2nd day

[Hayliesmom]

Today was our second day of homeschool preschool.   I started Haylie off by writing her L's and T's some more on the pre-school paper.  Since we're also trying for letter recognition I asked her several times, what letter is this? While she was writing them.  I want her to know the letter's names and not just "down and over" lol.  After writing a line of L's and a line of T's, we moved on to one of her Sesame Street counting workbook.  It had her count to the trucks on the page and color them.  This part was easy for her so it's nice to have something easy to do between the harder work.  At the bottom of the page it had a space to trace 1,2,3 and then write them.  It didn't really have instruction to it, and was actually difficult.  She traced the numbers no problem, but when it came towriting that was another story.  She wrote the 1 no problem, but I helped her with the 2 several times and even after she couldn't do it on her own.  We didnt even attempt the 3.  One of her other notebooks has numbers in it, so we'll be doing that soon, but I'm debating buying the Kumon workbook on numbers for her, since she is seeming to do better learning to write from those.   After we finished the numbers, we moved on to her third workbook.  Today's focus was colors and near and far.  Again the colors were something easy for her to do after the difficult number writing.  It had her match space pictures and color each one a specific color, and she got it right everytime.  Then we moved on to near and far.  She got the first one wrong, but after that all were correct.  We started on the next page of the workbook which introduced "next to" "above" and "below".  These seemed very confusing to her, and hopefully she'll do better on our next school day.  I'm not sure if its just the words that confused her, or if she was tired of school and distracted by the project supplies on the table.  We finished the session up by glueing beans onto construction paper with the letters "L" and "T" written on them.  I'll have to go buy some new glue, because it was very hard to squeeze the glue out, and there was no way she could do it on her own.  I plan on doing it with each letter, so hopefully by the time all is done, she can glue in a straight line! 

[Brittney357]

Sep. 15, 2009 at 2:00 PM

That sounds like fun! P has some workbooks that he really likes and I got them at the dollar tree.  Some are specific (numbers, letters, first words) and some are an assortment of things and have "which picture is different" and "which one is bigger/smaller" and stuff...and they were $1 each so try getting some of those.  I like the idea of gluing beans to the letters!

[Hayliesmom]

Sep. 16, 2009 at 10:51 AM

I'll have to keep an eye out at the dollar store.  I looked this past weekend but they only had ones for addition, multiplication and such.  I know they carry them for preschoolers, but they seem to always be out at my dollar store!

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