Preschool at Home

Today was Thursday.  And then I realized, he started school this week.  He doesn’t know it… and I didn’t know it either.

Monday

• Played with “magic sand;” sensory play, fine motor skills, creativity
• Outside/PE time for 2+ hours; PE, gross motor skills, nature
• Gardening; science, nature
• Watched Olympic clips; sports, athletics, body movement

Tuesday

• Played with Play-doh; sensory play, fine motor skills, creativity
• Friends over for a play date; social skills, sharing, taking turns, cooperation
• Read LOTS of picture books; literature, rhyme, reading skills
• Peeled a cucumber; cooking, fine motor skills

Wednesday

• Did dishes; step-by-step process, work skills, water/sensory play
• First aid (peeled finger rinsing peeler), stopping blood flow, etc.; first aid, health, safety
• STARTED OUR FIRST CHAPTER BOOK, Charlotte’s Web!!!  {I was only *slightly* over the moon about this, can you tell???}  He listened with rapt attention and seemed to love it! 😀 😀 😀
• Social time at youth volleyball night – met new friends and played with familiar friends; social skills, sports

Thursday 

• Drew/colored with markers (he drew the baby bird from the book Are You My Mother? we read earlier in the week); art, colors, fine motor skills, colors, creativity
• Read picture books; literature, reading
• Read two more chapters from Charlotte’s Web, I gave an example of narrating what we had read so far, paused periodically for him guess what was going to happen; read-aloud, narration, vocabulary
• Sorted toys; organization, sorting by type
• Songs and rhymes
• Electrical work, using staples to attach electrical wire to a board; hand eye coordination, fine motor skills, tool safety, electrical

Nearly every day…

• Read Bible story before bed; Bible, history
• Counting and simple addition; numbers, math
• Free play time – various educational toy sets (Duplo Legos, cooking, wooden train, farm and animals, building blocks, etc.); creativity, imaginative play
• Trampoline jumping; PE, gross motor skills, coordination, balance
• Job/chore – one (or sometimes more) of the following: putting shoes on the shelf, setting the table, dishes, food prep, toy pick-up, house cleaning; work skills, responsibility

I had planned to officially “start” soon… but looking back at this week, I’d say that through intentionally educating throughout normal life, preschool is already in full swing!