No need to stress over creating your own homeschool preschool schedule. This simple schedule is made for you and easy to do even if you have little ones.
I recently wrote about our Learning Activity of the Day. Around the time McKenna was born, we started a different curriculum than this Learning Activity of the Day.
Our Learning Activity of the Day plan was something I made up based on what I knew at the time.
One day, someone (I can’t remember who! Sorry!) mentioned to me this blog: http://www.ourpreschoolhomeschool.blogspot.com/. I visited the blog and thought it would be a great program to follow!
It is very similar to what I was already doing, except it adds a few elements. It adds in a theme of the week (cows, lighthouses, butterflies…). You also have a vocabulary word. It gives ideas for a gross motor skill activity as well as a fine motor skill activity. It also has you do a song each day that goes along with the theme along with a poem. You also learn a nursery rhyme each week.
Read: How To Do a Preschool Homeschool Homeschool
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Preschool From Home Weekly Schedule
Here is how it breaks down:
MONDAY: Theme Day
- Introduce theme
- Read story based on theme
- Share poem based on theme
- Sing song based on theme
- Gross motor skill activity based on theme
- Introduce vocabulary word
TUESDAY: Shape OR Color Day (it alternates each week)
- Review weekly theme
- Read story based on theme
- Share poem based on theme
- Sing song based on theme
- Review vocabulary word
SHAPE
- Collect 3-5 objects to share with your child that are the shape
- Walk through your home looking for the shape
- Cut a shape out of cookie dough, playdough, etc.
- Put a drawing of the shape on your poster
COLOR
- Color the shape on your learning poster
- Wear the color
- Walk through your home looking for color
- Add color to meals through food or plates, etc.
- Color
WEDNESDAY: Letter Day
- Color a print out of the letter of the day
- Trace the shape in pudding, finger paint, shallow tray filled with rice, etc.
- Find the letter in signs, cereal boxes, etc.
- Post the letter on your learning poster
- Review weekly theme
- Read story based on theme
- Share poem based on theme
- Sing song based on theme
- Review vocabulary word
- Review shape/color
THURSDAY: Number Day
- Give your child a snack in the number of the day (so if you are on number five, you eat five fish crackers or grapes, etc.)
- Show your child the number on the learning poster
- Add correct number of stickers to a counting book
- Create matching index cards for the number of the week
- Draw number of shapes (use shape of the week) for the number of the week
- Walk around the house counting objects in your home
- Review weekly theme
- Read story based on theme
- Share poem based on theme
- Sing song based on theme
- Review vocabulary word
- Review shape/color
- Review letter
FRIDAY: Review Day
- Introduce nursery rhyme. Repeat this often during the next week
- Read a book based on nursery rhyme if possible
- Review weekly theme
- Do fine motor skills activity for the week
- Read story based on theme
- Share poem based on theme
- Sing song based on theme
- Review vocabulary word
- Review shape/color
- Review letter
- Review number
- Play matching game with all numbers previously learned
BOOKLET
Create a booklet that has each thing you learn in it and add to it each week. I use a three ring binder and print out a page for each thing.
One page has the letter in uppercase and lowercase.
One page has the shape or color as well as the word written out (so it would say Oval followed by a picture of an oval). If it is the color, I write out the color and have several shapes in that color, but in various shades. So it would say “blue” and have a blue heart, circle, square, etc. I would have light blue, dark blue, blue, etc.
One page has the number in numerals, the number written out, followed by that number in the theme of the week. So for sheep week, it has the number 17, the word seventeen, followed by 17 sheep.
I then have a review page. At the top, it says the word for the them. I then have a picture that represents the them, along with the word and definition. I then have a picture of the vocabulary word, along with the word and definition. I then have a third picture that I think correlates with the theme.
MY ADDITIONS to the SCHEDULE
I have added some things to this. Here they are.
SATURDAY: Field Trip Day
I thought it would be fun to take field trips based on the theme. The first week is cow week, and we live near many dairy farms. It was also spring, so there were a lot of calves around the valley (calf was the vocabulary word).
If Saturday doesn’t work, you can do it in an evening during the week. During Horse week, we had a family reunion on the Saturday. We went for a field trip on Monday night instead. My parents own about 40 miniature horses a two full size horses. We went to their house and pet and fed the horses. We talked about our vocabulary words and had something “hands-on” to refer to all week.
Also, not all words will work for you. For example, during lighthouse week, there was no way we could visit a lighthouse without spending a lot of money 😉 We don’t live near them.
SUNDAY: Memorization Day
Our primary issued a challenge to memorize 13 scriptures over the summer. Brayden (four) is in the youngest class in the primary and they didn’t expect that age group to actually memorize, but I thought we would try it out. To my surprise (and the shock of his teachers) he did it! He was the youngest child to get all thirteen memorized. We practiced the scripture each day, but he passed them off at church on Sunday to his teachers. I have decided this is great and will continue it with other good scriptures.
Kaitlyn (two) also practiced along with us, though she didn’t memorize word for word. It doesn’t hurt, though 🙂 If you have a younger child who is your oldest, you might want to have your spouse model the process for your child. I am sure Kaitlyn understood what to do from watching Brayden.
Busy Books
I like to add more variety to the week. At the beginning of the week, I plan out a new, fun activity for each day. I typically get my ideas from my busy books (see Book Review: The Toddler’s Busy Book). For color day, I look for fun art activities. For number day, I look in the math section. You get the picture. There are 365 ideas in the Toddler’s Busy Book and 365 in Preschooler’s Busy Book. There is also The Siblings’ Busy Book, which has great reviews and I plan to purchase them.
Read: Over 51 Activities to do at Home With Preschoolers
Learning Activity Websites
You can find lots of fun activity ideas on a blog I contribute to Children’s Learning Activities. You can also get activity ideas and a full year of curriculum for homeschool preschool at Babes, Tots, and Kids (I helped write the book!).
You can also gather great ideas from the web. My friend, Manda, posted a bunch of great sites she has found on the last learning activities post:
- Science/Math
- Various Preschool, Homeschool, and Organization tips
- Preschool Activities
- Montessori Style Activities
- Literature-based Activities
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