PRE-SCHOOL for RYLEIGH:I have spent a lot of time researching and planning a pre-school curriculum for Ryleigh...who will be almost 3 1/2 when our "school year" is going to begin in August... that being said...what I have come up with is tailored to her skill and interest set...
In between now and August I will be "prepping" lessons, making printables/games/activities, hopefully working on our new classroom....and of course...enjoying the nice weather... maybe catching up on sleep
To plan most of our lessons, I used a collection of different books that I have acquired on each subject. In addition I will be using material from
Confessions of a Homeschooler as well as other blog's printables. (which will be linked at time of usage). I will also be using printables that I have made (or will make)...all of which will be available under printables on the blog.... This includes Music Theory for Preschoolers....I have a few Piano Students that are of the pre-school age...and I was unable to find a lesson book that was really tailored to them...so in essence I am making my own...at this point, they are not piano specific....
- Circle Time
- Calendar
- Days of the Week
- Months of the Year
- Holidays
- Counting
- Number, Letter, Shape, Color, Bible Verse of the Week
- 1-100 Days of School Countdown
- Weather
- Songs
- Bible
- Old Testament
- Unit Projects
- DVD's Veggie Tales
- Pre-writing/writing
- Kumon Book of Tracing
- Writing Capital Letters
- Writing her Name
- Writing Numbers 1-10
- Reading Skills
- Leap Frog DVD's
- The Letter Factory
- The Talking Word Factory
- The Talking Word Factory 2
- Recognizing Capital Letters and their sounds (Review)
- Recognizing Lowercase Letters and their sounds
- Find the Letter Printables --Upper and Lower case(Mine)
- Beginning sight words
- Letter Blends
- Correlation between sounds and object: A is for apple...
- Rhyming words
- Math
- Leap Frog DVD's
- Math Circus
- Math Adventure to the Moon
- Number Printables (Mine)
- Pattern Printables (Mine)
- Number Recognition and counting 1 -100
- Counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s to 100
- Sequencing (Review)
- Patterns {Review}
- Matching {Review}
- Puzzles
- Recognizing shapes {Review}
- Value of coins and dollar bill
- Telling time to the nearest half hour
- Addition facts through 10
- Opposites
- Sets & Logic - Which one is different/ does not belong
- Science
- Baking (although I suppose this could also go under Math)
- Units
- Farm Animals
- Plants and Flowers
- Ocean/ Sea life
- Jungle Animals
- Weather
- Seasons
- Fruits/Vegetables
- The Five Senses
- Hard vs. Soft
- Heavy vs. Lite
- Float vs. Sink
- Projects and field trips
- Geography
- Compass
- North, South, East and West
- New York- In depth
- 50 States (Names, General Regions)
- Post Card Exchange to track on classroom map
- Projects and field trips
- Intro to Spanish
- 1-20 Numbers
- Colors
- Days of the Week, Months of the Year
- Household and classroom objects (glue, table, phone, stove, etc.)
- Simple Phrases
- Music
- Musical Mondays (here)
- Piano Lessons (here)
- Worksheet printables that I made for preschool level music theory
- Singing, learning about other instruments, rhythm, dancing
- Art
- Colors (Review)
- Mixing Colors/ Color Wheel (Review)
- Shades of Colors
- Art Group with Michelle (A Mommy's Adventures)
- stART projects
- crafts
- Fine Motor Skills
- Practice Cutting
- Learning to Tie (Ryleigh is very interested right now)
- Fine Motor Activities
- Clothespins, Transfers, stickers, etc.
- Gross Motor Skills
- Dance Class
- Catch & Throw
- Kicking a Ball
- Stopping a Soccer Ball with foot
- Passing a Soccer Ball with feet
- Pedaling a Bike
- Alternating Steps when going up and down stairs
- Listening Skills/ Following Directions
***As of now, the plan is to do a total of about 3 hours a week of actual sit down learning...the rest will be done through play, field trips and games***
Tot School for Braeden:
Braeden will have just turned 1 at the start of our year...so obviously time to get it in gear...:)
Circle Time, Art, Music, Puzzles, Some fine motor skills that will be masqueraded as play, Blocks, Lots of being read to, Playing with Ryleigh, Playing with Mommy and Daddy, Playing Solo, Playgroup, perhaps some messy crafts if he is in the mood, learning to walk, learning some words, lots of playing... probably some forms of cute mischief....and hopefully some napping... (it's going to be a busy year!)
Go check out what others are doing for preschool at Homeschool Creations !
For other 2010-2011 Curriculums go to Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers.
A story + art = a great stART!
Placing the dowel back on the tray after poking at the sand...
She really liked the pink...
The start of the second bottle...she even missed some of Sesame Street for this...
The finished projects... 
