If you have a preschooler, do you do scheduled  learning activities with them? Since I started homeschooling my oldest in Kindergarten, I felt that I needed to do something structured with my three year old too. Enter these wonderful, free websites full of preschool material: First School, Kids Learning Station and All Kids Network. They have helped me create a weekly lesson plan for my three year old daughter that takes a few minutes to prepare and provides wonderful learning opportunities for her. Did I mentioned it’s all FREE?

Here’s the plan each week with her. She works for about 15 minutes, or so, each morning on her daily activities. It’s enough to help her start learning the basic concepts but not too long to where she gets bored.

Aside from the activities I have planned specifically for her, she also partakes in our Morning Circle/ Bible story/ Weekly memory verse time and does all of the crafts along with my Kindergartner. If we do a science project she usually does it with us too. When she’s not doing her work she’s playing on the floor with her favorite little toys while my oldest daughter does her work. My three year old is extremely laid back and easily entertained!

Monday: Color the letter of the week. Color the number of the week.

The letter worksheets I use are from First Preschool and Kids Learning Station. I also use the Christian themed alphabet coloring pages  from First Preschool as well.

The  number coloring pages I use are from Kids Learning Station.com.

Tuesday: Letter and number search. I make my own. I just write a bunch of different letters and numbers on a blank sheet of paper and Maddy has to find the numbers and letters of the week and circle them.

Wednesday: Alphabet Mini Book. Counting activity and worksheet. I love these from Kids Learning Station. com. I also like these themed counting worksheets and these cute counting practice worksheets from Kids Learning Station. com as well.

I love, love, love these alphabet mini books. They are so cute and my daughter loves doing them!

Thursday: Trace the letter of the week. Trace the number of the week. Both of these tracing worksheets I get from Kids Learning Station.com.

Friday: I change things up a bit on Friday. We’ll do a little letter and number of the week review but I’ll take some different activities from these sights and do those. Like matching games, Same/Different worksheets , fine motor activities or patterning. We may do puzzles or another art project.

What kinds of activities do you do with your preschoolers?

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Oh, and in case I didn’t explain the Kindergarten thing well here’s the deal. Since she will technically be too young for Kinder next year she will be doing it for two years. If we stay with this school she will do their Kindergarten program next school year. She’ll be almost five. That seems so weird to me!!  And if we decide to stay for another year she would do a more advanced version of their Kinder program the following year. They told us that most of the kids go  into first grade already knowing half of the stuff the public school is teaching them at that level. So we have the option of sending her to the Faulkner Kindergarten program for two years OR sending her there one year and then to our public Kinder program when she is almost six. We’ll cross that path when we get there. I”m not sure yet what we will do. It would be easier to send her to our public program in two years since it’s right down the road from us and is longer hours. So, we’ll see!

Here are some pictures of her work…

The front of her letter “C” worksheet

The back. She had to  circle all the words that started with “C” and color all the pictures that started with the letter “C”. I thought it was funny that she also colored the hand. They get stickers on their papers when they complete their work. So cute!

The teachers sent home these laminated name strips for the kids to practice writing their names at home. They are expected to know how to write their first name by the end of the school year. Their last name is optional. The laminate works like a dry erase board so the kids trace their names with dry erase markers and then we can wipe it off for repeated use. Apparently, I’ve been teaching the Katelyn the wrong way to write her name. Which, was the right way when I was teaching preschool.

I’ve taught Katelyn how to write her name in all upper case since she hadn’t learning lower case letters yet. We had always been told to teach the younger children this way to write to promote consistency and for them to be exposed to the upper case letters all the time to help in letter recognition. Apparently,these teachers and Kindergarten teachers hate this. Because they have to teach the children to write their names all over again the right way. With only the first letter of their name in upper case. Excuuuse me. I won’t be making that mistake again with Madelyn.

This is some of her art work. She painted, cut this out and glued it all herself. It thought she did pretty good with the cutting!

This was her homework! Apparently, many of the k ids with older siblings were asking for homework so they could do it while their older brothers and sisters were doing theirs. So the teachers made up some homework for the kids to do each week. They said it’s optional and that they barely look at it when it’s brought back to school. They just put a sticker on it and tell the children how wonderful they did and hang it on the wall. Katelyn wanted to do this homework but if there is ever a time when she doesn’t want to do it I won’t make her. Since this was Fire Prevention Week they learned a lot about fire safety. So Katelyn had to draw our family meeting spot if our house were to ever catch fire and we were separated trying to escape from our burning house. I told her it would be our detached garage so that’s what she drew. I guess those lines are our garage door??

I created this little corner in our playroom for showing off her school work and for school, dance and awana calendars and notes. I also have a large children’s school calendar to help the girls learn counting, the days of the week, the months of the year and time concepts like “yesterday was”, today is” and” tomorrow will be”. I also have special squares I put on there so Katelyn can see when special events are coming. As you can see by the date I haven’t done anything on the calendar since September 24th!

We hung this neat plastic chain link organizer to show case art work and school work. I got tired of taping stuff on the wall and my stainless steel fridge.

Here are some more videos I wanted to post. These videos are from the day of Katelyn’s birthday party. She got a microphone stand form her Nana and Papa and the girls were having a blast singing with it. Madelyn even put on a little show!

Here they were being silly with their party blowers. Madelyn was really cracking herself up!