My three-year-old would love to go to school. But as cool as she thinks backpacks and school buses are, she's definitely not ready emotionally to be in preschool. So we're doing "preschool" at home. I made a schedule and everything. My sister in another state is doing the same with her son and the cousins are going to skype and show each other their projects.
This week we talked about ocean animals. (Last week was zoo animals. We went to the zoo. The end.) I got out our Planet Earth DVDs and we watched some clips of ocean animals. Throughout the day we talked about what lives in the ocean and we made a list. I printed off pictures of whales and dolphins and we figured out what was biggest and what was longest. I printed off a coloring page of a shark and she colored it. That afternoon we watched Finding Nemo to figure out what other animals live in the ocean that we hadn't thought of yet.
And very fittingly (and unplanned) Daddy came home early and took her fishing (so it was a pond, not the ocean, but still, it had fish).
I meant to go over the letter A last week, but never got to it. And I'm still not sure how to teach letters. Any advice?
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| Our wall of projects. |
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| Which is biggest? Which is longest? |
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| Note the first three on our list. This was all my daughter. She told me: fishes, sharks, and little fishes. |
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| Coloring page (with more than one color!). |
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| Field trip: going fishing. |
