Friday, May 30, 2014

Can I do school work?



"Mommy, Mommy, can I do school work?"

I am very thankful I hear that statement at least once a day. Or that when I say, "Hannah, let's do school work," she gets extremely excited. I've done my due diligence this year to spark an excitement for learning in Hannah (who is 3 1/2 years old). Some days I easily kept her focused and other days I hardly kept her focused 10 minutes max.

In August last year I spent several evenings finding some kind of activities for every letter of the Alphabet. Thanks to Pinterest I was able to be "creative," or rather borrow someone's creativity. I tried to get enough things to spend a week on each letter and then placed everything I needed in a file folder so each day would be ready and easy to get going. I learned quickly the longer it took me to get things together the less interested my little tot was going to be in whatever I had planned for the day. I'm anxiously awaiting the day I can have a space with everything perfectly organized.

This is how I attempted to have our "school work" go each week:
Monday: Introduction of the letter, practice tracing the letter
Tuesday: Practice Numbers, find and count the letter of the week
Wednesday: Shapes and Colors: color the letter of the week
Thursday: Make an Animal with the letter of the week
Friday: Lowercase letter of the week, more practice writing, coloring or painting

Now I have three months to figure out what I'm going to do with her this year because she has progressed and needs that daily structure. Any extra tips or suggestions for a good curriculum of sorts for a pre-k learner would be fabulous. 

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