Although we didn't enroll Hudson in preschool this year he is still having preschool- at home! I decided to try to do some 'structured' learning stuff with him a little bit each week. My main goal was to just spend more time with him one-on-one since he doesn't get so much of "me" anymore. Besides that I want to work with him on his number recognition and writing his letters and numbers. But after I started doing some researching online about how to go about it, I found all sorts of other stuff to throw in as well!
He loved his first week of school {This post is a little late-we actually just finished up his 3rd week.}. He was SO excited for Mommy to be his teacher and to do school at home. He did great the first day we did it and was excited to do all the different projects I had for him. It probably helped that our first letter of the week was "H" - a letter he knows well and has been able to write since he was pretty little.
Every day (that I remember or he reminds me) we do our calendar and say the Pledge of Allegiance. We are working on learning the days of the week (in order) and the months of the year, as well as the terms yesterday, today and tomorrow. He impressed me with the calendar because when I first put it up (a few days before) I pointed out to him that September 9 was Gigi's birthday and he remembered and wanted to put the magnet on Gigi's birthday as well as the 12th for that day!
We are also doing a weekly Bible verse. This week's was "Honor your Father and your Mother." He memorized it immediately (I think we might have done that one before awhile back.) and can still recite it if you ask him his "H" Bible verse.
I quickly discovered he loves any project that involves glue! So I make sure to do at least one of those types each week. This one was gluing a Hippo together.
Working on tracing the letters in his name. Learning to spell and write his name is one of the other important things I want to accomplish with him.
A puzzle I made for him to learn to spell his name. I really need to get a picture of just him, pretty close up, cause that will be easier to put together. This one of him and Tate was a little tricky because of the way I cut it, so if he had one with just his face he'd be able to do it better, I think.
One of the other things we did was go on a Hunt. He wanted to Hunt for dinosaur bones....
We discovered a bee Hive (ok, a wasp's nest, but since it was Letter H week....) so then we had to move our Hunt elsewhere...
Tate got in on the Hunt too and wore his Hat for letter H. My original plan was just to do stuff with Hudson while Tate was napping, one morning a week, but I discovered quickly that Hudson's attention span didn't last that long for all the stuff I had planned, so now we have been doing a little bit 3 mornings a week usually, or special stuff like the Hunt whenever we decide to do it...
More digging. Notice a stud finder is a very useful tool to have on a dinosaur hunt!
For lunch on his first day of school, we made a special pizza:
Just for him!
Our other special "H" project was to check out this House they are building in our neighborhood.
Hudson picked up these nails and made a letter H with them all by himself!
When we got home, he drew out some building plans in his journal for building his own House.
And then later, he built his own House out of scraps we picked up from the big House.
{Again, he really enjoyed the glue!}
Using his Hammer to build his House!
So our first week of school was a great success. Unfortunately, I can't say quite the same for the other 2 weeks so far. He isn't near as interested as he was the first week, but we're working on it. More about the next 2 weeks later {And I promise there won't be this many pictures
every week!}
