Teach your preschoolers - Task 1.

Sounds like an awesome idea, and my daughter is doing something similar now at kindy  as she's 4 and a half

I have found this with children I look after if they have older brothers or sisters as they actually want to do homework too! Also the younger ones want to join in and understand the older childrens games like I spy or what's the time Mr Wolf etc. therefore they tend to learn faster. Great if they want to learn!

I have been teaching E at home - just as her curiosity leads us.  However it has resulted in her being able to do many things that others her age cannot do yet, or are just learning.  We started out doing it to improve her periods of concentration to a specific task chosen by me. 

I don't want her to be bored when she starts school, because that means she will be clever, bored and so disruptive (BIG GENERALISATION i realise).  Recently I started helping out in a reception class at the school she will attend in September.  I am having to re-evaluate what we do and broaden the things we do so that the concentration is maintained, but she does not get too far ahead. 

At present it is not necessary for me to home-school, and I believe that she will benefit from this particular school system that she will go to.  If I was home-schooling I would continue to just develop things as we are until we started the curriculum.  Getting ahead of her age would not matter as much. 

So if you are encouraging pre-school/toddlers at home and showing them how to type, write their names, add, subtract and other basics, then please please bear in mind how they will fit in when they get to school
Peace
EF.x 

 

That's a great idea what youre doing. It does make them feel important. I'm also teaching my daughter to write her name and she is 4 this month. It's just great to see them try so hard.

These little flashes of inspiration that come to parents are usually the best aren't they
Thankyou for sharing
xxx

The first one always paves the way for the rest, huh?  LOL.  The little ones always want to do what the bigger ones are doing so this is a great idea to promote learning. 

ideas like this i can use :) hehehe thanx my son is homeschooled in kindy and he is learning letters too hehehe this is a great idea... i alwase do my son's reading schoolwork with my 4 month old on my lap and although she cannot possibly write yet i could give her a crayon to scribble with while my son is doing his writing... (she has the inate ability to know when he is concentrating on somthing because that's her cue to blabber and yell for no real reason) so that just might make her feel like she's included and keep her quiet too.. groovi hehehe thanx :))

oh bent one......this is such a little task that gives a big result in the hearts of our little guys mwah hugs twisted sistah

The boys would have had so much fun and you managed to spend time with 3 of them instead of 1.....Homework can be a hard thing when it comes to the little ones because they kind of feel left out....You didn't do that and its great....
Mwah
Angie