When you have finished your preschool unit and are ready to move on, the biggest issue is: What to do with Unit Materials when the Unit is Finished So, here’s what I do with our preschool unit materials when we are finished. Lapbooks get stored for review and for showing to the grandparents until it is time to move up…
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Building a Preschool Unit: Pulling it all together
Yay! You have chosen a theme for your preschool unit, you have gathered lots of fun things from your selected resources, and you have figured out how to incorporate your theme into each (or most) subject you want to cover. Now it is time to pull your preschool unit together and get ready for a lot of learning fun! Here’s…
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Building a Preschool Unit: Covering Various Subjects
Covering Math in a Preschool Unit Counting from 0-10 is currently what we are working on, along with some simple addition and subtraction games. For our anatomy unit, I will be using Q-tips as “bone” manipulatives for our counting. We will play a “put in order” game with digestion cards I will be printing. We will be graphing the 5…
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Building a Preschool Unit: Resources
Building a Preschool Unit Day 2: Finding and Selecting Your Resources [maxbutton id=”1″] Today we are covering some of the resources we like to use for our unit studies. There are a lot of great resources online and several of them are free. When you build your own unit, the sky is the limit, especially when you incorporate a preschooler’s…
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5 Days of Building Preschool Unit Studies: Choosing a Theme
Building a unit study for preschoolers is a lot of fun and is something I really enjoy. With the right tools, you can create a unit to take you through 2-3 weeks of homeschool preschool. In this video, I’ll be covering how to choose a theme and the different elements you can choose to include in your preschool unit study….
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For His Own Glory Sign Language DVD Curriculum
When you have infants and toddlers one of the most frustrating things is not being able to communicate well with them. Especially if they want something in particular or they are hurting. ASL (American Sign Language) is such a valuable tool for this! We were doubly blessed when Mr. T was a toddler that we were already learning ASL together…
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The Spirit of Christmas Book and Handprint Tree Memory Craft
The Spirit of Christmas by Nancy Tillman is beautifully illustrated and wonderfully sweet book. The story is told in first person between The Spirit of Christmas and a parent. While the parent tries to figure out what’s missing, the Spirit of Christmas keeps suggesting lots of wonderful holiday activities and sights, then finally says “Remember, this all began with a…
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Gifts for the Homeschool Mom’s Heart
With Christmas just around the corner, here are a few ideas for gifts to warm the heart of a homeschool mom in your life. Every mom, homeschool or not, needs encouragement and heart snuggles. I’d love to hear some of your ideas, too! Great books for mom’s heart. And maybe a Starbucks card so she can have some coffee and…
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Teaching Please and Thank You to Toddlers with ASL
Saying please, thank you, I’m sorry and excuse me/may i be excused are staples for having a considerate toddler and little person. Around here, we call them “nice words”. We also have “nice voice”, “gentle hands” and a time out spot. 🙂 Life with toddlers is never boring and rarely quiet unless something is going on that probably should not…
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Hands Are For Helping Character Training and Incentive System
Our 10 Days of Teaching Toddler Manners is covering my Hands are for Helping system today. I wanted to come up with a character training system that I could use as an incentive system as well. And stickers just don’t work very well for Mr. T. He loves to play with them but are not much of a motivator. I…
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