When you need a half hour or so to teach a child one on one here's away that I use to keep a younger(1-4) child occupied.
what you'll need is a bag or box(shoebox)
some kind of toys, candy (dollar store) or rocks, something the child loves playing with
tape
Put or wrap up the toy/candy/? in the bag or the shoes box.
Tape it up so that it will be hard for child to get open it for a while.
Now when it's time for you to teach your older child give the present to the younger child and let him/her try to tear it open! Usually by the time its opened you will be done with the instruction of the older child.
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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!)
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| I buy this at ikea |
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!
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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! |
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!
How I started homeschooling with young kids
When I first started homeschooling this is what we did. Since we couldn't afford to buy any curriculum.
The kids were 4, 2,1, and baby. I started with my oldest daughter,we did lots of art stuff like:
gluing, cutting with her own special scissors(she's left handed)
scribbling on large paper(we bought newspaper ends from the newspaper office in our town, they were very cheap and very large). The younger kids would love scribble on it also with large crayons.
I had over the years collected used and cheap crayons, melted them down and made bigger crayons. This site tells how to do that. All the kids loved scribbling on that large paper! I would then use the paper to wrap any presents we gave to people.
For my oldest as she got more sure of her coloring, I would draw squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, different shapes, letters, numbers, on the paper and tell her to color them in. More of a controlled coloring. This helped a lot for when she started handwriting.
I made puzzles out of boxes and hard stock paper for them to put together, here's a site that shows how. All the kids liked doing the puzzles but the one year old loved it! I made number puzzles, ABC puzzles, Animal, plant, color, puzzles. Some of the pictures I tore out of magazines or catalogs I would get free at the library.
to be continued!!!! Gotta go wash dishes!hahaha
The kids were 4, 2,1, and baby. I started with my oldest daughter,we did lots of art stuff like:
gluing, cutting with her own special scissors(she's left handed)
scribbling on large paper(we bought newspaper ends from the newspaper office in our town, they were very cheap and very large). The younger kids would love scribble on it also with large crayons.
I had over the years collected used and cheap crayons, melted them down and made bigger crayons. This site tells how to do that. All the kids loved scribbling on that large paper! I would then use the paper to wrap any presents we gave to people.
For my oldest as she got more sure of her coloring, I would draw squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, different shapes, letters, numbers, on the paper and tell her to color them in. More of a controlled coloring. This helped a lot for when she started handwriting.
I made puzzles out of boxes and hard stock paper for them to put together, here's a site that shows how. All the kids liked doing the puzzles but the one year old loved it! I made number puzzles, ABC puzzles, Animal, plant, color, puzzles. Some of the pictures I tore out of magazines or catalogs I would get free at the library.
to be continued!!!! Gotta go wash dishes!hahaha
Help for children 3-5 for reading readiness!
Here's some ideas I've tried with my kids and others to help them learn to read, or get ready for reading. These activities help the eyes get accustomed to seeing difference in color and shapes, like they would in learning phonics and letter or numbers.
1. Teach the child colors, use nature, or put up colored shapes on your walls.
2. Make some dot to dot pictures for the child to do, they are a lot of fun. The child can then color them in with the colors you call out! They will also learn some numbers! Also make a game by using little cars to go from number to number
3.Have the child copy a sequence of colors that you make, example : draw with a crayon three different colors on a piece of paper, next have the child pick out the right crayon colors and do the same thing. Use socks, blocks, marbles, buttons, etc.
4. Make a poster or scrap book of each color, let the child color pictures of that color or cut out pictures and place them on the poster or in the scrap book.
5. Draw the child some shapes like square, triangel, circle, rectangle etc. Let the child identify them with words or another object of the same shape.
6. Make some easy puzzles with different shapes and let the child put them together.
7. Once you've gone over different shapes with child ask him to visulize in his mind the shape and then draw it on a piece of paper, once the chilld can do this you can add color to the object your telling him to draw.
8. Put a bunch of colored objects on a tray or table and ask the child to pick out the colors you call out, this works for shapes also.
9. Hiding objects around the house while child is watching and then doing another type of lesson for 10 min. When done with that lesson ask the child to find what you have hidden. Also can have the child hide the objects. Do another type lesson and have him find the objects when done.
10. Placing 4 or 5 objects on a counter, ask child to look the other way while you take an object away. Then ask child what object is missing. You can make a game out of this and both of you can play it!.
1. Teach the child colors, use nature, or put up colored shapes on your walls.
2. Make some dot to dot pictures for the child to do, they are a lot of fun. The child can then color them in with the colors you call out! They will also learn some numbers! Also make a game by using little cars to go from number to number
3.Have the child copy a sequence of colors that you make, example : draw with a crayon three different colors on a piece of paper, next have the child pick out the right crayon colors and do the same thing. Use socks, blocks, marbles, buttons, etc.
