First day of Homeschool Preschool

[Hayliesmom]

I'm writing this blog so I can keep track of my daughter's progress in what I teach her.  Throughout the last 3 1/2 years I have been teaching her various things, but never in a formal setting.  I decided to start having her sit down and have "school time" with me.  Today was the first day:

We started with the Kumon workbook on writing UpperCase letters.  I really like this workbook, it teaches them letters in order of easiest to write to hardest. In the book they have about 3 squares for the letters with dotted lines so they can trace.  It starts out with verticle lines, then horizontal, a review of the 2 and then the letters L and T.  After she finished the L, I used preschool paper and reinforced the L without the dotted lines for her to trace.  This was a litte more difficult then I expected.  I bought the paper with the raised lines, so that they can feel  where to keep there letters between, but that didn't really help with her; I grabbed a crayon and drew the same color line across the top and bottom so she knew to stay between those lines.  I drew an L for her, then I helped her draw one, and after that she was writing L's all on her own.  We then repeated the same steps for the letter T.  Since I didn't want to overwhelm her too much, we took a break from the letters and used a sesame street counting workbook.  She had to count and color the bats.  This was an easy project for her because it was only 3 bats on the page, but she got to color.  I'm hoping maybe all the coloring activities will help her learn to stay within the lines!! After she finished coloring we opened up our 3rd workbook and she had to circle items that were in pairs, and then items that were near/far.  After this, we went back to the preschool paper, and wrote our L's and T's a few more times and were done for the day!

I want to start off slow, we're doing 30 min 2 days a week of the "schoolwork".  I'm hoping we'll eventually work up to longer periods of time, switching activities so she doesn't get bored, but I'll be staying with the 2 days a week policy for awhile.  I'm going to continue with the uppercase letters in order from easiest to hardest, but after this we may start a letter of the week.  That way when she starts lowercase letters, we'll also do words and activities that start with that letter. 

[JennBear54]

Sep. 16, 2009 at 11:25 AM

sounds like it's going really well

http://wkhsadventure.blogspot.com/

that's my journal for our hs too!