Our Curriculum

I have decided this year to use the curriculum from www.preschoolpalace.org  I love the fact that as a new mom to homeschooling a preschooler, they give me the full curriculum, lesson plans, song ideas, themes, sensory ideas, crafts, and much more.  I am looking forward to sharing our ideas as we move forward with this.

Small steps to education

 

 

I took some time today to update our Calendar wall, and we started working on computer skills.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Starting her out on a www.fisher-price.com

 

Imagination Station

Chugga, Chugga, CHOO!

Watch out!

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New Happenings

Every weekend we try to do something fun with the kids that is not outrageous in price.  There are lots of fun and non-expensive things to do, but this weekend we decided to take them fishing.  Kylie, our oldest daughter, always has a good time. Tristan, our son,  is just learning, and our youngest daughter, Meghan, just went on her first trip with her own fishing pole. 

 

 

She had so much fun just reeling it in and seeing if the  worm was still on the hook or not.  You can tell she’s not  focused on her line at all .

 

 

Inspiring starts to an amazing journey

Some may wonder why I am starting “so young” with my daughter, but after having the preschool experience while I worked in the City school system, she has loved school ever since.  We have neighbors who Homeschool, and when I told her she was not allowed to play with their kids because they were in school, she began asking if she could go to school. With not having the funds to put her back into school, due to not working at this time, I took this opportunity to start working with her on some preschool pages from a random book I had bought at Wal-mart.

This is a preview of what she started to do last year. We did shapes, colors, and some calendar time.  She enjoyed it so much, that it inspired me to do a full curriculum this year with her. 

 

She did a great job organizing her shapes.

 

 

 

Loved sorting her colors.

 

 

 

 

She enjoyed every minute of this and has enjoyed getting supplies for this coming year. We can’t wait to get started, and share our discoveries with you. 

 

 

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Just starting

Being a former teacher, my first approach to homeschooling was, "How hard can this be?"  Well, when you are working with children that are not your own, in a professional environment, I soon learned this was a lot easier.  Homeschooling our daughter is mentally exhausting for me and scary as I do not want to "mess up" her education. I am constantly researching, planning, and gathering materials.

Starting out on the journey to work with our daughter at home is intimidating, but fun.  Thanks to an amazing friend who has been homeschooling for the past 6-7 years, and some websites I have found, I am not as intimidated by my first year of working with our daughter as I thought I would be.  Thank you to www.preschoolpalace.org for the amazing job in lesson planning and ideas that they have.  I do plan to use this curriculum the first year and then add in ideas from other websites and modify as needed as we progress along.

I always welcome prayer, thoughts, and new ideas.  As previously mentioned I was a teacher for five years, but circumstances took me away from that, and I can honestly say, I see where God has brought me to a much better place in my life and I am thankful for the journey.

Please join us on our journey into homeschooling, and thank you for taking the time to read our notes.  We will be sharing our ideas and again, welcome yours.

 

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