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Preschool Prep

Preschool Prep: Learning Shapes

August 21, 2013 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

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Preschool Prep: Learning Shapes

Do your children enjoy learning shapes? Maybe you have not started or are just introducing your little one to shapes. Children can enjoy learning shapes by fun repetition. Check out this Preschool Prep post all about Learning Shapes!

What is Preschool Prep?

Do you have a young child or two who has outgrown Tot School and is ready for Preschool? Have you looked at all the free online choices during your preschool preparation? Does thinking about preschool curriculum make your head spin? Well, I know that the amount of free “Letter of the Week” and “Themed” curriculum is astounding.

I am creating the Preschool Prep series to help other moms and caregivers out! I have spent lots of time researching and planning for Preschool for Lil’ Red and I want to pass on this wealth of knowledge and resources to my readers!

I plan to share a variety of ideas and ways to prepare yourself, your environment, and your child for preschool in a multi-part series. I could create a super long and over whelming post with tons and tons of ideas, but I do not want to add frustration to your Preschool Prep situation. I want to share ideas for learning letters, numbers, colors, shapes, name recognition, character studies, etc. I will share with you very simple activities you can create yourself or some items you could look for during garage sale season. I am hoping to lessen your time and the amount of money you spend by sharing what I am doing.

Preschool Prep Learning Shapes

 (Disclosure: There are affiliate links within this post. The links provide a way for us to support our site and provide great ideas and content to you! Thanks for your support.)

Learning Shapes

There are so many ways to teach your child a new concept. I find the easiest is to incorporate a new skills or idea into everyday life. For example my children love graham crackers so I ask if they want one big rectangle or two squares. I break the graham cracker into squares and show them both a rectangle and a square. If we have Ritz crackers we talk about circles,etc.

Hands-on: One of the simplest ways to teach your child shapes is by giving them LOTS of hands-on practice. Start out simple with a circle and square and build up from there.

Provide lots of ways to play with shapes. We purchased wooden pattern blocks to use with free printable pattern sheets from Confessions of a Homeschooler. (The free form shapes below were created by Eldest age 9).

wooden pattern blocks

Shape sorter: Please DO NOT give away your shape sorter thinking it’s a baby toy! I know lots of parents who make the mistake of giving away or selling their “baby” toys when their child turns three, BUT wait! Can your child use that toy to learn an important preschool skill? Shapes sorters are great for spatial reasoning, counting sides, tracing the pieces, stacking the pieces, and so much more.

shape sorter

Shape Ideas

Create your own Shape games:

shape boxes

 

Flashcards: Obvious I know but what can you do with flashcards to make them more hands-on or concrete? Find objects to match with them. Talk about same and different.

Worksheets and Dry-erase Sheets:

Shape Tracers

Crafts

Games and Activities:

Shape game

Moms Have Questions Too- Pattern Block 

 

Check out other posts within the Preschool Prep Series:

Preschool Assessment

Preschool Prep: Curriculum

Preschool Prep: Art and Music

Preschool Prep: Science and Nature

Preschool Prep: Learning Letters

Check out other posts within the Preschool Prep Series:

Preschool Assessment

Preschool Prep: Curriculum

Preschool Prep: Art and Music

Preschool Prep: Science and Nature

Preschool Prep: Learning Letters

Filed Under: Family, Freebies, Frugal Living, Homeschooling, Lil' Red, Preschool Prep

Preschool Prep Series

August 16, 2013 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

Preschool Prep Series

What is Preschool Prep?

Do you have a young child or two who has outgrown Tot School and is ready for Preschool? Have you looked at all the free online choices during your preschool preparation? Does thinking about preschool curriculum make your head spin? Well, I know that the amount of free “Letter of the Week” and “Themed” curriculum is astounding.

Preschool Prep

 

I am creating the Preschool Prep series to help other moms and caregivers out! I have spent lots of time researching and planning for Preschool for Lil’ Red and I want to pass on this wealth of knowledge and resources to my readers!

