Traditional education includes Circle Time which is a great way to start and end the day. It promotes a sense of community. Circle Time provides a time for the children to bond with and get to know one another and their teacher.

During Circle Time we discus the weather, the calendar, and color/shape/letter/number of the week, sing songs, and have story time, read a book to tie in literature to the lesson plan. Everything is perfectly themed tying the weekly curriculum and activities together but it's also so much more. This is a time your children get to share their stories. Preschool Circle Time is a wonderful time to introduce new materials!  This is also a great time to reintroduce a forgotten material! Sometimes the children get to wear the clothes from the dress up closet during circle time or use musical instruments. When we discussed bears and hibernation we had them all hold their teddy bears.

Circle Time can be used for new materials to hand out. We ask them to share with a friend or pass it around and add two colors together and look through it with a magnifying class. They loved that the red and blue made everything look purple for example! 

During Story Time portion of Circle Time we try to keep things interesting. Rather than just read a story, we have the children act out the story while we tell it with the use of Puppets, Flannel Boards, flannel board pieces for the children to add as you read the story, drawings on the white board, Acting out the story, using props, voices, songs.