{ He says he is 3 & a 1/4 & a 1/2 }
He will be four in November ;)
Here is what a typical school day might look like on the test schedule below for Mr.. Preschool!
Last spring when we brought the kids home I realized I had a challenge in the preschool department of
“ ABBEY ACADEMY “
I had planned…( even last year ) to hold our Mr...Preschool back a year from kindergarten in traditional school- because he is our true” baby “ personality !!
Sweet and tender to the core happy as happy can be… but really emotional and super sensitive….these boys need to be home until they are emotionally ready to learn!
He is too old to nap and …a boy …so he likes to be busy !
I started hunting for things to keep him busy with- while I did “quiet school” in the afternoons with the three big kids- and I came across TWO of the most amazing life savers !!!
The first one is www.filefolderfun.com
Where I got a TON of free games for all my kiddos to use!
I made each of the kids “activity walls” with the games though rather than file folders b/c they can go to do the activities while I am helping an older kid move to their next work box.
Here is his preschool / kindergarten wall in our school room.
THE second was the most amazing preschool program created by a home school mom of four…. who thus knows the challenges of keeping younger kids occupied … She is Confessions of a Home Schooler
*** I have to say she NAILED it with her letter of the week Curricula!
This is the BEST preschool 3 &4 program to keep a home school sibling INDEPENDANTLY busy and ….. learning!Especially a boy !…well this boy!!
I cannot wait until the twins are trained for next September to sit and do these activities!
Her program is all hands on stuff for my boy who does not have the maturity to sit for long amounts of time at 3 yrs. old… but it keeps him busy and now he is ..6 months later- working at a kindergarten level……but still not ready to do work books.
So….for this year… I am hoping we can repeat the preschool program again for the fall - to keep him busy -with just the lower case letters this round (even though he knows them all )… and then we will look at starting him on The Bob Jones kindergarten things in the winter once he turns four…..I hope?!
Today is lower case A-a as in apple !
We start with HIS calendar wall on the little kids half of the school room…
( **Most of these printables on our walls are from the preschool “Letter of the Week “curricula.
The Calendar things I used here on his preschool wall are from another fantastic!… creative …saved me so much time by sharing her stuff …homeschooling mom of three @
TO START OUR PRESCHOOL TIME
…..We sing the favorite preschool songs for weather while we put it up…. { he insisted he heard thunder outside and that it needed two today….:)
Months of the year- singing away while we put it up
days of the week still singing….
100 days of school countdown ( no song for this one)
Weather graphing
Color of the day ….to match the A - a apples!
Learning about O’clock and the hands on a clock
Pointing at the words as he says them for his memory verse ( From www.biblestoryprintables.com )
..today…. tomorrow ….yesterday
Counting by two’s
(these are from bible story printables as well)
And filling in the numbers on his own calendar (mom helps do this still ) and he spells the letters of the month out loud as he points to them.
Then ! He starts his work boxes and the real fun = “ learning ” begins!
It looks like a lot but he moves pretty fast through these now !
He uses the www.suepatrickworkboxsystem.com as well, with numbered boxes ..…I put his work in the night before and when he is done a box he matches that completed boxes number to the chart on the side of his work box tower.
Number one bucket - is his full first middle and last name….He puts the letters in their proper order.
Then #2 is apple matching Aa’s
Size sorting
Puzzles
Counting the number of seeds and matching up the number
All while laying and rolling on the floor ( as boys love to do :)
Then onto laminated printing practice sheets…
And number ones
and alphabet ones
All with the theme of the day!
He looks soooo big in this one !
Then it’s onto fine motor skills with magnets sheets!! ( we have it on top of a cookie tin lid )
Big sister and mom made him button magnets one night last spring as a craft project
Then lacing cards
Number order
Patterns
His favorite!!!!! Bingo Dabbing the letter of the day!
Voila ! ART !
