How to Home Preschool?

Hello J.,

Dollar Tree has the alphabet and number chart you can hang for him to look and practice with.

I strongly recommend the leapfrog videos. they're awsome!

there is a ton of stuff online

http://www.learningpage.com/free_pages/home.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/
http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&...
http://www.kids.gov/
http://www.starfall.com/
http://www.beritsbest.com/
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index...

Good luck! ~C.~

Look on-line for resources or go to book stores - Half Price Books has a home-schooling section. I also bought a preschool workbook from WalMart that is great. I'm "home-schooling" my 3 year old, who loves to learn and read. We set aside about an hour each day to sit down together and go over numbers (she can count to 12) shapes and colors. We also read together twice a day, and explore/ investigate things we talk about on the internet (she wanted to know what sound a zebra makes!!). We also have painting days, craft days, etc and for these I usually get ideas from the internet. I usually incorporated a lot of our learning in other things we do during the day as well - count out cheerios, ask her what color top she wants to wear, etc - this reaffirms our lessons.
Hope this helps.

dltk kids, the workbooks at walmart, a walk in the park finding different leaves and talking about bigger, smaller, hotter, colder, wetter, drier - you name it.

S.

RECOVERING THE LOST TOOLS OF LEARNING is a book you might want to pick up. These years are the time to memorize and play with "chemistry" (my son loved the soda and vinegar) and physics (backyard ballistics is fun, too). If you do puzzles, go ahead and tell him they are too old for him and if he has an aptitude, you will find him solving ones designed for older children; but if he cannot solve them, they will get him thinking in a different way and it will be an opportunity for you to help him think them through.

try teacher supply stores. that's where we have found some great supplies to supplement what my oldest needed other than school, as well as preK things for my youngest.

Look at www.abeka.com for curriculum and/or ideas for what he should know at his age.

There are a lot of sources out there. If you want to look at some different curriculum the Arlington Homeschool Bookfair is next weekend. http://www.homeschoolbookfair.org/
Very informative. My suggestions would be to check out the My Father's World booth and Sonlight booth. There are a lot of other boothes there as well. My Father's World is not as costly as Sonlight but it seems like a great curriculum.
http://www.sonlight.com/
http://www.mfwbooks.com/

Five In A Row is another quite a few people seem to like.
http://www.fiveinarow.com/

I hope that helps.

D.

ETA: Starfall.com is a free site with phonics.

http://www.letteroftheweek.com/Preparatory.html

here is a preparatory course that is age appropiate for preschool. We use it and like it!

The best books I have found are the Series called "what your Kindergartner needs to know" then the "what your first grader needs to know" and they go on from there. Get the book and just follow along and pick up things at walmart to supplement what that book says or from wherever. the homeschool bookfair in Arlington is next weekend, but most things can get kinda pricey. THe "what your ....." can be found at half price books used most often. You can also use the local library to research and check out some homeschool books that will help you get started with out alot of investment to start with. You can also google around and see what comes up under scope and sequence for pre-school, especially with Abeka.
Good luck,
L.