4. Make a poster or scrap book of each color, let the child color pictures of that color or cut out pictures and place them on the poster or in the scrap book.
5. Draw the child some shapes like square, triangel, circle, rectangle etc. Let the child identify them with words or another object of the same shape.
6. Make some easy puzzles with different shapes and let the child put them together.
7. Once you've gone over different shapes with child ask him to visulize in his mind the shape and then draw it on a piece of paper, once the chilld can do this you can add color to the object your telling him to draw.
8. Put a bunch of colored objects on a tray or table and ask the child to pick out the colors you call out, this works for shapes also.
9. Hiding objects around the house while child is watching and then doing another type of lesson for 10 min. When done with that lesson ask the child to find what you have hidden. Also can have the child hide the objects. Do another type lesson and have him find the objects when done.
10. Placing 4 or 5 objects on a counter, ask child to look the other way while you take an object away. Then ask child what object is missing. You can make a game out of this and both of you can play it!.
What to Teach your Little Ones, before they sit down and do school!!!!
What to teach your little ones! Before they sit down and do school work!! (months-4)
Teaching children with joy will enable the kids to love learning!!! Have fun teaching them, don’t make it an effort! If they don’t want to do it, then stop and do something else.
When the kids are younger (months – 4), they have a very short attention span.
Here are some of the things I would do with my kids when they were younger; I guess you call them pre-schoolers.
We’d dance, sing, run, and jump! memorize
Go on nature hikes, count bugs, rock, flowers, berries, etc! They learned to count, add and subtract this way (no paper and pencil involved) and it was fun.
Be sure to always read to your child, they do enjoy it, and if they are able, have them tell you about the story you just read them.
Let them help you cook! My kids loved mixing and washing the dishes.
Play games with them!!! one of our favorite ones was the Concentration game(I call it that) I’d make up on recipe cards 2 matches of something, could be pictures, letters, colors, numbers, flowers, etc. and then we’d lay them out on the floor, and the kids would take turns finding matches. They sure loved that game! We continued to use this format even with our times tables as the kids grew older.
Just sitting a child down on a big piece of paper and giving them a crayon then letting them color and scribble is very helpful. Not forcing them to do anything, just letting them feel free to scribble. Eventually you can show them what the first letter of their name is and let them draw it, then the second etc.
Digging was other things the kids loved to do when young; they’d help me plant and dig my garden. Great for eye and hand coor
dination!! Then counting the worms we found! Making sure they don’t eat them of course!!Another good thing for hand eye coordination is using a play hammer and those bolt things, and when they get older getting them a real hammer and nails, I think that’s what made my sons handwriting so good, pounding all those nails in wood when he was younger. He could print or do cursive better than the girls.
You can teach them letters or numbers in sand or dirt, finger paint, etc!!
Coloring on large pieces of paper they loved, I’d draw a large circle or something big and they’d color inside it! Or outside it! Haha
Teaching them to write their name on a large piece of paper was fun. They loved to print big.
Letting them cut or tear pieces of paper up and using the cut up or torn paper for making one of those hanging Chinese fish things. Or just gluing the pieces of paper inside something I made out of hard stock.
Another thing I’d always taught the kids was about chores, all the kids had their own squirt bottles and rags, while they were younger all they’d get in the bottle was water. Everyday they would have their chores to do. Like cleaning the frig, they’d squirt it and wipe it down, or the washer, or some other area that could handle water.
Their chores for the day would be to clean their room, make their bed, and use their squirt bottle. Of course they weren’t the best at it, but they were learning that we all had chores to do everyday to keep a house running.
debbie
Some ideas i use for the younger kids
Some ideas i use for the younger kids
1. using giant piece of cardboard or poster board, draw roads for there little cars, can draw in mountains, trees , people and houses. Mine would play for hours with this.
2.stencils, my younger kids would love to put stencils on rolls of newsprint (big paper we would get from the newspaper)then they would color them in. we did themes sometimes, using the little dover stencils, I used them for wrapping paper.
3. Using colored chalk on black or dark colored construction paper was always fun.
4.also using chalk on a side walk, or basketball court,
5. lacing with buttons, using these for learning how to count was fun also, and sorting them into different colors.
6. catching a bug in a jar and letting the child watch the bug, close up!
7. also stringing fruit loops cereal.
8. playing balloon ball with balloons
9. trying to jump rope
10. laying a large piece of paper on the floor, and letting kids color on it.
11. laying the child on a long piece of newprint and drawing there body, then let them finish!
