Preschool For Dummies

Sunday, May 19, 2013

"TH"e End!!!

We did it!!! We actually finished all the phonemes for the year! I realize I haven't actually put up all the lesson plans, but once I've finised mapping out my homeschool year for first grade I'll try to fill in the gaps here. Until then, here is a rundown of our last week...

"TH" words...we talked about hard vs. soft "TH"

Cutting out pictures that have the sound "TH"

Hurray!! Summer is here!!

Monday, May 6, 2013

Z and QU

Cutting QU words and putting in alphabetical order

QU quail....thanks pinterest!

Reading about zebras

Sorting the stripes from smallest to biggest

Gluing them to our zebra in order

Cutting out animals that start with Z

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

"X" Art and Math Combo

I realized just before starting school this week that I never finished lesson plans for the letters x, z, qu and th (as in that). Oops! This week I just used Google to help me find "x" activities and I made this little gem of an activity on the fly. Here are some other activities I had us do...

Sort from biggest to smallest

X letter search

Color-by-letter X

X word match

Tracing letter X

Monday, March 18, 2013

E-S-SH-TH-W-V

"TH" words

"SH"apes

"W"eather Chart

"W"hale Dot-to-Dot

"S"pider Web

"SH'ield of Faith

"E"ngine Patterns

Tracing "E"

"V"alentine Secret Messages

"V"alentines

Monday, February 18, 2013

Vowel Tents

See!! Proof!!

We have added long vowel tents to our short vowel sticks. True to "girl form", she is very strong in her reading and writing. Memorization and "thinking" skills definitely fall under the "boy form" column in our house, and I will take this moment to mention that we switched this weeks verse to I Cor. 16:14. I took for granted how easy it was for Brody to memorize verses! :)

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Let The Games Begin!

I feel I need to explain my lack of diligence in chronicling our latest preschool journey. It's partially the result of "second child syndrome", and particularly the overshadowing of my research to put together 1st grade curriculum for our newest adventure in homeschooling.

Yes, we are following through with our plan to homeschool! After much prayer, we have decided the current flow of society and education is not consistent with our values and beliefs of what makes up a successful student...even in the more concrete primary grades of the great-and-mighty classical movement!

I'm lucky to have found a school (classical at that!) that employs a more accurate educational philosophy and openly references their curriculum resources. Now I just have to organize it into a sequence that will work for us...hence the lack of spare time to post preschool pictures. I plan to get better at doing both, though...someday! :)