| Putting together your own preschool curriculum | | | | for your topics and focus is right on the calendar! |
| can be accomplished in a variety of ways. In the | | | | Use the various seasons and holidays to develop |
| broad sense there is the option of purchasing a | | | | broad theme type of learning material. At this age |
| homeschool preschool program from one of the | | | | the learning is much more fun for the child and |
| many preschool curriculum providers. | | | | easy for you if you keep the overall environment |
| Take on the approach of an everyday life | | | | colorful and relevant to what is going on in their |
| experience with your preschooler. This is | | | | life. |
| accomplished in a much less structured avenue. | | | | Outside the calendar or even in conjunction with |
| Lots of reading to your preschooler and exploring | | | | it, plan on and set up a few topical field trips |
| life and their world together emphasizing what | | | | around your community. Learning by experiencing |
| they enjoy doing while they are learning. If you're | | | | life at the preschool age is extremely important |
| a bit stuck in the middle with what you prefer | | | | and it is a great way to keep your preschooler's |
| being a bit more on the structured side of a | | | | attention. |
| packaged preschool curriculum but your budget is | | | | As you work with your calendar and do a little |
| definitely more in line with the latter, then why | | | | brainstorming as you check out each month and |
| not design your own preschool curriculum! | | | | the topical days or seasons they have to offer, |
| Start with a rough outline of what your learning | | | | begin making a rough draft or list(s) of all the |
| goals are for your preschooler. There are | | | | materials that will need to support your preschool |
| websites available with criteria that will help you | | | | educational goals that you have established. You |
| with evaluating your child's strengths and | | | | can refine the list later. |
| weaknesses. Just do a bit of searching on early | | | | As you begin to stockpile your material that has |
| childhood educational development evaluation | | | | come from your lists, don't forget to use any and |
| criteria and you'll find checklists that you can use. | | | | all of the items that you can around the house. |
| After you have determined your learning | | | | Save boxes, plastic jars, lids, cans, anything |
| objectives for your preschooler it is now time to | | | | colorful that you think you might use. Don't limit |
| search the web for some ideas for the upcoming | | | | your imagination. There are ideas galore out on |
| school year. At this young age a great tool to use | | | | the web! Use it. Have fun and enjoy the journey. |