Starting in October, we started a new curriculum for the boys. (My sister and I teach preschool together for our boys who are 6 months apart.) We are using the book,
The Toddler Calendar, and we are liking it a lot better than the curriculum we were using off the internet. Some of the activities are a little advanced still for our boys, but it gives us great ideas for projects/skills we can work on. We meet twice a week for an hour and 30 minutes that includes stories, songs, as well as a craft or activity from the following areas: math, science, social studies, taste, listening, and smell. (The stories cover our language area.) It's been difficult to persevere some days when one or both are in grumpy moods and don't want to do the activities we have planned, but we've seen great improvement in them both.
Some of Caleb's projects that he has done.
For most of the activities, Ariane and I do the prep work of the project, and the kids just do the gluing and/or coloring.
One of our science activities today involved experimenting with what happens to the texture of flour when you add water. They had a fun time.
2 comments:
You forgot to brag about how well Caleb is doing with matching. If Dallin gets one right, he got lucky. Caleb though is 100%. Dallin will catch up eventually.
How fun! I've been SO wanting to start something like that for Tyler but don't really know where to start because there is SO much stuff all over the internet that I feel a little overwhelmed. Caleb is going to be way ahead of his Kindergarten class, good job mom! :)
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