Open House

2010

Well, at our school we used to have Open House at a decent time of the year, but because enrollment dropped a bit the year before last, they decided to make Open House happen during registration time so that people that were considering coming to our school would have a chance to come and see what we are all about.

Now, this may make sense to the higher muckity mucks but it makes no sense to us. I had no outside people visit my class last year and neither did any of the other preschool teachers. The curriculum at this time is staggered, we are doing communication, Valentine's Day and Space right now. Not the best mix for Open House. We used to do Open House in May towards the end of the year to show off all of the kids' work. The curriculum was Insects, Reptiles and Pond life. All of which kind of went together. One part of the room was dinosaurs with a volcano, the other wall was pond life with giant bullfrogs, salamanders, dragonflies and turtles, and the ceiling was full of branches with bees, ladybugs, butterflies and spiders. They hung down and the whole room was decked out for a great look. We (the teachers) all wish we could go back to the way things were, but unfortunately, the superintendent and principal of the elementary school don't see it that way. So we have decided we put up what we put up and although it isn't really the children's best work, it is what we are doing at the time.

So this is it.