Around the house week

This week our theme is "around the house". I am trying to work on self help skills and new ways to teach my older ones. In last weeks training it came up to get the children more involved in clean up, jobs ect. I have tried having helpers and "jobs" for the kids to do and it just didn't work. This past school year, I just had one helper per day. This group was a lot younger at that time and I don't think I was as motivated!

Some areas I am experimenting with this week are : family style dining (kids get their own plates/serve their own food), allowing a helper to clean up the lunch/snack area, 2-4 kids in the kitchen lessons, more helpers for meal time/nap time ect. These skills will help them gain responsibility, independence, confidence, and who knows maybe a good lil' helper around the house at home!

This morning we played with "real life" kitchen goodies (bought from the Dollar Tree-Love that place). The older clan played outside on the deck with all the new goodies. At one point, they had the table inside the play house set and ready to go for a meal. Another child picked sage,basil, and mint from our herb garden and made "herb salad" for everyone!

Here are a few pictures from our adventure with the kitchen goodies....

Getting the herb salad ready...

Lil' C is sitting the table...

H and F are doing some cooking...

And A was making some mac and cheese!