Friday, September 16, 2005
Last week we started preschool at home. We don't do it at any specific time of the day: sometimes it's first thing in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon. Sometimes we're dressed, sometimes we're in our pajamas. Sometimes we spend two hours on preschool, sometimes half an hour. But we do it almost every day and Noah is in heaven. I hope I can keep up with it, with the arrival of number four, but for now we've all been enjoying the time together. Anyway, last week we made a "Book About Me" and talked about ourselves and our family and all of our favorite things and worked on memorizing our phone number and address. The boys toted the books everywhere we went for a few days and loved showing them to anyone that would look. This week we talked about names and worked on spelling and writing our first and last names. We played "Name Bingo" and shaped our names with playdough and of course made the name boards I blogged earlier. I'm also working on getting Noah to recognize the alphabet in lowercase (and Denver, the letters in Uppercase) and so far it's going very well. This next week we're talking about the Five Senses and then we're talking about Feelings. I suppose this is a month all about ourselves. Then we'll move onto Autumn and Apples and of course, Halloween come the month of October. I still don't know how all you homeschoolers do it, especially with more than one child at different levels. So much work is required. But I suppose it all pays off--especially with Noah. He sure does love preschool time and it's nice to finally be doing something right by him.
 
Anyway, I found a couple of great books in the process of teaching preschool and thought I'd share a few. My favorite of the week (and one I'm adding to my wishlist) is I Love My Daddy by Sebastien Braun. He has also written I Love My Mommy, but I haven't read that one yet. If it's anything like the first, I'm sure it's great. Todd Parr writes a bunch of great books, but my favorite was It's Okay To Be Different, another one I want to add to my wishlist. And along the same theme is Whoever You Are by Mem Fox. Two great books about homes that the boys really liked are Whose House? by Barbara Seuling and Castles, Caves and Honeycombs by Linda Ashman. Happy reading! Happy teaching! Happy learning!
posted by Shana # 9:59 PM 
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