12. include the child in what your studying, make him up his own little book or math or coloring etc and he only does this workbook when your kids do.
13. being consistant with not letting the younger ones interrupt the older ones helped a lot, they need to know there bounderies
1. using giant piece of cardboard or poster board, draw roads for there little cars, can draw in mountains, trees , people and houses. Mine would play for hours with this.
2.stencils, my younger kids would love to put stencils on rolls of newsprint (big paper we would get from the newspaper)then they would color them in. we did themes sometimes, using the little dover stencils, I used them for wrapping paper.
3. Using colored chalk on black or dark colored construction paper was always fun.
4.also using chalk on a side walk, or basketball court,
5. lacing with buttons, using these for learning how to count was fun also, and sorting them into different colors.
6. catching a bug in a jar and letting the child watch the bug, close up!
7. also stringing fruit loops cereal.
8. playing balloon ball with balloons
9. trying to jump rope
10. laying a large piece of paper on the floor, and letting kids color on it.
11. laying the child on a long piece of newprint and drawing there body, then let them finish!
12. include the child in what your studying, make him up his own little book or math or coloring etc and he only does this workbook when your kids do.
13. being consistant with not letting the younger ones interrupt the older ones helped a lot, they need to know there bounderies
Teaching A Young Child
this is what i did with my kids when they were young and just starting to do some academic learning, its funny but it was just everyday stuff that went right along with chores, cooking, living!
i started oldest daughter when she was around 4 with some academics so our subjects we did(i guess you could say) were phonics, reading, handwriting, math, bible, science, music lots of art, play!
I bought a lesson plan booklet, (sometimes I use just notebooks also,)In my lesson plan booklet it has blank squares, so I labeled the top of the squares with the subjectsOn The side I put the days of the week( i needed to do this because i would forget what i wanted to do, so i write every thing down! but if we didnt get to it that day, that was fine theres always tomorrow.
Alot of the time the kids would just start doing something like looking at the globe or map on the wall and start asking questions so we'd be doing geograpy for a while! well one thing is out of geography you can teach all the school subjects!
well anyway heres a sample of what we would do dailyMonday(We started at 9am usually, after breakfast and morning chores)
Phonics- practice 3 letter sounds ab and cI will write each one on a recipe card so she can see them individuallyPractice the sounds of the 3 letters with herLet her form words if she canUse each letter and look around the room to see if we can find something that begins with that letter(I write it down in my notebook)Let her trace the letters with her fingers, (if there was steam on windows I would have her form them on her own on the window.) a chalk board works good also!
Reading- ( I made little booklets up with words and latter senctences for her to read using recipe cards.)Read the words or the sentences,I would also read her a short story and let her follow along with meThen we would read the little booklet again(sometimes throughout the day she would go over and over that booklet!)Ask her to tell me what the story was about and she'd tell someone else what she read just to anchor it in her mind. that seems to help them remember.
Handwriting-Teach her to write bou’(I wrote it on a large piece of paper so she could trace it,)On same paper have her write her name with crayons, doesn’t have to have lines, I just let her be creative about it.She would draw a picture using her name(usually she just wrote her name a bunch of different ways!)Also on large paper with her name I would have her write the letters we learned in phonics abc, separately and in words( when all the kids were older i taught them the italic method of writing)
Math-(I made up math problems for her)Count from 1 to ?How many fingers and toes ?How many pennieshow many rocks or bugs or...........................How many pieces of candy are here? And when I take 2 away now how many are left(Stuff like that) (if you want to use a math book rod and staff have some great ones that teach the same way.)
Bible-She would learn to memorize a bible verse a week, kids this age are very good at this, I would give her a prize at the end of the week.(on Friday )
Art-She’d do some kinda craft or drawing, whatever she wanted to. Sometimes I’d have certain things but others I just let her do what she wanted.
Science- run around out side looking for bugs, plants, digging in the dirt for worms for dh, picking berries, feeding the animals, collecting eggs, planting the garden, etc
music- we'd learn songs, the other kids all had an instument they learned, we only did practise for about 5 min. at a time. its worked! they can all play piano, guitar, manolin and violin.
i started oldest daughter when she was around 4 with some academics so our subjects we did(i guess you could say) were phonics, reading, handwriting, math, bible, science, music lots of art, play!
I bought a lesson plan booklet, (sometimes I use just notebooks also,)In my lesson plan booklet it has blank squares, so I labeled the top of the squares with the subjectsOn The side I put the days of the week( i needed to do this because i would forget what i wanted to do, so i write every thing down! but if we didnt get to it that day, that was fine theres always tomorrow.
