PreK Daily Learning Notebook

 

PreK Daily Learning Notebook

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Here is a list with links to what is in my PreK Daily Learning Notebook.  

 

*Confessions of a Homeschooler- PreK Daily Learning Notebook (FREE!)

*Handwriting Worksheets- Make your own for tracing name

*The Measured Mom- Letter of the Week Book List

*This Reading Mama- Letter Tracing (part of the subscriber freebie page)

*Little Learning Lovies- Letter Hunt (Probably a free download somewhere)

*I Can Teach My Child- Goal Setting

*Character Traits from The Measured Mom (can't find link)

*Life Skills from Thriving Family.com (pdf link)

*Manners from Thirty Handmade Days (lots of other great printables on this site)
*Guidelines for Practical Life Skills for kids- Thirty Handmade Days

*Raising Rock Star Preschool Verses (pdf)

*Mailbox Club Lessons

 

Every morning we start with Morning Time and then we go to the table and go through our Daily Learning Notebook clipboard.  I use sheet protectors and dry erase markers for some of the papers.  This is a great way to start the school work time and skills are learned.   I have seen real success and good development toward independent learning using these notebooks/clipboards. 

 

Hope you can get started with Daily Learning Notebooks for your children.  Have a great day learning!  Blessings, Shonda

 

 

Language Lessons for Little Ones Volume 1 from Queen Homeschool

I taught Kindergarten for 12 years and I was given curriculum to teach.  Some of it I liked and some of it I did not, but I had to teach it.  Now that I'm a homeschool Mom, I get to choose what curriculum I want to use with my kids.  This past year I have been anxiously looking for just the right resources to use for PreK.  I am very pleased with what I have decided to use.  I have also found that I am not going to be too traditional in my approach to teaching.  I love to be in a box...but not really!  One of my friends showed me this book and I found it online and decided to use it this year to see if it's something that I will keep up with for Language Arts. 

Language Lessons for Little Ones by Sandi Queen
Perfect for the beginning student, these volumes for ages 3 - 5 introduce a young child to his alphabet letters, picture study, narration, poetry appreciation, and more, while volume 2 adds phonics, copywork of short vowel words progressing to sentences, with nice, largely-spaced lines to write on.

PreK Daily Learning Notebook (age 4-5)

I am so excited about this year!  I finally figured out what I wanted to do with my son and all the pieces are falling into place.  I stumbled around all last year due to the fact that my daughter became mobile and I felt like everything was falling apart.  My teacher instinct (12 years in the classroom) felt all out of place.  So, I have literally been spending lots of time scouring the internet for what will work best for me with minimal preparation and LOADS of learning combined.

This year I am doing PreK with my son who is 4 and will be 5 in November.  It's going to be a great transition year as we look toward Kindergarten in 2014. 

My greatest idea this year was to make a notebook that contains almost all of what we will be doing this year.  I know this will keep me very organized and I can always add things to it and it won't get lost my piles of paper.

First, I downloaded this FREE PreK Daily Learning Notebook from Confessions of a Homeschooler. I sent it off to be printed by FedEx.  Now, I can start adding to it!

*What's in this PreK Daily Learning Notebook?

So, in this notebook there is a weekday sheets, weather and time, I can write my name, 100 days chart, month charts, weather graph, number pages, letter pages, and shape pages.

*What else do I add to this?

Here is a list of what I have added to this notebook: all are FREE

K4 Letter Hunt- Confessions of a Homeschooler
K4 A-Z Handwriting- Confessions of a Homeschooler
K4 1-20 Numbers Writing- Confessions of a Homeschooler
Bible Memory Verses- Raising Rock Stars Preschool at 1+1+1=1
Bible lessons- Calvary Curriculum
The Gospel in the Bible theme page- When You Rise
Report Card- Confessions of a Homeschooler (Preschool Assessment included in a free planner)
PreK Assessment sheets- Me & Marie
All About Me Safety Organizer- This Reading Mama
Goal Setting for Kids- I Can Teach My Child
Preschool Chore Chart- Homeschool Creations
Who I Am in God- Homesteader Homeschool (I couldn't remember where I found this when I made the video, but it is free too!)
Calendar Add in- Mama's Learning Corner

More printable ideas:
First School
Education.com

There are a few more things in here, but you get the basic idea!

Video of our PreK Daily Learning Notebook-

And if you want more ideas about PreK, just visit my Pinterest Board.

I will share a run down of my curriculum and how I plan to do homeschool this year in late August.  I am starting "school" on September 9 since we have visitors coming and several things to wrap up before summer ends!  Love that I can decide this!

Also, we are not going to have a wall calendar like they do in school since little sis keeps taking off the numbers.  We'll utilize that in a few years when she is older.  I'll highlight  special days on his daily learning notebook calendar. 


And stay tuned as I break down how I incorporate how I will use this during my homeschool day!

Next, I'll be sharing what I will be doing with my 2 year old daughter!

Click to see our PreK Curriculum and Toddler Curriculum plans.

Plans for PreK and Toddler School in the Fall!

I am so excited to finally be planning some REAL lessons and being more organized.  It was so hard to narrow down my choices and I am not even sure I have completely done that, but I do have some main resources that I will be using this year as we embark on 1 more year before Kindergarten at home.  I also am going to start doing lessons with my 2 year old. I will be making plans all summer!  I am reading Homeschooling 101 by Erica at Confessions of a Homeschooler and she has me so pumped!   So, here are the plans:

PreK Plans: Fall 2013 (4.5 year old)

 

 

Bible: Calvary Curriculum (FREE)
Prayer- MOB Society monthly prayer calendar
How to Pray-Hand craft 

 Reading the Alphabet with This Reading Mama (FREE curriculum)
30 lessons

PreK Daily Learning Notebook from Confessions of a Homeschooler (FREE)
I love that I had this made into a 3 ring binder.  Then I can add other printables to it!

 

Supplement:

Learn Your Letters, Learn to Serve

from Heavenly Homemakers

 

Math:

 

 

 

 

20 Preschool Math Activities 

School Sparks- Early Learning Worksheets
Along with my many math manipulatives I can make something work!

 

 

 

Other:

 

Cooking-
 Kid's Cooking Activities
 

Teaching Your Kids to Cook

 

Read Alouds:
Library list of  100 books to read before Kindergarten 

 

 

TODDLER: 2 year old (my little girl)
 

 

Brightly Beaming Resources (FREE)- I had such good success with Shrade that I'm going to do it again with Jessna.  Isn't Shrade cute?  He had just turned 2.  Oh, that was so long ago!!

Source: milknhoneylearnandgrow.blogspot.com via Shonda on Pinterest

Ideas from Carisa's book- Where to Begin with Tot School (free by subscribing to the newsletter)

Bible Memory: Songs for Saplings

Read Alouds:
Library list of books about the Alphabet, Counting, Colors and Shapes

And this book has so much great advice for me as a mom-
The Happy Mommy Handbook by Katie Norris and Susan Case

OK, there it is!  I'm so excited to start writing out my plans and figuring out how to occupy these kids, have fun, grow, and make learning natural and learning at home a joyful experience.  I'm so thankful for all the resources that I have found.

Stay tuned as I hope to share HOW I'm planning my days!