This last year I've been doing "Tot School" with Arthur. It's like a pre-preschool. It's very informal, it was meant to help him learn his lowercase letters, count to twenty, and learn fun themes through hands on activities. It has grown to so much more. This week, we started learning sight words. My almost three year old has been practicing tracing letters. He's so enthusiastic about learning, that I want to encourage his passion, to go with the flow. Something that I had originally only meant to do for a couple hours a week has turned into something we do at least an hour a day.
Next year, rather than sending him to preschool, we're keeping him home. I've been working hard at designing a curriculum to use with him. I've scoured Pinterest to gather materials and ideas, and I've put together a curriculum that I think will be fun and challenging for us both. I'm setting up our basement as a real classroom, and my goal is to send him to Catholic School four year old preschool reading.
That's where this blog comes in. I would love to share our journey here. Once a week posts about what we did that week in school. I will post where we found our materials, where we got our ideas, if they were not our own, and post about things that we created ourselves.
I'm really excited about this next journey in our lives, and I can't wait to share what we accomplish with all of you!
We are going to be doing some mini-Fairytale and book based themes and projects throughout the summer, so I'm going to start there. Preschool will go along with the school calendar! Blog posts will go up on Friday! Until then, here's my highlight from this week's Tot school!
