Home Preschooling?

Question

Anyone have some god suggestions for me to help my children learn numbers, alphabet, reading, and writing? They are ages 2 in Feb. and 3.

I stay at home with them all day and next year my 3 year old will start preschool. He can count pretty well,but needs help with his letters.

Anyne know of good techniques, products, or sites that can be used for home preschooling?

Answer 1

I do pretty much the same thing with the 5 ,4 and 2 1/2 year old i take care of. I am at their house all day 5 sometimes 6 days a week while their mom works. We use many different methods. My best advice is to make learning fun. We use many different techniques and different sites. The 2 1/2 year old can count to 10 can pick out certain letters (mostly those in her name). We do special days/weeks where we work on a specific letter, color, or shape. one day we will only eat things that begin with a certain letter. or well make something special that begins with what ever letter we are working on. Yesterday we were doing the letter B and we made bread bears. When we did A we did apple prints and apple sauce.

Sites we use most often are
DLTK KIDS
http://www.dltk-kids.com/

the "teaching" page
http://www.dltk-teach.com/

first school is another good site
http://www.first-school.ws/

Enchanted learning is an OKAY site but not my fav.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/toddler/

Crayola is another good site
http://www.crayola.com/educators/lessons/index.cfm?mt=lessonplans


Most stores also have books you can buy. i believe even the local library should have at least a book about preschool curriculum

The kids I have Love to cook. Just play into whatever your kids like to do. Young kids are constantly learning even if all you think they are doing is having fun. You may also want to set out specific times to do certain things. Like with us we eat breakfast, wantch a bit (maybe half an hour or so) of TV. then they have free play time while i set up for our project. which usually takes place around 9 or 9:30 AM. But be flexible at the same time. There are days when the kids don't want to do a certain project/learning activity. and thats fine we just do something else. Today i just have the 2 1/2 year old and its freezing and snowing so we can't go outside and we read a few books earlier and she is now playing with her dolls. I can not stress enough to keep it fun. If a child is having fun doing something they tend to want to do them again and again and again. I'd start out slowly introduce 1 letter a week. then do projects for that letter every day. They may not remember the letter next week. but we go on to another letter anyways. Every few weeks we do a review week. Where we go over the letters we have alredy covered. The kids seem to LOVE it. don't be afraid to skip over letters and go back to them. You do not have to go in order. you could go backwards if you wanted. The 5 year old can now read simple words/books with a bit of help.


Most preschools will help teach the kids letters, numbers, and all that as well. I uderstand wanting your kids to have a bit of a jump start.

Answer 2

Just keep doing what you are doing sounds like it is working ,my son just turned 5 and has had a teacher that comes every two weeks that works on things with him to get him ready for preschool we signed up through our school it is a program called parents as teachers it is wonderful when she comes he looks forward to it and has learned alot from it she started coming when he was around 1.5 to 2 years and before that she came for my older children .She helps him with all the basics like reading counting colors and much more then she also gives me advise on things that i can do to help make learning fun.

Answer 3

If you have a teacher supply store nearby (or even check Ebay or Wal-Mart), you can find TONS of stuff to help your child. One thing my almost 2 year old son loves is flash cards with pictures and words. He obviously can't read yet, but he CAN recognize pictures of things. You could even make these yourself by cutting out pics from magazines and pasting them on pieces of paper.

Look for music that has information about colors, numbers, body parts, etc. in the lyrics.

Also just getting them out a few times a week and exposing them to new things is a great teaching tool.

Answer 4

My daughter is about to turn 4. I started with her when she was 1 with flash cards. They really work. School Zone has alot of products like work books that come with cd-rom's. I have been using those to help with thinking skills (small, big, biggest) etc. Also she used Brainy Baby books to learn colors, alphabet, and shapes. She can also read a little so she's ahead.

Answer 5

my son is 2 and we got him puzzles with the numbers and the letters on them and thats helping him alot. there are a lot of books in walmart that can help also with the preschool activities

Answer 6

Practice, Practice and Practice! Really just repetitive teachings of letters and numbers are good. They have great kids videos too. I know a lot of people are against TV watching and such but the educational videos teach A LOT!

Answer 7

purely take her out into the international and communicate including her consistently. today, she is going to choose socialization skills. locate a playgroup, Mommy and me training or little ones music jointly training. clarify each thing in detail ( " Oh, do you be conscious that small, brown poultry ?, " do you want a purple apple, a eco-friendly apple or a yellow banana for snack ? " ) My eldest change into the same way. Aways including her nostril in a e book. She continues to be that way. She is likewise stronger in her schoolwork now. do not problem if she looks uninterested in her toys. both she's outgrown them or she needs to do something else for a replace.

Answer 8

There are a lot of helpful tools you can print off at DLTK-kids.com and first-school.ws such as flash card and trace sheets for letters. Also just practice A LOT.

Answer 9

http://www.starfall.com/
http://www.letteroftheweek.com/
http://www.educationalpress.org/educationalpress/
http://homeschooling.about.com/od/preschool/Preschool_Resources.htm

The library is a wonderful resource as well.