Taylor is going to start preschool this year. So I've been making lists of things to buy for home schooling. And I had it all set out to start around August 13th. That would give me time to get everything, and get organized, and have it all planned out. But as soon as I bought the big work book, page protector, and her folder, she was off! Everyday she asks for school. So, for the past week we have been doing school. We have most of the supplies, and she is LOVING every minute of it!
I hate wasting money, and since we will have 3 children going through these materials at some point, I am trying to find little ways to help save money/.materials/etc. So here is how I do work sheets. I put each page in a page protector and then put tape at the top, and then put them in her little folder. I let her use dry erase markers on the page protectors and so far its worked great!
Of course preschool is also ALOT of fun activities. I have a few activities planned out for the week, and we do them either once or twice(or more!) times that week. This week are doing activities that deal with counting and numbers and sorting.
Again, I'm all about saving money when possible! I used white paper and a marker to make the counting mat. Then we used cheerios(that both kids ate while we were doing the activity!) to count out each number. It was a lot of fun and Taylor LOVED it! I plan on putting that paper in a page protector as well, and having a big binder full of fun little things like this to help teach her things.
I'm working on making bingo games for both. Each game will be with either numbers, shapes, colors, or letters. And as Taylor learns more we will add in small sight words, and things like that. For Ryder I'm thinking about making a special game with pictures of cars/trucks/planes/etc. And then I will of course have to make a special one for Taylor. But you get the idea. Just fun ways to teach them things-and save money at the same time :)
