Start of preschool

I have been doing off and on preschool stuff with my boys for a while. I've been wanting to get more structured and organized with it. I have found a lot of great resources on Pinterest. Last night (at about midnight) I found an AMAZING resource and have decided to make that my primary curriculum.

Oh wow, this site looks great! She goes all the way from Preschool through High School! Naturally I haven't had time to go through the entire site, but I skimmed through the Getting Ready 1 and Getting Ready 2 curriculum (Pre-K and K). So far I LOVE what I see.
Not wanting to dither, we got started right away this morning. The first part of Getting Ready 1 focuses on learning each letter of the alphabet. Dino already knows all of his letters and their sounds, but Jet Pack only knows a couple of them. So I figured I'd start Dino on Day 172 to start with (that is when they start learning some sight words and early reading). However, when I was doing the first lesson with Jet Pack this morning, Dino wanted to join in. So I figured it would be a good review and let them each go through the lesson. They loved it, and it was fun for me doing it with them. Then of course when I started Dino on his lesson, Jet Pack wanted to do it with him, so I let him join us. I'm not concerned with expecting him to remember it all, but if he likes doing it, and gets anything from it then GREAT.

Part of the lesson was just to look at some Google image search results for the letter A. We noticed one of the pictures was of an A made with 3 chili peppers. So I asked the boys if they wanted to build some letter A's as well. I let them choose what to make them out of. Dino immediately chose pencils and got to work. Jet Pack chose cars, but was having some difficulty with it. So I made one for him to look at and asked him to copy it. He still struggled a bit, but then saw his train tracks and decided to do that, and didn't need any further help with it. I decided to print out a letter A outline for him to fill up with his cars to make it easier for him and he liked it.

 My car A, Dino's pencil A, and Jet Pack's train track A.

Jet Pack filling up his letter A

All done!

 Coloring Abraham Alligator

 Looking at their first sight words.

I am not going to stick to this curriculum solely. That is one of the great things about homeschooling, you can do pretty much whatever works for you and your kid. This site focuses mostly on the alphabet and learning to read to begin with. I am going to be adding various other activities along the way. My kids love science experiments and we'll do plenty of those, and various other math and social studies activities as well. Dino already likes doing addition and subtraction.

If you are interested, I made a document with all of the letter outlines. I am laminating mine so they can be used for various things and reused. Click here for the free printable.