Oct. 17, 2009

The little people in my life

I've been working hard at involving the younger ones into my daily schedule but admit I could do more. Our (almost) 17 month old loves to help with unloading the dishwasher, sweeping and carrying things around (rearranging) often as most little ones do. Here she is helping me clean up after I made a birthday cake. Not exactly the spot I want her *IN* my dishwasher, but hey she is helping! Never mind the butter cream frosting on her upper lip and the fact that her leggings were already removed probably because the cake was just too good and went everywhere despite a bib. A few years ago I heard the wise saying that "play is practice for the future" which motivates me to involve the children when I can. My goal over the next year is to have the children help me with kitchen prep more. For Kindergarden and preschool we don't spend a lot of time doing seat work, maybe 20 minutes each day. My Kindergardener does a worksheet that we get in "My Father's World" and does some letter recognition, hand's on learning like play-dough letters or other activity, usually suggested by the manual. We also go over a Bible theme that they have suggested and do Bible reading and Bible memory with the older children. For Preschool I really like Rod & Staff preschool books and Kumon workbooks when we have them. We seem to go through those very quickly. A big part of our schooling at this age is reading books which sometimes the older two can do for reading credit.

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