Kids’ Corner’s final rotation between the preschool facility at CHS and the placements at Edu-Care, the Early Childhood Program and various kindergarten and first grade classes at some elementary schools began on April 14. According to Kim Lenzo, director of Kids’ Corner, the preschoolers whom students will teach at CHS will arrive on April 16.

“The students that will be starting this week have been at placements for (five) weeks. They spent (Monday, April 14) getting ready and will begin teaching the preschoolers in Kids’ Corner on (April 16),” Lenzo said via email. “The students who had been teaching in Kids’ Corner are now at placements.”

Lenzo said the activities that have been planned for the preschoolers in Kids’ Corner match the themes of the weeks. Lenzo said some themes are Down on the Farm, Summer, Bugs and Butterflies, Super Heroes and Around the World.

However, according to Emma Guy, preschool teacher for Kids’ Corner and senior, the themes are All Around the World for April 16 and 18, Farm Week for April 22 and 24, Spring/Bugs & Butterflies for April 28 and 30 as well as May 2, Superheroes for May 6 and 8 and Fun in the Sun for May 12, 14 and 16.

Guy’s group had the theme of Farm Week. Guy said she is looking forward to seeing how the preschoolers respond to the activities her group prepared for Farm Week.

Guy said her group prepared some activities and snacks for the preschoolers. “We’re going to make pigs in a blanket,” Guy said. “I think we also have some like tick-tack-toe game that has farm animals in it.”

Christy Guyton, preschool teacher for Kids’ Corner and senior, is in Guy’s group. Guyton said, “I know we’re doing like math games, well math and like sensory, which is, it’s helping them you know discover like their five senses and types of things, so we’re gonna like work on adding with like little farm animal, plastic animal things, and like different types of things that you’d find at the farm like corn and stuff so they can touch, and we’re also gonna use like the little play toys and the corn pieces to work on adding and subtracting those types of things.”

According to Lenzo, Kids’ Corner is working on a field drip, and it will probably go to the library. Lenzo said the last week of Kids’ Corner is the week before final examinations.

Guyton said, “(Kids’ Corner) is a really awesome program both for like little kids and for students our age, because obviously, I’ve been able, like I have never worked with small kids before, but like being at my placement has like taught me a lot about how little kids learn and like how to interact with them … I also think it’s really good for like the kids because the little kids get like more one-on-one time with like instructors, so I think that’s good too.”