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Mom24Blessings -> Pre-k and K Home schoolers... (9/4/2008 11:48:05 AM)

Do you want to start a post of ideas and links for great age appropriate info?

Here are my favorite websites so far, for pre-k & k resources:

http://www.dltk-teach.com/
http://www.dltk-bible.com/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html

(edited only to uncheck the sig, links stretching out the page)



Room2Grow -> RE: Pre-k and K Home schoolers... (9/12/2008 2:51:44 PM)

Ooohhhh- I feel so lost here b/c everyone has older kids- right now it's just my 4 year old so we are doing pre-K without a curriculum. I have tons of early childhood resources from my former life as a teacher, so I use that mostly- feel free to pm me any time with questions or ideas- like I said, I don't come in here all that often since she is still so young.

I love dltk- use it every week

http://www.starfall.com/ is a great site that has phonics "books" that they can read and interact with- dd loves them, though she likes to stick to the first three- working on getting her to branch out to more of them...

If I think of more, I'll stop back!



cynthia -> RE: Pre-k and K Home schoolers... (9/12/2008 5:48:39 PM)

I did not use curriculum when my children were that age. We did lots of reading and I had many fun, creative things for them to play with. We went on nature walks and I told them a lot about the trees and streams, etc. Some of the things I had were pattern blocks, lace and shapes, Play Doh with lots of tools, crayons and various art supplies, an abacus, felt board and whatever else they liked that had them thinking, planning, and creating.



3cappuccinosmom -> RE: Pre-k and K Home schoolers... (9/13/2008 7:48:47 AM)

I didn't use a curriculum, but did use dltk regularly. The letter coloring and practice pages were great for familiarizing Asrat with the alphabet and learning to write.

Jan Brett has a website with coloring pages and handwriting practice too. I don't have the link saved, but it should pop up on google.

Starfall was fun occasionally but we have limited internet time and dialup, so we didn't usei t much.



nerakr -> RE: Pre-k and K Home schoolers... (9/13/2008 9:35:27 AM)

I like Jane Belk Moncure's books. Unfortunately, many of them are out of print. We're using the Sound Box series right now; when we "do kindergarten" next year I'll add what I can find of Word Bird and the Play with vowels series. (They're the ones that appear to be out of print).

I don't know the rest of you feel about TV in general and PBS in particular (I limit what he can watch on it), but the shows Between the Lions and Word World have helped him greatly as well. We also like Curious George and Sid the Science Kid for science. I haven't used them in a formal way yet, but I might for K and 1st until we start Apologia.



PatricksPeaches -> RE: Pre-k and K Home schoolers... (9/13/2008 11:34:35 AM)

I just bought some pre K books from our local dollar store. Now she has a "book" she can scribble in and feel like she is doing school too like her older sister. She has a little back pack that she keeps her goodies in too. She likes to do what big sissy does!!



barbhuff -> RE: Pre-k and K Home schoolers... (9/13/2008 3:45:53 PM)

We love Sid the Science Kid, Word World and Super Why! at our house.

I'm homeschool preschooling my two 4 yo's. Can't afford PS for two, don't really want an empty house yet if I could, and have a degree in early child ed anyway, so I might as well use it for something!



3cappuccinosmom -> RE: Pre-k and K Home schoolers... (9/14/2008 4:02:49 PM)

I was just going to post about the dollar store too! We have Dollar General in our area and they have *tons* of fun stuff. So it's cheap and from China, probably, but we found it useful. [:D] I have found classic books on CD there, easy reader versions of the classics, school supplies of course, handwriting paper, workbooks, manipulatives, puzzles, etc.

We do use dvd's from the library also. One that we discovered was Read-a-lee Deed-a-lee which is a series as old as me[&o], but it's great for early phonics learning. Very short, lots of repetition. There is a new series from the author of The Way THings Work which is *awesome* for physical science stuff (it's gotten my son obsessed with gears and belt drives) and also is in short segments. Bill Nye the Science Guy is a favorite here too.



