I have made some major changes to our preschool. The girl I visit teach has a mom that actually does have a real preschool. She sent me huge box full of preschool activities. I am so excited to use all the stuff. The new preschool schedule is as follows:
1.) Coloring: they get to color papers that show a particulat season, activity, or holiday and we talk about the paper. They must write their name and last name on the back of the paper.
2.) Letter of the Week: We sing our ABC's and sign them in ASL. We make a giant picture project of that letter in the begging of the week. For example, this week we make the Ark and hung animals from the Ark. The sentence on the Ark that we read everyday is Aa is for Ark and Animals. Each letter will have a different picture project. We learn about a letter and color a paper with that letter and pictures of things that start with the letter. They must circle all the letter of the week letters in the words on the paper. Then they must right the letter upper and lower case and a word starting with that letter on the back. I stress the lowercase letters more than the upper case because they read more lower case than upper case.
3.) Science Time: They all get to pick a Magic School Bus Book. We read it. There may be a science project also. Right now our main science focus is on our growing butterflies.
4.) Reading: They all pick one or two sight word books that they must read them selves and point to the words.
5.) Our Earth: We are learning our states, continents, and already know many of our countries. We identify the North and South poles and the equator. We are learning how to read maps and a globe. We are also learning the planets and their position from the sun. You will be surprised how easy it is to teach young children these things. They already know so much.
6.) Reader Rabbit: They get to pick between doing reader rabbit math or reading.
7.) Sometimes we will do art projects.
