Easy Homeschool Preschool

Set up/Supplies

1. Large cork board with alphabet and “Weekly Focus”
2. Display board for finished work of the week
3. Binder with folder tab dividers for easy retrieval
   1. Large alphabet uppercase and lowercase for coloring
   2. Alphabet activity page (not all of the middle section pictures have things that just start with the letter. For example G sheet had grapes and grasshopper which start with a “gr” sound not just a “g” sound)
      1. The Measured Mom has a better activity page if you sign up for their newsletter.
   3. Alphabet do-a-dot page
   4. Number Find
   5. Bug Count and Color
   6. Tracing Sheet (Put in a page protector to use repeatedly)
4. Weekly Focus Needs
   1. Days of the week written on note cards
   2. Weather options drawn on note cards
      1. Sunny
      2. Cloudy
      3. Partly Sunny
      4. Snowing
      5. Raining
5. Other materials
   1. Buttons
   2. Pom Poms
   3. Crayons
   4. Do-A-Dot Markers (I bought mine at Goodwill)
      1. Stamp markers would also work
   5. Stickers
   6. Note cards
   7. Page protectors
   8. Small dry erase markers with eraser on end
   9. Push pins
   10. Rubbing Plates (I got the red ones in store)
   11. Dice
   12. Empty plastic container for pom poms
   13. Tongs (we use the ones from our play kitchen)
   14. Lacing
   15. Educational Cards

What we usually do

It’s not daily, we just go with the flow of the week and usually get in 2-3 days of preschool

Weekly Focus

• We sing the days of the week song and then change the day.
• Jane looks out the window and picks out the picture that matches outside.
• I say our letter for the week and make the letter’s sound.
• You can also switch out the number, shape, and color for the week if you choose to incorporate those into your lessons. Jane has a pretty good grasp of the aforementioned items so we don’t actively work on them.

Warm-up

Pattern work: I set up a pattern using the buttons or pom poms, whichever Jane chooses, and she finishes the pattern. We usually do three patterns and then I let her create her own pattern.

Main “Lesson”

• Day 1: Large uppercase and lowercase letters. I have Jane pick one of the rubbing plates and place the printed letter over it and we “trace/make” the letter using her finger. I help her 1-2 times and then her do it on her own a couple of times. Then she uses do-a-dot, stickers, or crayons to color in the letters. I try to get her to stay inside the lines but sometimes she gets a little carried away.
  • While working on the letters I say, “(letter of the week) says (letter sound) like (2 words that start with the letter)”
    • For example, “D says D, like Dog and Dirt.”
    • I try to do it rhythmically with emphasis on the letter of the week sound to help her remember the sound better.
• Day 2: We do the Alphabet Activity Page and the Alphabet Do-A-Dot page while making the letter sound and saying words that start with our letter.
• Day 3: Numbers/Counting
  • We do the number find and bug count and color.
  • We do these activity sheets about every other week.

Ending Activity Options

• Pom Pom Counting Game
  • Divide the pom poms evenly between players.
  • Player one rolls the die/dice
  • Player one counts out that many pom poms and places them in the empty plastic container using his/her hand or the tongs
  • Player two takes and turn.
  • First player to put all the pom poms in the container wins
• Tracing Sheets placed in page protector. I let Jane pick which page and often have to help her with a couple of lines to get started.
• Lacing
• Color by number (if she still wants to color)
• Educational cards
• Sorting activities
  • Buttons by color or size
  • Pom poms by color
  • Things in her room by color, shape, or type of item