I need your advice. I'm not quite sure what to do.
Boston will be 4 in May and it seems that everybody has their kids in preschool at this age...most since they were three.
So I've started looking into some of the preschools around here and they range from $90 to $130 a month. FOR PRESCHOOL.
My first car payment was $130.
We've got some incredible preschool teachers with amazing preschools all with in three houses of where we live in one direction or the other.
But I feel like that's a lot each month. So I'm debating on putting Boston in an actual preschool, or keeping him home and doing something like Joy School.
I did Joy school when I was four and loved it.
Joy School is a much smaller group of kids (5 or 6) and you rotate going to different kids houses each week. Along with numbers and letters you also have a theme each week like "your Body" or
"Sharing Service". It's $140 fro the entire program, but once you have it, you always have it, and through out the year you only put as much into it ($ wise) as you would like. Usually you meet twice a week for a couple hours.
What would you do?
9 comments:
First--can we please get together soon?
Second--I have felt the same way! Preschools are SO expensive and I know that I can teach them for free but would love them to have some interaction with others and to learn to obey other adults. Luckily for me my backyard neighbor just opened an amazing preschool for cheap so I'm going to send the boys there next year. But I think a joy school is a GREAT idea!
I wish you lived closer to my sis in law in Provo. She charges $75 and does a great job and Dax's class is mostly boys which is so fun. Joy school would be a great option if you can find another mom(s) who would do it with you. Before I started taking Dax to preschool, we did home preschool through abcmouse online, but I wanted him to have the social interactions and structure of preschool.it's been great for him this year.
I love Joy School! There is a Joy School facebook page that you can look at and post on to see if anyone near you wants to do a group or if there is one already. The best part is you pay once and then you can use it forever for all of your kids. I have loved hearing the music again and remembering the lessons about having joy in everything.
I would do joy school or some type of co-op preschool. I did that with 2 of my kids and loved it. And SO much cheaper.
Let me know what you decide.... I will have the same dilemma soon. PS We need to get together sometime... im sad you had to leave early when Boston was sick the other night.
Ironically I have had the Joy School song "OH BOY!I've Got Joy!" in my head all night. Maybe it's a sign :)
But seriously, I think the 2 questions you need to ask yourself as far as Boston being prepared for Kindergarten are...
1. Is Joy school going to give him the social interaction he needs to be ready for Kindergarten?
2. Is Joy school going to give him a basic introduction to letters and the sounds they make?
If you can say yes to both of these questions I think Joy School is a great idea! Something I would have looked into myself if I didn't have to work.
If you don't mind driving to the ranches, will goes to one that is 55 for 2 days a week, 65 for 3, or 75 for 4. Let me know and I'll get you the info!
I was having a hard problem with that but I did a joy school the first half and hated it. There were younger siblings there that were very distracting. When we took turns doing the lessons there was no communication or feedback from the teacher. Now I have to come up with $200 a month for preschool but I think it will be worth it. I also feel like some joy schools can feel like a play date. Good luck and figure if you don't like something you can always pull him out from it.
Last school year, I did a joy school type thing with 4 other moms in the ward. We rotated weeks we taught, teaching Tuesdays and Thursdays. We didn't even purchase the official "joy school" curriculum because there is no point. What we did is meet before school started and assigned each week a topic then a letter or number. We tried to have them connect some how like A with apples or something (we live in WA, middle of orchards) we also did field trips and things that happened in the community. You don't need to buy the thing. There are plenty of info online. I might even have what we did each week.
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