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Preschool Daily Schedules
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Preschool daily schedules for your homeschool! You may be wondering what a typical day might look like when you home school preschool...or how about some unique preschool ideas?I strongly believe that anything a preschooler needs to learn...can be taught by the parent at home. As with any child, having a daily schedule/routine in the home can help keep the child more calm and content. Having daily routines, mealtimes, nap times, learning times, and dinner around the same time every day, can really make your life easier and your preschooler more calm! Lets begin to see why and how...
5 Reasons For Preschool Daily Schedules
- Preschool Daily Schedules help to ensure the consistency that young children need to encourage all areas of their development.
- Children thrive in a well-ordered and organised environment.
- Offers children a sense of stability, and a feeling of warmth and love from their parents.
- Predictable Preschool Homeschool Scheduling helps your child to know what will happen next and when it will happen...this give them security.
- Learning by playing, exploring, questioning, and experimenting, all can happen in the home giving you as the parent the opportunity to teach character.
At one point in my life I had 4 children under four...essentially, I was running my own preschool...with my own children. :)The following is the Preschool Daily Schedule I came up with...Following this routine every day kept my life fairly sane! :0
Preschool Daily Schedules
7:30 - Dress children8:00 - Breakfast 8:30 - Teeth/Hair/Clean faces 8:30-9:30 - Clean up Breakfast
- Laundry - (load in, load out),
- Clean living room (vacuum, pick up toys)
- Clean Bedrooms
During this time, my children followed me around "helping" me. There is no greater way to teach your child..but by example. - I would have them wipe chairs, walls, and the table with their own rag.
- They would help me sort the laundry...Great way to teach colors! They would help me put the laundry in and and take the laundry out of the dryer.
- We dusted together with their own rags,
- Vacuum...I would give them each a vacuum attachment and they would "pretend to vacuum".
- Making beds and picking up toys together kept them busy and moving...and it helped me get my work done.
- As they clear the table or put away the blocks, children learn how to plan, organise, and work with others.
9:30-
- Preschool play time
- My shower and dressing time
- Clean bathroom
- I would put a gate up in the doorway of their room, they played with toys, and listened to music. I took a shower and got dressed.
10:30 - Learning timeTeaching a variety of subjects on the floor in our living room, made learning time fun and exciting.12:00 - Lunch 12:30 - Nap Every child laid down for a nap/rest...2:30 We folded laundry together and listened to music...then they played while I made supper.5:00 - Supper - All the children help with supper clean up...even if it was just wiping the chair legs.
6:00 - 7:00 - Clean up children's room
- Pyjamas/teeth/baths
- Bible reading and sing time.
7:00 - Bedtime/read in bed7:30 - Sleep
Homeschool Preschool Curriculum
Life skills
- Teeth, bed, cleaning, folding laundry, baking
- This can all be done in your "normal life routine". Your preschooler will learn as she follows you around the house.
- There is no better curriculum than imitating mommy.
Phonics
- Alphabet sounds, letter recondition, handwriting
- Coloring alphabet books and letters is an easy way to teach alphabet sounds.
- "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" - Great book to teach preschoolers a step by step phonics and how to blend sounds into words.
- Practice writing two numbers and two letters (these can be taken from the 100 Easy Lessons book above).
- Preschool Reading - cuddling together with books on the couch! I read many stories aloud. The children picked out the stories they liked when we went the local library. 30 minute before they went to bed, they would read silently.
Science
- Pledge of allegiance, calendar, weather, animals, senses, magnets, healthy habits, life cycles, simple experiments.
- Talk about the weather
- Go to the zoo
- Let them help you measure when you bake
- Help plant ,water, and weed garden.<.dd>
Social Studies
- Community helpers, holidays, famous Americans
- Make holidays special by reading books/watching videos/ about the history of the holiday.
- Create a special meal for the different holidays...ex. heart pancakes for Valentines Day.
- Visit your local fire station/police station to learn about community helpers.
Music
- Preschool Music
- Sing songs together, finger plays, nursery rhymes, and listen to good music.
Art
- Coloring, cutting, gluing
- Color alphabet letters with our free printable coloring books
Math
- Math- counting,shapes,classification
- Use blocks or legos... repeat patterns..blue, green, orange etc. .
- Sort silverware for shapes
- Sort laundry by color
- Color Numbers with our free printable coloring books
Bible
- Read a Bible story book
- Tell stories using flannel graph
- Go over the Sunday school papers together from church.
Put all of your materials in a box. Only get the box out during learning time. This creates anticipation for the children. Many times I remember saying, "Let's get all our chores done so we can have Learning Time"! Many precious memories were created during those learning times that will stay with my children forever. Creating and using preschool daily schedules can make a big difference in the running of a smooth home and sane home...even with preschoolers! Do you have Preschool Homeschool Schedules you would like to share? What is your homeschool day look like? Write about it here! More Great ideas on How to Homeschool Preschool!
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