A day of "homeschooling" with preschoolers
Aug. 5th, 2009 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
entirelysonjaToday was jam-packed with preschool "homeschooling" activities (aka normal stuff people do with their preschool-aged children). In the morning, we made and played with play dough and went to the "twosies" program. That's sort of a typical library storytime, with a craft project added in and no more than 10 kids. The children's librarian runs it 3 or 4 times a year for a month on Wednesdays; I suppose this might be our last time through it.
In the afternoon, Erika and I made fish collages:
while Karl was napping. Erika is in this phase where she really likes to copy whatever I do with art projects.
This evening, Erika had her first piano lesson with dad, using the My First Piano Adventure book we got from Amazon. It seemed to go pretty well.
To keep Karl busy while they did that, I played Mighty Mind with him. I really wish that product didn't have such annoying marketing, because it's a great game! I actually recently ordered "Super Mind" from the same company, so we'd have two sets of tiles and some more advanced puzzles.
The only thing in there that I really think of as "homeschooling" is the piano lesson, because that's something we probably wouldn't have thought of doing at home if we hadn't decided to homeschool Erika next year.
In the afternoon, Erika and I made fish collages:
while Karl was napping. Erika is in this phase where she really likes to copy whatever I do with art projects.
This evening, Erika had her first piano lesson with dad, using the My First Piano Adventure book we got from Amazon. It seemed to go pretty well.
To keep Karl busy while they did that, I played Mighty Mind with him. I really wish that product didn't have such annoying marketing, because it's a great game! I actually recently ordered "Super Mind" from the same company, so we'd have two sets of tiles and some more advanced puzzles.
The only thing in there that I really think of as "homeschooling" is the piano lesson, because that's something we probably wouldn't have thought of doing at home if we hadn't decided to homeschool Erika next year.