OneOfHisJewels -> RE: Pre-k and K Home schoolers... (9/14/2008 6:18:03 PM)

Coattailing on what Maggie said..I honestly believe that a reasonably intelligent person can put together a curriculum from Wal Mart and Dollar tree themselves for up to about 4th grade (although if someone WANTS to use Calvert or Sonlight or ABeka or Covenant home, or whatever from pre school on, I have nothing against that either, each to their own)...I've seen plenty of workbooks for math, handwriting, shapes, geography, etc..as well as appropriate hands on activities, puzzles and games...the one thing I don't really see is grammar, but the op was only asking about pre -K and Kindergarten, and those aren't the grammar years.

When I taught pre school, our boss had using the Abeka pre school curriculum, and honestly, it's no better or worse than anything I've seen in the stores..

Of course, I am also a big believer in hands on learning(then again, I'm a kinesthetic learner, so I may be biased[;)])..and although I wasn't homeschooled until 11th and 12th, when I was little, during my non school hours, my mom used wooden letters with me, and I loved that...also, cardboard clocks with brass brads are great...

magnet letters, wooden letters and numbers, wooden shapes, writing in sand, writing in rice, writing with clay and play doh..all great stuff...

as well as of course, painting, playing with felt, etc. etc..



Jenny-Fair -> RE: Pre-k and K Home schoolers... (9/14/2008 6:29:54 PM)

If I had students that age again, I think I would do FIAR and its related programs (Before Five in a Row and the character supplement). I wish I had known about them when mine were little. I wouldn't get any more structured than that until second grade or later.



delete123 -> RE: Pre-k and K Home schoolers... (9/15/2008 11:19:20 PM)

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ORIGINAL: barbhuff

We love Sid the Science Kid, Word World and Super Why! at our house.


Yes! I do wordworld and superwhy with my 2 1/2 yr old. This works out great for him as he tries to answer the questions and pronounces the letters or consonants.
I also buy the art and craft stuff at many of the dollar stores out there. I also have my town which gives the sounds of the letter and it also challenges them. (I think I bought it at target) I also have a kids computer (ages 3-6) it was given to me, but much needed, you should see what he does to mine [:o] I am embarrassed to admit. Lol!
CRH



roligirl -> RE: Pre-k and K Home schoolers... (9/16/2008 10:10:39 AM)

My little guy is turning three in 2 weeks, boy, does he love to learn! But I don't do anything structured, we just have lots of activities available to pull out of the cabinet. I am doing the studying though, reading about teaching reading, getting activities ideas flowing, just being prepared for teaching moments. I don't set a certain time to have a lesson, but just "teach" throughout the day.



Auben -> RE: Pre-k and K Home schoolers... (9/16/2008 10:52:32 AM)

When I did Kindergarten with my 8 year old I think we just had Teach Your Child to Read with 100 Easy Lessons, library books, writing tablets from the dollar store (especially the ones where there's space to draw and then 3 lines), drawing notebooks, art supplies, and starfall.com. We practiced math concepts like counting, patterns, shapes, fractions (halves and quarters), skip counting, ordinal numbers, and measurement during activities like games, cooking, cutting pizzas, sewing, etc.

This time around we added a math workbook (picked it up from a garage sale), the BOB books, and a phonics notebook (letter of the day search and practice) as well.

I wish we had more time for library books this time around. We used to read several at a sitting with my older son, but I have 3 boys doing school this year and I'm still running around too much for that.



Jenny-Fair -> RE: Pre-k and K Home schoolers... (9/16/2008 11:14:42 AM)

Tamara, have the eldest read to the other two. They need read-aloud practice anyway. They can do that while you cook dinner or something.



hjemerson -> RE: Pre-k and K Home schoolers... (9/16/2008 2:14:59 PM)

HELP! Thanks for the ideals I am new to Homeschooling I taught pre school for 15yr But in a class room which is so drifferent than at home! I am working with my 4yr old grand daughter and 2yr old grand son. The 4 year old was to go to pre school this yr but it did not happen, She is very smart and has started to want to read some. she is very coumputer smart we do watch a lot of tv only on Nogin or PBS we go to libary weekly. We cook and have for over a year she understand and is very verbal, I just need a program to get me started ,After I look at that I can all to it. I guess I just lost. Question How do you deal with when they just don"t want to do anything! I know SOme one can help me just send me a mesage and thanks for all the great ideal so far!( I think a Class room of 10 is easier than just one! )



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