Recent Posts Tagged With 'preparing for kindergarten'

• Doing Craft Projects with Leaves

  Posted on Friday October 3rd, 2008 at 10:37 in preschool activities, preschool fun, preschool crafts, preschool craft projects, preparing for preschool, preparing for kindergarten, craft ideas for kids, preparing for prek, crafts with leaves

  Pretty soon, the leaves will start falling. In fact, they have already started to do so here. What does that mean? The perfect opportunities for preschool craft projects with leaves. So, take your child for a walk, gather some leaves, come home a...

• Preparing Your Child for Preschool: A Fun Preschool Activity

  Posted on Sunday August 3rd, 2008 at 19:03 in homeschool preschool, preparing your child for preschool, preschool fun, preparing for preschool, preschool learning, preschool games, preparing for kindergarten, preparing for pre-k

  Hat DayDo you have a lot of hats in your home? You may. If so, gather all of the hats in your home, including baseball caps, sun hats, rain hats, cowboy hats, or whatever else you may have. Next, have your family sit down and try each hat on. You...

• Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Teaching Them About Money – Part 4

  Posted on Tuesday July 8th, 2008 at 10:18 in preparing for preschool, preschool learning, kindergarten curriculum, preparing for kindergarten, preschool lesson plans, preparing for pre-k, preschool money, preschool educating

  Another great way to teach your child about money is by taking them shopping with you. If you pay for cash and if there isn’t a long line behind you, let your child pay the cashier.This is an important lesson to teach your child. The first time m...

• Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Teaching Them About Money – Part 3

  Posted on Monday July 7th, 2008 at 10:13 in preparing for preschool, preschool learning, kindergarten curriculum, preparing for kindergarten, preschool lesson plans, preparing for pre-k, preschool money, preschool educating

  In my last post, I outlined how giving your child a small amount of money (like .50 cents) for doing a small task can teach them about how money is earned. The next step involves teaching your child about how money is saved. This can be done with t...

• Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Teaching Them About Money – Part 2

  Posted on Sunday July 6th, 2008 at 10:10 in preparing for preschool, preschool learning, kindergarten curriculum, preparing for kindergarten, preschool lesson plans, preparing for pre-k, preschool money, preschool educating

  In addition to showing your child money, it is important to teach them valuable lessons about it. You can start with how money is earned. Many parents like giving their preschoolers a weekly allowance. Even if you don’t want to do so, reward you...

• Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Teaching Them About Money – Part 1

  Posted on Thursday July 3rd, 2008 at 23:08 in preparing for preschool, preschool learning, kindergarten curriculum, preparing for kindergarten, preschool lesson plans, preparing for pre-k, preschool money, preschool educating

  If you are interested in preparing your child for preschool or kindergarten at home, one lesson that you will want to teach your child is about money. The good news is all of the options that you have for doing so. For starters, show your child mon...

• Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Teaching Your Child Their Address and Phone Number

  Posted on Tuesday July 1st, 2008 at 20:57 in homeschool preschool, preschool education, preparing your child for preschool, preparing for preschool, preschool learning, preparing for kindergarten, preparing for pre-k

  This is definitely something that we should have started doing before, but since my daughter is preparing for pre-k this coming year, I thought it was important to really step up the process of getting her to remember her address.In the past few week...

• Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Related Article

  Posted on Saturday June 14th, 2008 at 13:32 in homeschool preschool, preparing your child for preschool, preparing for preschool, preschool learning, preschool signs, preparing for kindergarten, preschool tools, preschool supplies

  Here is a related article that I wrote. It is titled “Homeschool Preschool: Using Educational Signs to Your Advantage.”...

• Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Fun Preschool Craft Project / Activity

  Posted on Friday June 13th, 2008 at 13:28 in preparing your child for preschool, preschool fun, preschool crafts, preschool craft projects, preparing for preschool, preschool learning, preparing for kindergarten, easy crafts for kids

  An important part of preparing your child for preschool or kindergarten involves encouraging creativity. One way that you can do so is with the use of beads. Making a bracelet or necklace with your child is a fun preschool activity. It is also one...

• Free Coloring Pages from Playhouse Disney

  Posted on Thursday June 12th, 2008 at 20:26 in disney, homeschool preschool, preschool activities, free coloring pages, preschool fun, preparing for preschool, printable coloring pages, preparing for kindergarten, preschool coloring

  My daughter has always been a Dora the Explorer, Wonder Pets, and Diego fan. She still is, but her latest thing is the shows on Playhouse Disney. Her father turned it on one day and she doesn’t want to watch anything else now.If your child is a D...

• Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Free Potty Training DVD from Huggies

  Posted on Monday May 26th, 2008 at 21:26 in preparing your child for preschool, preparing for preschool, preparing for kindergarten, preparing for pre-k, preparing your child for pre-k, preparing your child for kindergaraten

  In my last post, I talked about how most preschools require children to be able to use the bathroom themselves. Since not all children are on the same schedule, you may still be working on getting your child to this point. If you are, this free ite...

• Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Potty Training

  Posted on Monday May 26th, 2008 at 21:24 in preparing your child for preschool, preparing for preschool, preparing for kindergarten, preparing for pre-k, preparing your child for pre-k, preparing your child for kindergarten

  Whether you are preparing your child for preschool or kindergarten, it is important that they are potty trained. Is your child?Although most children can go to the bathroom by themselves when they enter into preschool, some children need a little pu...

• A Trip to the Zoo

  Posted on Monday May 26th, 2008 at 21:06 in homeschool preschool, preschool activities, preparing your child for preschool, preschool fun, preparing for preschool, preschool learning, preschool field trip, preparing for kindergarten

  Yesterday, we took a trip to the zoo. It was a lot of fun. It made for a long day and my daughter was so tired for the ride home, but still more than worth it. Since we have made a lot of trips to the zoo, my daughter is very familiar with all of ...

• Preparing Your Child for Preschool: An Easy Way to Help Your Child with Their Name

  Posted on Monday May 12th, 2008 at 23:20 in preschool, learn to write, homeschool preschool, learn how to write, preparing your child for preschool, preparing for kindergarten, learn to read and write, write and learn

  Does your child already know how to recognize their name? If not, it is a task that you will want to start working with them on. Most kindergarten students are expected to at least recognize their name, as well as try to accurately spell it.Althoug...

• Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Language Development

  Posted on Sunday May 11th, 2008 at 23:20 in homeschool preschool, preschool curriculum, preparing your child for preschool, preparing for preschool, preschool learning, kindergarten curriculum, preparing for kindergarten

  If you have been reading my last few posts, you may know that I am going over the kindergarten curriculum for my local elementary school. I am doing so to help answer that question of “what should I be teaching my child at home.”Another section ...

• Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Large Muscle Development

  Posted on Saturday May 10th, 2008 at 12:51 in homeschool preschool, preschool curriculum, preparing your child for preschool, preparing for preschool, preschool learning, kindergarten curriculum, preparing for kindergarten

  In my last post, I highlighted how small muscle development is a section on the curriculum for my local school’s kindergarten program. Large muscle development is another. If you are looking for ways to prepare your child for preschool or kinderg...

• Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Small Muscle Development

  Posted on Friday May 9th, 2008 at 12:46 in homeschool preschool, preschool curriculum, preparing your child for preschool, preparing for preschool, preschool learning, kindergarten curriculum, preparing for kindergarten

  On the website for my local elementary school, they have a page that is devoted to what children will learn in kindergarten. This is known as their kindergarten curriculum. Listed on that website is small muscle development. At first glance, small...

• Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Kindergarten Curriculum

  Posted on Thursday May 8th, 2008 at 21:43 in homeschool preschool, preschool curriculum, preparing your child for preschool, preparing for preschool, preschool learning, kindergarten curriculum, preparing for kindergarten

  A while ago, I was reviewing a few points that were highlighted on the kindergarten curriculum for my local school. I was doing so to showcase ways that you can not only prepare your child for preschool at home, but kindergarten as well. I plan to ...

• Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Fun Preschool Craft Project

  Posted on Friday May 2nd, 2008 at 21:07 in crafts for kids, preparing your child for preschool, preschool fun, preparing for preschool, preschool craft project, preparing for kindergarten, easy preschool craft projects

  If you are looking for a fun preschool craft project to do with your child, you may want to make your own paper bag puppets. The good news about doing so is that you have so many options.As you can see (lol hopefully if you can tell) we made a few p...

• Personal Post: Big Day!

  Posted on Friday April 25th, 2008 at 11:23 in preparing for preschool, preparing for kindergarten, preparing for pre-k

  Today we got the papers to get my daughter registered for Pre-K. This is a bid day for us. Unfortunately, our school district is small and only has a limited number of spots. I really hope that my daughter gets in. If she doesn’t, we intend to ...

• Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Free Preschool Worksheets

  Posted on Monday February 11th, 2008 at 06:39 in free worksheets, preparing your child for preschool, preparing for preschool, free preschool worksheets, preschool worksheets, preschool printables, preparing for kindergarten, kindergarten worksheets

  If you have visited my blog before you may also know that I run a website that works in conjunction with this blog. On my website, I have free preschool worksheets posted. I am in the process of adding new preschool worksheets and reformatting the ...