A couple weeks ago I started doing preschool at home with Miss Eden. We are doing a letter of the week approach and so far it's going really well. She loves it and actually looks forward to it everyday. We do school time during the babies first nap and it's great because she gets my complete attention to herself. I have been having fun too!
Each day we review the letter and the ASL sign for that letter. I took sign language in high school so it's really fun getting to teach her.
Then we go over "Theme Words" - I show her the word on an index card and by the end of the week she can pretty much tell me what all the words are. I actually put a black and white picture of the object on the other side just to make it more fun.
We also read poems or nursery rhymes, review our song of the week & a memory verse of the week.
She is loving it and she catches on very quickly. We try to go to the library on Monday's to find books that start with the letter of the week and we usually do a craft or activity each day.
Here she is working hard...
For our first week we learned all about the letter A.
Here are some of the things she did and learned...
-Adam & Eve was our Bible story
-"A" Theme words - Apple, Astronaut, Ant, Alligator, Ambulance
-Poems/Rhymes of the week - Applesauce by Martha T. Lyon, Apple Song by Frances Frost & Ten Red Apples (author unknown)
-The song of the week was "The Ants Go Marching"
-Bible verse of the week was Genesis 1:1 (to the tune of "Here We Go Looby Loo")
(If you are interested, I get the memory verses from this website. I think this makes Bible memorization fun!)
-She learned fun facts about alligators and ants & here is what she made!
-She learned all about Africa too! Nick and I went to Rwanda before we got married so it was really neat to show her all the pictures and talk about our trip there. She learned that Africa is home to the largest desert (Saraha), the longest river (Nile), the tallest mountain (Mt. Kilimanjaro), the largest land animal (elephant), the tallest land animal (giraffe), the fastest land animal (cheetah) and the largest primate (gorilla).
Below is Eden with her African necklace she colored...
And here she is with Mommy's...
-She learned all about apples and how they start from seeds and grow to be yummy, delicious apples! I found a neat book at the library that has lots of good pictures and a story about how apples start as seeds, grow into trees and how the tree produces the apple.
We made homemade applesauce together and it was yummy! The babies loved it too. She also made this neato apple out of a paper plate, construction paper scraps that she tore and the leaf at the top is her little hand print.
-I also had her learn to trace the letter "A" and we worked on counting and simple addition and subtraction. I gave her a piece of paper I printed that had 6 squares on it. In each square there was a different number of dots. I gave her animal crackers and had her fill the squares with the right number of animal crackers according to the number of dots in each square. She did it so fast and did it correctly. I was very impressed!
She is so smart and I'm so proud of my little munchkin!
Here is a picture of all the stuff she did that week.
My happy student...
Have a great weekend!!