Alot of the time the kids would just start doing something like looking at the globe or map on the wall and start asking questions so we'd be doing geograpy for a while! well one thing is out of geography you can teach all the school subjects!
well anyway heres a sample of what we would do dailyMonday(We started at 9am usually, after breakfast and morning chores)
Phonics- practice 3 letter sounds ab and cI will write each one on a recipe card so she can see them individuallyPractice the sounds of the 3 letters with herLet her form words if she canUse each letter and look around the room to see if we can find something that begins with that letter(I write it down in my notebook)Let her trace the letters with her fingers, (if there was steam on windows I would have her form them on her own on the window.) a chalk board works good also!
Reading- ( I made little booklets up with words and latter senctences for her to read using recipe cards.)Read the words or the sentences,I would also read her a short story and let her follow along with meThen we would read the little booklet again(sometimes throughout the day she would go over and over that booklet!)Ask her to tell me what the story was about and she'd tell someone else what she read just to anchor it in her mind. that seems to help them remember.
Handwriting-Teach her to write bou’(I wrote it on a large piece of paper so she could trace it,)On same paper have her write her name with crayons, doesn’t have to have lines, I just let her be creative about it.She would draw a picture using her name(usually she just wrote her name a bunch of different ways!)Also on large paper with her name I would have her write the letters we learned in phonics abc, separately and in words( when all the kids were older i taught them the italic method of writing)
Math-(I made up math problems for her)Count from 1 to ?How many fingers and toes ?How many pennieshow many rocks or bugs or...........................How many pieces of candy are here? And when I take 2 away now how many are left(Stuff like that) (if you want to use a math book rod and staff have some great ones that teach the same way.)
Bible-She would learn to memorize a bible verse a week, kids this age are very good at this, I would give her a prize at the end of the week.(on Friday )
Art-She’d do some kinda craft or drawing, whatever she wanted to. Sometimes I’d have certain things but others I just let her do what she wanted.
Science- run around out side looking for bugs, plants, digging in the dirt for worms for dh, picking berries, feeding the animals, collecting eggs, planting the garden, etc
music- we'd learn songs, the other kids all had an instument they learned, we only did practise for about 5 min. at a time. its worked! they can all play piano, guitar, manolin and violin.
How to Tell if Your Child is Ready to Read!
If you are in tune to your child you will be able to tell when he/she is ready to learn how to read. They have different ways of letting us know when the time comes.
1. Some of the kids learn the favorite books we read to them by heart and like to sit pretending to read them.
2.Some children ask us about words or letters. Whats that word say or whats that letter or how do you make that letter.
3.To see if the child is ready teach him/her to write or pronounce one or more sounds. Does he/she want to learn , seem interested in learning them? or does the child resist?
1. Some of the kids learn the favorite books we read to them by heart and like to sit pretending to read them.
2.Some children ask us about words or letters. Whats that word say or whats that letter or how do you make that letter.
3.To see if the child is ready teach him/her to write or pronounce one or more sounds. Does he/she want to learn , seem interested in learning them? or does the child resist?
Some ideas I use for the younger kids when I'm homeschooling the olders ones
Some ideas we use for the younger kids
1. using giant piece of cardboard or poster board, draw roads for there little cars, can draw in mountains, trees , people and houses. Mine would play for hours with this.
2.stencils, my younger kids would love to put stencils on rolls of newsprint (big paper we would get from the newspaper)then they would color them in. we did themes sometimes, using the little dover stencils, I used them for wrapping paper.
3. Using colored chalk on black or dark colored construction paper was always fun.
4.also using chalk on a side walk, or basketball court,
5. lacing with buttons, using these for learning how to count was fun also, and sorting them into different colors.
6. catching a bug in a jar and letting the child watch the bug, close up!
7. also stringing fruit loops cereal.
8. playing balloon ball with balloons
9. trying to jump rope
10. laying a large piece of paper on the floor, and letting kids color on it.
11. laying the child on a long piece of newprint and drawing there body, then let them finish!
1. using giant piece of cardboard or poster board, draw roads for there little cars, can draw in mountains, trees , people and houses. Mine would play for hours with this.
2.stencils, my younger kids would love to put stencils on rolls of newsprint (big paper we would get from the newspaper)then they would color them in. we did themes sometimes, using the little dover stencils, I used them for wrapping paper.
3. Using colored chalk on black or dark colored construction paper was always fun.
4.also using chalk on a side walk, or basketball court,
5. lacing with buttons, using these for learning how to count was fun also, and sorting them into different colors.
6. catching a bug in a jar and letting the child watch the bug, close up!
7. also stringing fruit loops cereal.
8. playing balloon ball with balloons
9. trying to jump rope
10. laying a large piece of paper on the floor, and letting kids color on it.
11. laying the child on a long piece of newprint and drawing there body, then let them finish!
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