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Apr. 30, 2008

Preschoolers in the House?

As a mom who has had preschoolers for about 15 years now, I was always looking for something to do with them.  When we started homeschooling the older ones I looked even harder, how did I keep them busy and happy while I worked with the big kids?  This article from TOS gives great ideas and advice.  Enjoy

 

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Jamin, Freebie Finder

I LOVE teaching preschoolers!  It is so much fun to share the joy of discovery with my little ones. I have a LOT of fun teaching my preschoolers and I have a lot of posts on my blog about what we do. So instead of sharing freebies from the Internet today, I am going to share the resources I already have on my blog.

How I Teach My Preschoolers is a post I wrote about teaching preschoolers by doing a unit study based on the alphabet. This is an easy way to introduce your preschooler to a lot of great information without spending a lot of money.

One of my favorite things to use when teaching my preschoolers is felt board stories. In this post I tell about how I have made over 40 felt board stories to use with my preschoolers! (My older kids like them too!) Likewise Craft Ideas for Preschoolers highlights crafts I have done with my kids and gives links to craft pages I have used with my preschoolers.

Phonics Fun talks about a few simple games you can make to play with your littles to help them learn their letter sounds. In Fashionable Phonics I show how I made a fun phonics t-shirt for my daughter.

Don't forget Lapbooking! My littles LOVE to lapbook!  Here are three preschool lapbooks we have done. Creation, Senses, and Goodnight Moon. These are free and you will find links to the printables in the posts. HERE is a post about an ABC Scrapbook my daughter and I did together. We did a craft for each letter of the alphabet and then put them in a scrapbook. She treasures this to this day!

Here are two posts I wrote about things to do with your littles while you are working with your older children.  School & Little Ones - Part 1 and Part 2.  And then Keeping An Active Five Year Old Happy! gives all kinds of ideas for simple things younger kids can do while mom is busy doing something else.

One last thing, as much as I love teaching my preschoolers, I also love to include them in what the rest of us are doing. Here are three posts where you can see all my kids learning together and loving it: Dissecting Owl Pellets, The Feast, and How to Mummify a Barbie!

Happy Homeschooling,
Jamin
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