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My blog is designed to assist parents of children who are about to enter preschool or kindergarten. My blog outlines fun, low-cost ways to educate your child from home.
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Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Outdoor T-Ball Fun
My daughter is in full day pre-k at the elementary school. I mistakenly assumed she couldn’t pay t-ball this year because she wasn’t in kindergarten. Apparently, I was wrong and a couple kids in her class are playing. She was quite devastated ...
Preschool Craft Projects for the Holidays
With Christmas quickly approaching, you may want to tailor your preschool craft projects to the holidays. Over the next few days, I will be highlighting a few craft projects that my daughter and I did together. They all have Christmas themes.So, wh...
Doing Craft Projects 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
Another Preschool Blog
I can’t recall if I have posted this information before here or not, so I will do again. I run another blog that focuses on preschool activities. There is a large list of fun and educational preschool activities that you can do with your toddler ...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Language Development
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
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
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
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
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...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Fun Preschool Activity
If you have been teaching your child how to write at home, this is a fun preschool activity that you may enjoy. Have your child write a short letter to a family member. We have family that lives across the country, so we mailed the letter out.Perso...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Dressing One’s Self
My past few posts have highlighted items from the list of my local school’s kindergarten curriculum. Dressing one’s self is listed. This is important for going to the bathroom, as well as keeping shoes properly tied. If your child is between t...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool and Kindergarten: Computer Skills
I was surprised to see computer skills listed on the curriculum list for my local elementary school’s kindergarten program. Although my daughter already knows how to use a computer, I was just surprised to see it there. I don’t think that I lear...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Social Skills
In my last post, I mentioned how you may want to get a copy of your local elementary school’s curriculum for kindergarten. This can give you an idea of what your child should be learning or at least preparing for at home. For this post, we will f...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: Kindergarten Curriculum
Whether you are interested in preparing your child for preschool or kindergarten or if you are looking to implement your own homeschool preschool program, you may be curious as to what you should be teaching your child. To get an idea, you may want ...
Personal Post: Big Day!
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: Related Article
Here is an article that I wrote about birthday party games for toddlers and preschoolers. They may help to give you a few ideas if you are in charge of planning a party for this age group.Article: Toddler Birthday Party Games...
Why We Love the Leapfrog Learning DVDs
Are you a parent who is interested in educating your child at home? If you are, you may want to take the time to examine the LeapFrog Learning DVDs. All videos in this set are educational in more ways than most parents can imagine.For Christmas 200...
Preparing Your Child for Preschool: St. Patrick’s Day Preschool Craft Project – St. Patrick’s Day Hats
Supplies You Will Need:Construction Paper (Green and White)ScissorsMarkers or CrayonsGlue StickTapePipe Cleaners for CraftsDirections:Cut out two strips of paper, which will wrap around your child’s head. Folding a piece of construction paper the ...
