Dylan still has this year and 2 more before he goes to all day kindergarten. I'm thinking about doing some sort of preschool next year for him, but this year he and I are just doing "Mommy School," which is really just playing with an academic twist. Not really structured and very informal. We focused on Red and Squares during September and are starting Orange and Circles in October. Each week we also do a new Capital Letter and Number. Some highlights:
You'd never see "naked painting" in a public school curriculum. :)
My bulletin board fridge (The only problem with making letters and shapes out of food - marshmellow square, pinto bean E, pretzel stick A, etc. - is he wants to eat them):
We made a few batches of red fruit snacks (Very simple. Just 1/3 cup water with 3 oz Jell-o powder and 2 packets of unflavored gelatin heated and poured into the mini ice cube tray and popped out with a toothpick after 20 minutes in the fridge. I've also done it using juice instead. Just search Pinterest for that recipe, or call me.):
And some orange ones. Just like the "Counting Bears" (Teddy Grahams) he has to tell me what color they are and count them before he gets to eat them:
We make shapes and letters and play with shaving cream:
After our lesson I let Dylan play around and make a huge mess in this video:
"Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" snack with 2 PB graham crackers as a tree trunk and 2 "coconuts" on each "leaf" for him to count:
2 "Pirate Ships":
Dylan has become interested in pirates, so we are dressing up as pirates for Halloween and he is having a Pirate Birthday Party a few weeks after that. More on that to come.
Colton's Mommy School focus is learning to sit up and "talk." I finally got him really laughing in this cute video. As always, excuse my blabbering:
Such cute students, no?
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