Tracy's Treasury
PreSchool Curriculum
I'm
excited to share my collection of fun, educational activities
for pre-school age children with YOU! Whether you just want
to grab a few ideas for "Mommy and Me" activities with your
preschool age child or you're looking for a free pre-school
curriculum you can use to teach your child yourself at home,
I hope you find my site helpful. Regardless of how you do
PreSchool, be sure to read my
PreSchooling page before leaving
my site! It explains my philosophy behind this program and
shows what skills are most important to help your child
develop during these years. It also gives some
food-for-thought as to whether or not it's a good idea to
start academics early.
A
little about TT PreSchool Lessons:
Below, I link to my archive of pre-school activities, divided
by category. You simply pick an activity to do each day; the
plans are very fluid. They don't take that long to complete,
and if you don't get through with it one day, you just pick
it up the next day. I think that it's important for
pre-schoolers to have plenty of free time to play, imagine,
explore and build blanket forts... and I think that too much
time spent in structured activities with children this age
can become a crutch. They need to know how to entertain
themselves, and shouldn't be whiney for Mom to constantly be
their playmate. On the flip side, these are precious years!
My son and I both enjoy having some "Mommy & Me" time to
do a special activity together. I guess it all comes down
to balance. These are
special years. Embrace them, enjoy them, and have fun
together! Without further adieu...
1.
Daily Activity
The daily activity
is the part that changes day-to-day, and is the bulk of what
I'm sharing on my site. Click each of the following links to
access my archive of activities for each category.
Mondays: Math-Readiness
activity
Tuesdays:
Art 
Wednesdays:
Reading-Readiness
activity
Thursdays:
Handwriting-Readiness
activity
(and
if the activity's short we may do Art too)
Fridays: Play Time
2.
Bible Lesson
For the bible
lesson, we are working our way through the Bible, self-paced.
Since I make these lessons up as I go, you're more or less on
your own in this area, but check my Bible Lesson Material for
Kiddos page for
resources and Bible story book recommendations. If you're
doing an actual lesson (rather than just reading from a
bible story book) then I'd recommend doing it on Monday,
Wednesday and/or Thursday, which are the days that the
daily activity is pretty short. Tuesday and Friday are art
and imaginative play, which tend to be more open-ended on
time.
3.
Literature
This is just a daily reminder to read-aloud together. We may
read books from his bookshelf or books from the library. And
the time spent varies from day to day, anywhere from 10
minutes to 30 or more (we also do bedtime stories, but those
must come to an end for the sake of bedtime- so this is his
open-ended time to read as long as he wants). My policy is
that if he's asking to read more more more I don't refuse
him. I whole-heartedly encourage a love of reading.
Check out
my Read-Aloud for the Love of
Reading page!
4. Physical Play
This is just a daily reminder to do something physically
active. It may be just about anything that exercises the
larger muscles of the body.
Here are ideas for
indoor and outdoor Physical Play
Are
you using TT PreSchool in your home?
If you want to use this as your pre-school curriculum, my
suggestion is to bookmark this page. When you're planning
your day then come here and click the appropriate day's
"subject" (Monday is Math Readiness, Tuesday is Art, etc.)
and choose what "Daily Activity" you want to do for the day,
then visit my Physical Play page to choose your "Physical
Play." Other than that, do your own Bible Story or lesson,
and be sure to read-aloud each day. I'd suggest a weekly or
bi-weekly trip to the library. It's as simple as that. I'd
also enjoy hearing from you!
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