For myriad reasons that I won't bother going into here, we've finally decided to pull Peyton out of his Pre-K program. It simply wasn't the right fit for us and ultimately was causing far more stress than good. I've always been interested in homeschooling, so in light of recent issues with our public school here, we've decided to give it a go for the rest of the preschool year.
Since I figured my friends would get bored with our exploits pretty quickly and I didn't want to flood their feeds with pictures of our projects on Facebook, I staked out this little blog so we can share our adventures with family and interested friends.
This is just our homeschool experiment right now. I don't pretend to be an expert, and I don't know what we will ultimately decide for next year. Right now we're just enjoying the journey.
We've already had an outrageously fun time just making up activities as we go along. Peyton's constantly asking to do "learning activities" with me. Here's a little peek at what we've been up to in our days off of school the last few weeks. Since hubby is off work Monday and Tuesday, this is our "weekend." We have a big adventure planned today, then we'll start doing slightly more organized work on our "Monday" (otherwise known as Wednesday).
We can't wait to share the fun!
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| Color by number - I circled the numbers at the bottom in the correct color and he finished the rest. |
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| Trains are his favorite, so when I told him we were going to make a book about his favorite word, he instantly picked this. |
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| Our tree word book and a pipe cleaner tree with hole-punched leaves that he colored in fall colors. Since we live in Florida he insisted that a large number of leaves remain green. |
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| He LOVES this sorting pie. After colors, we did numbers where he counted out the right number of pieces to match what the pie said in each space. 100% on all activities. |
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| He loves making patterns and brought me the step stool to be the "stage" for his pattern making. |
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| Friday night we had homemade pizza followed by family movie night. Peyton made the pizza almost entirely by himself. (You can see Jack helping to pat the dough.) |
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| We watched a PBS show about unique animal friendships, then drew a picture about it. This is the cheetah and dog that were friends, with their zookeeper. Jack grabbed a blue crayon and colored the sky for us. I asked Peyton if he wanted to learn to spell "DOG" and he did it himself before I could help him. |
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| Working on his letters with this handy dry erase LeapFrog board. |
Wow, that is so great. I wish Simon were at this level. He's very far behind with pre-writing skills (holding a writing instrument correctly, coloring at all, making any letters on his own). He knows all his letter and numbers and spells things out but putting it on paper is such a struggle. Looks like you're doing great!
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