I plan to share a variety of ideas and ways to prepare yourself, your environment, and your child for preschool in a multi-part series. I could create a super long and over whelming post with tons and tons of ideas, but I do not want to add frustration to your Preschool Prep situation. I want to share ideas for learning letters, numbers, colors, shapes, name recognition, character studies, etc. I will share with you very simple activities you can create yourself or some items you could look for during garage sale season. I am hoping to lessen the amount of time and money you  spend by sharing what I am doing.

Click on ANY of the pictures below to go to that topics post:

preschool prep assessment

preschool prep curriculum

preschool prep art and music

 Preschool Prep Learning Shapes

 

Preschool Prep Learning Letters

 

Preschool Prep Learning Colors In the works!

Preschool prep Bible In the works!

Preschool Prep Science and Nature

What are you doing for Preschool? Would love to hear from you!

Filed Under: Homeschooling, Preschool Prep

Preschool Prep: Art and Music

August 5, 2013 By Thaleia 2 Comments

Preschool Prep: Art and Music

(Disclosure: There may be affiliate links within this post. The links provide a way for us to support our site and provide great ideas and content to you!                                   Thanks for your support.)

preschool prep art and music

What is Preschool Prep?

Do you have a young child or two who has outgrown Tot School and is ready for Preschool? Have you looked at all the free online choices during your preschool preparation? Does thinking about preschool curriculum make your head spin? Well, I know that the amount of free “Letter of the Week” and “Themed” curriculum is astounding.

I am creating the Preschool Prep series to help other moms and caregivers out! I have spent lots of time researching and planning for Preschool for Lil’ Red and I want to pass on this wealth of knowledge and resources to my readers!

I plan to share a variety of ideas and ways to prepare yourself, your environment, and your child for preschool in a multi-part series. I could create a super long and over whelming post with tons and tons of ideas, but I do not want to add frustration to your Preschool Prep situation. I want to share ideas for learning letters, numbers, colors, shapes, name recognition, character studies, etc. I will share with you very simple activities you can create yourself or some items you could look for during garage sale season. I am hoping to lessen your time and the amount of money you spend by sharing what I am doing.

Art and Music

First off you may be wondering “Why Art and Music for Preschool?” Well, lots of reasons. Just a few that come rolling off the top of my head- gross motor, fine motor, spatial awareness, self-esteem, and a sense of accomplishment. More importantly things like “hand-eye coordination” and “crossing the mid-line” may not happen for all children easily. These tasks help strengthen the connections across both side of the brain allowing for a child to learn more easily!

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Filed Under: Family, Freebies, Frugal Living, Homeschooling, Lil' Red, Preschool Prep

Preschool Prep: Curriculum

July 24, 2013 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

Preschool Prep: Curriculum

preschool prep curriculum

 

(Disclosure: There may be affiliate links within this post. The links provide a way for us to support our site and provide great ideas and content to you! Thanks for your support.)

What is Preschool Prep?

Do you have a young child or two who has outgrown Tot School and is ready for Preschool? Have you looked at all the free online choices during your preschool preparation? Does thinking about preschool curriculum make your head spin? Well, I know that the amount of free “Letter of the Week” and “Themed” curriculum is astounding.

I am creating the Preschool Prep series to help other moms and caregivers out! I have spent lots of time researching and planning for Preschool for Lil’ Red and I want to pass on this wealth of knowledge and resources to my readers!

I plan to share a variety of ideas and ways to prepare yourself, your environment, and your child for preschool in a multi-part series. I could create a super long and over whelming post with tons and tons of ideas, but I do not want to add frustration to your Preschool Prep situation. I want to share ideas for learning letters, numbers, colors, shapes, name recognition, character studies, etc. I will share with you very simple activities you can create yourself or some items you could look for during garage sale season. I am hoping to lessen your time and the amount of money you spend by sharing what I am doing.

Why plan a Preschool Curriculum?

Since Lil’ Red is now three it is time we move beyond the dabbling in Tot School and begin Preschool Preparations NOW before baby #4 arrives in August. Not too long ago I realized Lil’ Red does recognize a large amount of letters but not all. I do know that he does not know all the sounds or uppercase and lowercase. He amazes me each day with his ever expanding vocabulary, his counting, and color recognition.

