Now that our company is gone… and school time is coming really fast, I drug out all of my homeschool supplies and books. 2 year olds are very young to start formal preschool, so I only do 1 main activity with them (either alphabet or math).Sorting through our books and supplies for homeschooling. I also want to share a few sample schedules for ages 2, 3, and 4-5. I recommend between 2-4 per week with preschoolers.) It’s up to you on how many days you feel like you need to do school. (You’ll notice in the picture above that we don’t do formal school on Wednesdays. I also make sure we have plenty of time to play outside, do learning games, field trips, and read lots of books! I just find that if I plan out our week for these subjects, I feel more successful. There is no final product, just whatever art your preschooler comes up with! Process art are open-ended art activities. I do process art activities or crafts about 3 times per week. You can also create sensory bottles or other activities engaging the senses. Sensory Play:Įxploring the senses is so important for preschoolers. Motor skills are for fine motor (small movement) and gross motor (large movement) They are both important to work on! Building up fine motor skills will help with holding a pencil and handwriting skills. We don’t do both every day, but we try to. We usually do 1 activity in either math or science during our preschool day. I like to do experiments and hands-on activities for preschool science. Preschool math consists of counting, colors, patterns, number recognition, one-to-one correspondence, shapes, sorting, graphing, money, ordering, matching and subtitizing. For preschoolers, that means doing activities with the alphabet, listening skills, phonics, rhyming words, and handwriting. Language arts cover the areas of listening, reading, writing, and speaking. If you would like to read more about circle time, I recommend reading this article on 10 Tips for Circle Time. I would like to add in this idea of a morning message like this on on Pre-K Pages. I sometimes do the read aloud that goes along with our language arts lessons or sometimes it’s just a book that I think would be great to read to my preschooler. We review over the letter of the week, practice counting together (by 1s, by 5s, or 10s), and do simple patterns with counting bears (AB, AABB). Then we go through the calendar and weather charts.I also like to do songs with movements or fingerplays. I still recommend doing circle time even if you only have 1 child. If you have older homeschooled kids, it’s a good way to do something all together. It becomes a routine and helps the child understand that this is how the school day starts. I think circle time is an awesome way to start out the preschool day. I have a lot of home preschool moms ask me how to do this, especially if you only have 1 child you are homeschooling. Here’s a look at what the sheet looks like. Here’s a little bit of what we do for these subjects: Circle Time I like to plan out my week on Sunday and gather all the materials I need for my lessons that week. Today I’m excited to share with you my new weekly preschool planner that I’ll be using with my 4 year old preschooler this school year! It helps me organize my ideas and keeps me focused on what needs to be taught. I am the type that loves to write out my lesson plans on paper. The key to a successful home preschool year is to plan.
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