I am looking to start prepping my children for school, and life in general, and wanted to know if there were any home school curriculms that anyone would recommend?
I am looking for a curriculm for my 21 month old and 3 year old that we can work on at home a couple of days a week, and has interesting ideas on how to make learning fun and interactive. Also, where do you purchase the recommended curriculm?
Hello!
Well, that depends!
Are you looking for something secular or religious?
As far as Christian curricula goes, for that age, I love the Rod and Staff workbooks - available through rodandstaff.info.
HomeschoolReviews.com is great for checking out everything - the options are truly endless!
Also, check out a post on my blog for tons of learning resources.
http://www.homesteadblogger.com/thrive/152740/
Good luck! :-)
Abeka it is the best! I dont homeschool but we used that at the learning center I ran. It is voted the best as well. It is Christian based you but you can opt out of the bible stuff but we had children that were Jewish and Muslim and the parents still loved it. Our 4 yos were reading site words and doing addition!
I just started preschool with my 3 year old daughter and 2 year old niece and we are using letteroftheweek.com prep curriculum so far the girls seem to love it just adjust it to what fits you.
Hi! We use Sing Spell Read and Write for our language arts program and Math U See for our math program. I am a huge fan of both! I am still looking for a great science program and right now I am teaching geography and history with supplemental worksheets and books from the library.
I purchased the Math U See curriculum from it's website and the Sing Spell kit was purchased through Amazon. We decided to buy the preschool through 1st grade kit and it was well worth the expense!
Good luck to you!
I am in my 7th year of home schooling, and I also ran my own preschool for 2 years. For my 3-yr class, which included my youngest child, I used Funshine Express Fireflies. It is a wonderful program, and the kids all loved it. It is for ages 2-5. Check it out at www.funshineexpress.com. You can order a sample kit to check out.
You can buy either the monthly kits, which I did, or just the monthly guide and teacher materials. I liked the kits, because everything came ready to go, all the worksheets, craft supplies, all set! But, I had several kids to work with and was home schooling my 2 boys also - so I needed the help! Having only 2, you could put the crafts together yourself and save a ton of money.
The parents of my preschool students loved the program too.
Most of all, have fun! The "circle time", when we taught the curriculum, was a small part of our class day. We sang songs, played games, read books, etc. and had a blast.
Good luck!
I have been referred to www.scholastic.com for ideas. I have also been to our local library where they have a parent/teacher section. There were many, many books on homeschooling for that age.
Best of luck!
Most of the curriculums start for Kinder and older. I know a lot of people like Sonlight, but you have a way to go. Some of us, at this age particularly, like prefer to go with the flow and let the child lead when possible. There will be plenty of time for "school". Day to day life presents soo many learning opportunities at this age. You might look at the "5 in a row" curriculum. It uses different children's books (almost all available at the library) and is fairly inexpensive. It has some really good ideas on how to structure the learning.
Also, I've found this to be a good info too:
http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/early.htm#miss
http://www.magicalchildhood.com/articles/4yo.htm (also has link to World Book curriculum)
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