Pre-K Week 3: Tricks
Week 3 Day 1 went how I had originally imagined homeschool preschool would go. But I tricked him into it.
We were having a really wild morning with him and I had serious reservations about even attempting any school project with him. I lead with a project. I instructed him to get a hammer. Scissors. Paper. A Basket. Then he cut off cosmos, coreopsis, and bachelor buttons of all sizes and colors. I had him place them between two sheets of paper and wack away!
I fit in two entire science lessons from The Good and the Beautiful Little Hearts and Hands curriculum: Garden Flowers and Wildflowers. He watched both videos for those lessons, learning that vanilla is from an orchid flower pod! Which of course made us have to have vanilla yogurt.
After we were done, Clancy requested we do schoolwork. I felt like letting out a deep and long evil laugh. I snuck in more than what I wanted to do in one day and now he was ready for more!
That is when we broke out the Preschool Coursebook and finished Lesson 2 where we introduced letter Bb and worked on pencil grip and tracing lines. Rather than cutting, I had him trace since he uses scissors a lot and just did a cutting activity two days before at daycare.
I was amazed that he new the letter Bb and went on to do half of Lesson 3 with extreme focus. We analyzed a photo which included counting and colors. Then he did more tracing of lines.
After, I sent him outside to do ‘recess’. He definitely got his energy out running circles, biking, and swinging. I gave him a new activity to do about every two minutes but he stuck with it. He definitely struggles to follow requests that require him to be independent or involve feeling ‘sent away’. I am proud after today!
(As I finish up typing, he is back at the table doing more tracing. Even if it is by holding the marker between his teeth, haha.)
We learned about Hybrid flowers, so we went out and imagined what it would look like to cross-pollinate a bachelor button and cosmo!
We did not get around to another session of school work, but we did do a solid science effort and he did counting work at daycare.
This really is the challenge, how in the heck do we make the time and do the activities!? Our weeks are so busy and ever-changing, despite my efforts to set a schedule or rythm.
Next week will mark a month of homeschool preschool. I knew it would take time to get our footing; a month and I definitely can say we haven't found a groove at all. I'm glad I'm documenting or else this all would slip by without me realizing!
Clancy ended up completely shredding this Bb with a little cutting edge I thrifted for him, like into a million strips and bits! Classic.
