While RocketGirl learns all sorts of important social skills, songs, faith messages and crafts at preschool she hasn’t been working on reading or writing at all yet. So I’ve been working with her at home on her reading skills.
We both love the BOB books. I wasn’t a fan when I first saw them at the bookstore. The package is kind of small and the books are very flimsy and poorly illustrated, but that is part of their charm for preschoolers. The books are not intimidating – short and easy to read with instructions for parents at the beginning of each book.
I was SO excited when I found out there was a blog ring dedicated to producing free printables to work with preschoolers as they graduate through these books. Continue reading
What we started with: Oy, the mistakes we made with RocketGirl! Not knowing anything about modern children’s shows, we started her with a claymation version of Curious George from the 1950s. Oh, how times have changed! In that version, the man with the yellow hat kidnaps George from the jungle, lets George smoke his pipe and is absent while George drugs himself with ether! Try explaining all that to a two year old… argh. Adding insult to injury (or actually vice versa) we let her watch Frog & Toad afterward since it was on the same DVD and she already loved the Easy Reader. In that video Frog bangs his head repeatedly on the wall and does all sorts of other dangerous things that RocketGirl then tried to mimic.
I wish I could say that I am extremely organized and that I keep a schedule (or curriculum, as it were) of activities to do with the kids, but I don’t.
