Homeschooling

I realize we haven’t been at this long, but there are already some pretty clear benefits of this Preschooling at Home adventure: Alexa no longer begs for the TV in the morning, and less and less throughout the day.  It’s pretty awesome how much better at self-directed playtime she’s become.  The morning routine has trained [...]

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We live in a very colorful home, so there was so doubt letter C week would kick off with COLORS.  This was a really fun week.  I tried to incorporate other mediums into the mix by cooking (snuck another C in there) something that started with our letter.  CUPCAKES it was!  We also took our [...]

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This week was pretty amazing.  Alexa definitely gets that letters make sounds.  She has started to sound out the first letter of words on request.  We started with Ba Ba Ba Balloon starts with Ba Ba Ba *B*!  Now if you ask her what a word starts with she’ll repeat the first syllable and usually [...]

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So far I’m really enjoying having this bit of structure in our day.  It makes the mornings go by super fast and keeps Alexa from asking for “TV on” as soon as we come downstairs for breakfast.  Our first week wasn’t perfect, but it was definitely a success. For next week I adjusted the schedule [...]

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We’ve completed our first week of Preschool at Home and we’ve both learned a lot!  For the first day I set up our alphabet wall and laid out all of the books for our day of animals.  When Alexa woke up and came downstairs she was amazed.  She exclaimed that it was “beautiful” and said [...]

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