Days of the Week

Each month in preschool Stella has about 5-6 tasks she needs to complete, color, and I need to sign. From the beginning, all of the tasks were so easy that she either already knew them or learned them very quickly (things like doing a somersault, drawing a stick figure, spelling your name, etc). That is until December came upon us. She needed to learn the days of the week. Simple enough, right . . . Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday . . . so I thought. She's already learned a million poems for preschool, 7 measly days shouldn't be too hard.

So we started working on it. We worked on it all of December. Darn that Thursday and Sunday . . . she just could not remember those days! January came around and still, she could not get it! I think I'm a fairly calm person, but this was frustrating me! Plus, Stella started goofing around every time we started working on it. She had already finished January's tasks before I could sign off on December and I wasn't going to let February get away from me.

I started asking people if there was a song that went along with the days of the week. A few people sang some for me, but I couldn't remember the tunes (maybe I'm the slow one). I started asking my mother-in-law if she knew a song and Stella came around the corner and busted out with this:



Now I feel like a total moron. She's known them THE ENTIRE TIME! I was the one messing her up starting on Monday instead of Sunday. Try to sing the song starting on Monday . . . it doesn't work! (the tune is Oh My Darlin')