picking apples and pumpkins by amy hutchings

Don’t overthink it, there’s plenty of time to get to all the wonderful study ideas. Are they asking about why it rains? Do they like watching birds at the park? You could ask older children directly what they want to learn about. Observe your child’s play and questions they ask throughout the day. This year we studied apples, leaves, pumpkins, Halloween, harvest, Thanksgiving, snow, bears, winter holidays, Valentine’s Day, soup, space, spring holidays, rainbows, moving, and birds! I hope this overview will help guide you as well! Four Steps to Lesson Planning Your Own Study At Home Step 1: I choose studies based on my daughter’s interests as well as coordinating with seasons or holidays. Every activity has its own benefits and providing a variety will hit all the objectives over time. Not all at one time, or even all in one study and that’s okay. Each activity you choose will touch a few of these objectives. I am defining a preschool study as a well rounded exploration of a topic and using the topic to promote learning objectives such as literacy, math, science, social studies, art, language, gross motor (big body movements), fine motor (small hand and finger movements), dramatic play and social and emotional skills.

In this blog post I will share my process for lesson planning at home based on BOOKS and studies. I get it! Engaging your child at home can be intimidating, hard, and exhausting, but you don’t have to buy an expensive homeschool curriculum or fancy materials to keep your child engaged and having fun. Maybe you are deciding if you should keep your preschooler home another year. Maybe you’ve been wondering how to engage your child this summer. It has been mostly my daughter and me 24/7 for the past 15 months! Being a preschool teacher I had lesson plan ideas galore! However, sometimes we went through what should have been a week’s worth of lesson plans in one day (Insert toddler attitudes, exhaustion and burnout here, and that’s okay too)! Like many this past year due to the pandemic, we chose to keep our daughter home from what should have been her first year of preschool. I taught preschool for ten years until my Little Reader was born and I chose to stay home with her until she went to school. Your street addressyour city, state, zipyour phone numberyour website address)/FT/Tx/Ff 33558528/Kids>endobj35 0 obj(your street address your city, state, zip your phone number your website address)endobj36 0 obj(Your Library's Name )endobj37 0 objendobj38 0 objstream

Picking apples and pumpkins by amy hutchings