Preschool Week 2

We are going through ABC Memory Book with my 4 and almost 3 year old this year. This week was B, and to reinforce the letter we made a B on construction paper and glued dried beans onto it. This helps with small motor skills and letter recognition.

Tot School Week 2

One thing we enjoyed this week in Tot school was to make a "mat man" with the wooden letter pieces that our 4 year old uses to learn her letters. These are sold through Handwriting without Tears to teach letter formation. This activity entertained him for quite some time.

This last activity was intended for the toddler and preschoolers, but how much fun the older kids AND their homeschool friends had. The 5 - 7 year old crowd actually had more fun with this than the younger ones. It is very simple :) Get a tupperware container of water. Put some dish soap in it for bubbles. Get a bunch of kitchen tools out of your cupboards that they can measure, scoop, and pour. And voila! You have instant recreation for at least an hour - who needs expensive toys?!

Tot School Week 1

I haven't posted for a few weeks, so there will be several new posts added. This year for the first time, I decided to be intentional about doing preschool with the younger ones. It is so easy to focus on the "school age" child(ren) that sometimes the little ones can get left out. I realized that all the fun stuff that I did with my firstborn are not always being done with the next two. So, in my lesson planning last month I also planned out a 12 week lesson plan for my toddler and preschooler. Thanks to the Tot School webpage for some great ideas and help in being intentional with this age. It basically looks like this: Daily circle time, craft activity several times a week, daily preschool workbook or handwriting lesson, and short reading lesson for the 4 year old. These pictures are from our first week of school. They had fun with the letter A using painters tape and then painting over the letter only to uncover it later and reveal the letter A. They also enjoyed sponge painting different shapes and animals with washable tempera paints.