Teaching preschool, kindergarten and younger!

Teaching preschool, kindergarten and younger!

You don’t have to buy a curriculum to teach your preschool-kindergartners, use what you have at home
There’s letter of the week, and there’s starfall.com

You can read to them, teach them songs, dance with them, play, read poems to them, teach and show them that learning is fun!! enjoyable!

Do arts and crafts with them (I did this with my kids at 4 and 5 they learned so much, and that’s all we did! Read and arts and crafts!)

I buy this at ikea

Handwriting- let the kids paint on large paper, paint pictures, color, draw large letters of theirs names and let them paint them! Let them use a stick and write in the dirt, in the sand, etc
Phonics- (if they are ready, don’t force them!) do the sites above, refrig magnets letter on a metal cookie sheet, teach her the sounds of her name if it’s easy! Using index cards start with simple letters, write d on one card a on another and d on another one, m, o, same way! Just simple stuff at first, put ABC's on the wall, when the kids learn a sound look for items in the house that start with it,etc but make sure they want to learn to read and don’t force it. When they read their first word make a big deal out of it! Be encouraging!

1,2,3,4

math- count bugs, buttons, silverware, socks, rocks, let them see that each item has a number(that will help the kids later in math)  Show subtraction  by gathering 2 rocks and take 1 away and now there’s 1 left! simple things, put numbers on the wall, colors,  as they start to learn counting, gather items together found in house or outside and let them count them.

Science- nature walks(even if you don’t have a yard, take a walk on the sidewalk)!! bring a drawing pad, and crayons, look for bugs, animals leaves, rocks to draw and talk about , and when you get home look them up on Internet and check out some library books, let the kids dig holes, teach them to feed your animal, look for birds, watch the clouds, look at the stars at night,

Map of the hood!

History- talk about your family with the kids, draw them a simple map of where you live, then follow it by walking!

well those are some ideas that I did with my kids, and it didn’t cost hardly anything, so you don’t need a curriculum to teach your kids!

All the above only takes about an hour or 2 a day and that’s all they need, since its                                                                        one on one!

More ideas to teach our young kids!!

More ideas to teach our young kids!!
These games and crafts are fun to play with the younger kids and will keep them busy while you teach another child. Of course you’ll have to have some one playing with the child and helping him/her. I have one of the older kids do this if I need to help another child. I used these games and crafts on my kids.

Matching ABC game!
Make a matching alphabet game! Make out of recipe cards, print small case letters and upper case letters on the cards. If you can see through the backs of card just color with a crayon. Now mix up the cards and lay them face down 5 across and 5 down or anyway you want, then have child and you take turns turning over and matching uppercases with lower case letters !! Be sure to have the child say the letters! Give a prize at the end of game!

What letter is in the bag game!!
Fill a bag with different things that start with sounds you want to teach your child. Things like ball, book, pin, doll, car, rock, apple etc. now show the child all the items in the bag, put them back in the bag. Next tell the child to find something in the bag that starts with an A in the bag and ask the child what sound(s) the A makes. Let the child reach in and try to find the Apple by touching it only, not by seeing. ( if the child doesn’t know the sounds tell him/her)

Counting around the house!
Find a bunch of stuff you can put in a bag and count! Like buttons, rocks, pins, pencils, spoons, paper clips, erasers, etc. then let child dump bag out on tray or table and count how many objects of each there is. This is good for younger children especially, helps them put a number with objects.

ABC Bingo!
Make your own bingo cards with construction paper. Write the ABC’s on it like in a bingo game. Use upper case and lower case letter also can mix in numbers! Learn two things in one game! Now to play the game call out the letter or number and the child can put a marker on the letter or number you call. When the child calls out bingo you can give the kids a prize! This also works with states and capitals or times tables.

Tissue paper letters
Using a large poster board draw a letter on the board and let the child tear up tissue paper and decorate the letter. Also can use finger paints to paint a letter on the poster board! Nice and messy!

Counting Book!
This is fun, make a counting book together. Buy one of those blank books at the dollar store or make your own with construction paper stapling the pages together or lacing them. On each page have the child trace or print a number. Now have the child draw that many items on the page! Also fun to find items and glue them on the page. These can be make of material also, just use hot glue. Also if you have a large family you can use pictures of the family to use as objects to glue on the pages! Also can do this with the ABCs!

A B C collage!
Buy a large piece of poster board(1$ at dollar store) and look through magazines, pictures, newspapers, etc for letters that begin with a,b,c,d,etc. make it a month long project! By looking for a letter a day and then paste them on the poster board with the letter under it! Hang it on the wall so everyone can see it. Also works with newsprint.