I'm taking a bit more of a break in this whole Preschool at home teaching. With a one year old running around, I find that my 4 year old is always so distracted. After breakfast Shrade usually practices writing his name and does a coloring or tracing worksheet related to the theme. During lunch we read a book related to the theme and then somewhere in between we do a craft. I don't have this figured out, but I know that we are having fun and my son is learning a lot!
Also, I'm going to start a new reading program with BOB books and printables that are made by six blogs working together. I'll share more about that in another post!
I don't come up with any of these ideas on my own. I LOVE Pinterest! So here are a few things we did this week for letter E. I am also concentrating on lowercase letter crafts since we did all capital letter crafts from ages 2-3.
Books we read:
Crafts we made:
Elmer the Elephant
little e- Shrade does all the cutting and gluing!!
This was a very busy month. I didn't get to do everything I planned, but we did more than I planned in other areas. Be looking for some fall crafts we did soon. Books we read:
Lesson Plans:
*My Letter D lesson plans (although I didn't do all of these).
*All of my ideas were taken from my Pinterest board (except Dog's Colorful Day- I thought of that!) for Letter D.
How do we start our day? I've been trying to figure out a better morning routine and this is what I came up with and is working for the most part. It is similar to what I did when I was teaching, but way more relaxing! I hope to build on it as my kids get older.
Well, doing preschool at home is definitely way different when you have a little sister who is SO busy. I honestly can't do anything quiet when she is awake so that's when we have morning learning time.
At breakfast I usually read the Bible verse for our Fall Bible Reading Adventure. Shrade and I usually have a discussion about what the verse means. I'm amazed at what he wants to know at 3 years old. Starting young is SO important. He already knows that the Bible is written by God. Wow!
After breakfast, Shrade goes to the bathroom and when he comes back we sit in front of the calendar and sing the days of the week. We talk about the months of the year and sing that song too. We talk about the letters in the name of the month and count the numbers up to the day and put on the new number.
Then we go into the living room and I play several CD's with fun music that we sing and dance to. Jessna really loves this part!
For Bible time, Shrade and I sit in the couch and listen to one story from the The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name and then discuss it. Jessna usually is walking around the room and occasionally comes to touch the book.
After this I do a little learning activity with Shrade that is either math or letter related. Here are some examples:
Musical Letters
Block work
Playdough snake with # on the popsicle sticks
Fun with cheerios
This all takes about an hour. Then we have a little bit of free play so I can clean up the kitchen and then Jessna takes her morning nap. At that time I do the preschool lesson for the letter of the month with Shrade. You can see all the things we do HERE.
And honestly, it doesn't work out the same way everyday, but it's a start!
It's been fun, but exhausting embarking on this preschool at home. If it were just my son and myself, I think it would be a lot easier, but we have to work in preschool time between little girl's nap times. When she is awake, it is impossible to have preschool. However, we are starting a morning routine which involves both children and is very successful. I will share that in a different post. But this month we did read books and did activities and crafts all centered around letter C. I organized this post into books, activities and crafts. I also am doing several pages with coloring, tracing and reading that I will share at the end of this post.
Bible:
This month we are using Raising Rock Stars Bible verse as our base verse for the month.
Toilet Paper Tube Craft from The Activity Mom- a carrot
C is for cloud (using cotton balls)
C is for Clock. We also counted all the clocks in our house.
C is for cat
C is for caterpillar
C is for crab (can't get it to go the other way)
Lesson plans and other stuff:
*Here are my lesson plans. I choose 10 areas for the preschool curriculum and write all my lessons from there. I tried to do everything I wrote, but it doesn't always happen. LESSON PLANS for LETTER C
*Preschool Pages- All of these links are found on my Pinterest page Letter C ideas.
, Seed's Family Worship: Seeds of Courage 1
, Rizers Rise Up
and many others. We pick up lots of fun CD's from the library too. 
and then discuss it. Jessna usually is walking around the room and occasionally comes to touch the book.