Usually the twins are waking up around now and we are moving onto buddy time at our house !
He listens to his big sister read her reader from her curricula www.bobjonesuniversitypress.com and looks for sight words in her reader that he knows.
“ hey mom I found “t-h-i-s ”
Then the two of them have some activity time together
here they are using huge push pins to poke the paper with in the shape of A a
Then they do the scavenger hunt of the day
ape- apple- ant -arithmetic- art and Miss Grade ones last minute addition ..she is soo smart -ark! Noah’s Ark
Then it is onto snipping and coloring
Two years in age makes a big difference :)
Then it is onto reading the book of the day!
From the book series “MY FIRST STEPS TO READING” by www.groilerbooks.com
With his biggest- big sis ! These two have such a special bond! They call themselves the “b.m.a.s” b/c their initials are the same:)
Then free time outside ….if it is nice ..( not today ! ) then dinner and special book time with mom while the twins have their bath……
Oh big surprise ~it’s the tickle monster book again by Josie Bissett!!! ( got it at Indigo books)
…OH boy ! I read this thing again… and again….and over again all in just one day! They ALL just love it!
Who wouldn’t with tickle gloves like that!
What a guy that MR.Preschool is!
We just love him so !!!
September 7th
Up it goes lowercase b …. as in butterfly for today …Oh how I love this Letter of the Week Preschool Program !
B magnet page with button magnets for fine motor skills
Size shaping large –medium- small butterflies
Upper case & lower case sorting cards
Patterns
Bb Puzzle of the day
Counting with clothes pegs
( JUST incase any of you noticed his shirt ? it is not the same one as yesterday !!!..we just have three of each shirt ..in each color -so they can all wear the same color in any given day ---some days it matters and there are tears over wanting to be the same as a particular brother …..other days they go independant –they really are like triplets :)
Bb lacing card
Upper case & lower case matching butterflies
Printing practice ..this ones is important ! =B
Number practice too !
Onto buddy time with big-little- sis …snipping
and gluing
TA - DA !
and coloring
Do ya see the theme here ?
Awwwww she color coordinated it !
C c ……. is for caterpillar
Today little big sister read him the letter of the day book.
Big number order caterpillar!
His magnet sheet for the day 
Patterns
Lacing
Clothes peg counting for fine motor skills
I had these in a plastic bag but he decided at some point he does not like that so he switched it up today …I love it ! OH SO NEAT !
Puzzle
Small medium large size sorting
Spelling
Numbers!
Then art ..shirts off today for the bingo dabbers!
Printing and number practice
I LOVE this Letter of the Week curricula sooo much!
( even though we do the letter of the day ! )
Around then a baby brother woke up …lots of hugs
( these two love each other soooo much !)
So then he supported a little bit of on the spot TOT time crafting !
They counted the dots …
All done !….what a face ! heheh
* Thursday * September 9th
D d is for Dinosaur !
Up goes d
During calendar time today we finally REMEMBERED ! TO FIND THE SONGS THAT GO WTH THE COLORS ! So today we sang the p.u.r.p.l.e. song
( which it seems HE memorized last year when Miss Gr. 1 was learning them ! )
We made 12 O ‘clock today
Put some numbers in order from 5 on
Big sis read the letter of the day book.
Made a d with magnets and did his other preschool curricula with it’s normal letter of the day activities ( to save me time each day i will only put up the things that are a bit different from those in a b & c….different from those I have shown you so far today was Dinosaur Charting.
I laminated it and he uses a dry eraser .
He counts how many dinosaurs per section and then puts a mark in a box.
Spelt d-i-n-o-s-a-u-r
Sorted upper and lower case d
Did D d printing practice
And number 4 printing
Then listened to the earphones and a new skip counting c.d that came in the mail today from Math- U –See…it is very serious!…Oh my word! he looks so much like my husband!!
