First 3 weeks of "preschool!"

I can't believe how fast August is flying by! We are at the end of our 3rd real week of preschool(homeschool). Taylor LOVES school time. She begs for it all the time. -Literally, all the time. First thing in the morning, after breakfast, while outside playing, when we are at the store, in the bath tub, getting ready for bed, etc. I think she really loves it:)

In the past 3 weeks we have done A TON of stuff. And I can't believe how fast she learns! She already knows her entire alphabet, uppercase and lowercase(she does get a little mixed up sometimes but practice with it all will help her). She knows her numbers 1-12(sometimes up to 15, depends on how she feels that day) she knows all colors and shapes.

We have made our own calendar that we go over every day. We made clocks to show the time of Lunch, School, and Bed time since those are about the same every day. We are working on our days of the week. Then moving to months of the year. She loves to write, anything. She can write her name, when she wants to.



What we need to work on for the next month(if baby Denver doesn't make a surprise appearance!) :

Letter sounds   -tons of fun games for this. Example: Do a treasure hunt for toys/books/etc that start with the specific letter sound of that week/day/whatever.

Journal Time   -I LOVE to write, and always have(along with reading:). I would love to some how pass this down to Taylor and the boys. I'm thinking of getting a journal(pad of paper) just for Taylor. And maybe Daily/or every other day, have a topic for her "write about". Maybe I will write down whatever she says, or maybe I will let her write it down or draw pictures about it. I WOULD LOVE to do this for activities like nature walks, have her draw things we see while out on walks etc. Could even turn this into an activity for at the grocery store. Get her in a cart with pen and paper and let her draw things she sees while I grocery shop.

Sorting    -By colors, shapes, amounts. -I have egg crates put up for this! Can't wait to start. Going to use pinto beans for counting and sorting into groups. Then use lego's or blocks or gravels(big/little)for sorting as well. Should be fun!

Patterns  -Recognizing patterns and creating/finish patterns. Could use cut out shapes(scrap paper would be neat!), legos again, beads(really need to buy some of these!), and regular patterns on paper.

Pre-Reading skills. - I will post pictures of what we do when we do this!

Theres more. But for now I can't think of the rest! :/ I will add them later though!