I have to be honest and tell you I have not decided on an exact “Curriculum” for preschool or even one specific curriculum. There are lots of reasons not only because I’m a little eclectic and ADD but it’s very hard to choose just one. Plus a lot of other factors play a part in this decision:

1) New baby due in August and would like to re-use some of the same items with him.

2) Not sure how much Lil’ Red will learn and grow over the summer.

3) Gotta think what I can use with Classical Conversation Nursery kids ages 12 months to  3 1/2 years that I provide care for once a week.

4) Do not have a huge budget to buy tons of new things.

5) Do not have lots of storage space.

6) I do have lots of items I may have forgotten about from my college days.

7) Can only print and laminate so many things before I run out of laminating sheets see #4.

How about I just share some really great Preschool Curriculum’s I have found online and save you the time from searching? Sounds so good doesn’t it. Think about what your goal is for preschool and maybe even consider giving your child an assessment in order to know where to begin.

Scope and Sequences or Curriculum Overviews:

DO NOT FREAK out by these lists but use them as a general guide for learning with your child and teaching your child.

Abeka Curriculum ages 2 through grade 12

Essentials Preschool Curriculum from Gospel Publishing

Typical Course of Study Curriculum Guide for Preschool

 

ABC Coloring Pages:

doodle art

BFIAR/FIAR (Five in a Row):

Angelic Scaliwags BFIAR Posts

Delightful Learning BFIAR LINK-UP

The Pinay Homeschooler 

School Time Snippets

Letter of the Week:

letter of week confessions

Animal ABCs

ABC Themes from Spell Out Loud

Totally Tots A to Z

God's Little Explorers Book Cover

 

FREE Letter of the Week Preschool Program: Read to Me & ABC

Literature Based Unit Studies:

Ready-Set-Read Books by Theme with links to activities

Themed Curriculum Units:

Mommy-Made-Printables

2 Teaching Mommies Preschool Unit Studies

Preschool Printable Packs from Homeschool Creations

Preschool Packs

Counting Coconuts Mini Units (robots, candy, space, Mickey Mouse, & Halloween)

3Dinosaurs (over 30 printable packs!)

Itsy Bitsy Learners– over 10 themes

Ready-Set-Read free zoo theme printable pack

Mommy Made Printables Christmas

weather unit

 

 

Montessori/Tray Work:

Montessori-Inspired Literature-Based Activities for Preschoolers

 

Happy and Blessed Home

Trillium Montessori The Continent of Africa

The Pinay Homeschooler Montessori Inspired Learning

Preschool-Work-Trays.jpg

Workboxes:

Homeschool Creations Workbox Ideas

1+1+1=1 Workboxes

Mama Jenn’s Workbox planning sheets and tags

 

FREE Preschool Programs:


Encompass is a 4-day per week curriculum

Preschool Homeschool Weekly Lesson Plans - Mud Hut Mama

 

Reading the Alphabet, free preschool reading curriculum

Planning Forms (just in case you really wanna do your own thing!)

Homeschool planner pages

Homeschool Creations Preschool Planning Form

Filed Under: Family, Freebies, Frugal Living, Homeschooling, Lil' Red, Preschool Prep

Preschool Prep: Preschool Assessment

July 22, 2013 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

Preschool Prep: Preschool Assessment

 (Disclosure: There may be affiliate links within this post. The links provide a way for us to support our site and provide great ideas and content to you!                                   Thanks for your support.)

 

Preschool Prep: Preschool Assessment

 What is Preschool Prep?

Do you have a young child or two who has outgrown Tot School and is ready for Preschool? Have you looked at all the free online choices during your preschool preparation? Does thinking about preschool curriculum make your head spin? Well, I know that the amount of free “Letter of the Week” and “Themed” curriculum is astounding.

I am creating the Preschool Prep series to help other moms and caregivers out! I have spent lots of time researching and planning for Preschool for Lil’ Red and I want to pass on this wealth of knowledge and resources to my readers!
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Filed Under: Freebies, Homeschooling, Preschool Prep

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