Story Time! chicka 123 apple tree
Our book of the day was Chicka Chicka 123
We said our numbers with Mom as she read the story
Then we made our own Chicka Chicka 123 Apple Tree Craft !
Inspired by ~ stArt over @ amommy’sadventures –
I LOVE her ideas !
We used individual number stamps ..great practice for the double digits and practicing our new way of saying numbers from Math u See that we are just learning about !
Then it was time to do some very serious snipping again:)
We used apples from his” Letter of the Week Curricula”
Voila ! All done !
*Monday September 13*
E-e is up!
Big Sis is still waiting for her curricula so she did preschool today b/c we had a late start .
It is hard to see but they left the letters E e in our pillow from the poking page –oops ! :)
Mr. Preschool made a huge puzzle today too all by himself !
*September 16th *
It has been a bit of a wild week! Dad is away …the twins have a 48 hour flu bug …so biggest sister has been helping with preschool
The fevers started on Ff day ..so this is all I got pic’s of :)
I got Gg as it started but then big sis forgot to take pics of the rest:)
We were back on track today with Hh for hippo!
Magnet Sheet
Cut & Paste..so cute!
Printing sheets
Lacing
Coloring
Best Big Sis IN THE WORLD!
OK so after another week of recovering from the fevers that turned into weeks of no sleep for MOM and bronchitis for all the little boys kids we are back in gear !
{ { From September 17 to the 28th Ii–Jj–Kk–Ll were all done with Big sis while mom was busy taking care of the little boys.}}
I got a few shots of K and L in-between administering Tylenol- Gravol and asthma puffers to the twins to help them breathe our once premature bubble babies are literally a year behind in the building of their immune systems so I missed the days of I for inch worm and J for Jesus….. with doctors appointments.
BUT here is Kk for kite!
And Ll for lady bug!
*September 29th *
Today is M m for monkey !
The letter wall is getting full!
Up goes m
Concentration ! Concentration now begins…te he
…counting monkeys
His daily reading time with his M book and his big sis ~I love this picture ….one day I am sure he will tower over her…but he is so cute with his little dangling feet at her knees today:)
*October 5th*
Up goes Nn- n is for nest!
Upper and lower case letter sorting
Magnet page
Push pin page
Printing practice
Snipping sheets.
Oo is for Octopus
Pp
is for pumpkin..my little pumpkin was happy doing p and carving his little pumpkin too!
I know the hair! ..Awesome!
Before….
After !
Awwwwwwww ..this hair! thin and curly what do ya do with that!? xo
Ready set….
scoop!
All done!
Up goes Qq
Q for quilt
pattern matching
Rr is for rainbow
The wall is getting full!
Ss
I love Ss… for snowman
Color matching
Snowman sizing
Snowflake matching
Fine motor skills with little clothes pegs ..7
Tt for turtle
His motor skills are not there..BUT he read his first book this week!
I am letting him do two at a time now as the activities just repeat …(.and Uu is the same small and big)
W w is for watermelon
Good thing he is got A Big BOY DESK FOR HIS BIRTHDAY !…complete with a huge paper roll that attaches to the side to pull over the top =ing a never ending supply of coloring paper !
YIPPPEEEE!
I told him when his birthday came he could be done preschool { I had hoped we would get to Zz ~ phew ! }
AND here he is finishing up Zz at his new desk the day after his b-day.
NOW that all the letters are up on the wall… we can move them to the “tot room” and THAT means I can…..
******* Introduce!!!!!!!!!!! …….MR. Kindergarten !!!!
He can spell it and read it …NOW it is time to focus on printing it !…{his name}
He is so happy to be doing big boy workbooks!
Oh he is cute with his little pencil sharpener and pencil crayons !
And thus this ends the “ Mr. Preschool files” ! sob sob why can’t they stay little ???!!!!
HOW blessed I AM …to be able to treasure ALL these memories with him ! I wouldn't trade that for anything the world has to offer …HERE …are my treasures! xo
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