even if the child no longer wants to toy he will hold on to it. I will hold the toy until we reach an agreement/ solution . as for the little children, they are learning to share, and the older children know that the Littles are trying to learn how to share or ask for a turn. And they can’t learn what the word my turn means unless somebody gives them a turn so once in a while, Miss Jessica will say we are teaching the Littles how to ask for a turn.. Children can understand the word no at a very young age and the older’s know that they can say no . Children are very good at helping the Littles. Learn how to share by sharing their toys. It may be for a short time and those kids that are persistent have a good eye for the toy when the Littles drop them. Bc the littles attention span is usually shorter than the olders.
The kids are awesome and hooray for babies to teach us

So many problem solving opportunities. Put a pair of pliers in your school and see which child finds them and tries to use them. It became a battle for who’s turn was next. Opportunity! Problem solve!