Preschool! Week A, day 1

Rather than pay for pre school, or go through the hassle of applying for financial assistance, I have decided to do my own at home pre school.  I have spent several weeks in prep work, going through my kids toys to see what they had and supplementing our learning activities with items from the dollar store. We started today (based on a more Montessori style as that is how my son learns the best) and it was a big success! Of course, my one year old wanted to participate too and I had many the proud mommy moment as you see our activities below!

We started off with A the alligator.  My son had fun reading the story again and shaking his fists like he was angry

 

Following the story, my son did finger painting to make the ants that stole the alligator's apple, I hade him say A, a, a every time he made a new ant

 

 

The Dry erase bored I got from the dollar store

 

 This helped him see the shape of the letter as he tried to make it by himself

Since we read the story about A the alligator, we thought we would make an alligator out of the letter A!

My daughter enjoyed the alligator stickers we had so she could participate as well

 My son placed his alligator stickers and practiced writing A, I was very impressed how quickly he was able to do this.  Not bad for a 3 year old!

Last, but not least, we had our Alligator eat apples.  The kids had a blast and I was impressed with what they retained. :) Looking forward to tomorrow's A activities! If anyone in my area is interested in joining us, you are welcome.  Just contact me!