Health Week

Posted by Lorelei Published in Sleep, creativity, food, health & safety, lessons

This week your child will learn about good health . We tend to take our health for granted, until we don’t have it any more. However, there are five basic steps you and your child can do right now, to help you maintain and respect your health. They are:

Get plenty of sleep
Eat [...]

Tags: activities, children, children's books, Early Childhood Education, encouraging creativity, five steps to better health, GORP, Health, home school, homeschool, nutrition, Preschool, toddlers

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May

May Flowers week

Posted by Lorelei Published in lessons

This week you and your child will continue to learn about spring as you focus on May Flowers.
Your child can learn:

spring is a season of the year that comes after winter
there are many changes in nature in the spring
(if you live where there is any) ice and snow melt
days are longer
temperatures are warmer
the ground thaws [...]

Tags: Early Childhood Education, home school, homeschool, lesson plans, lessons, May, May Flowers, Preschool, Preschoolers, teaching child at home, themes, toddlers

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Apr

Working with Wood

Posted by Lorelei Sieja Published in Play, creativity, education, health & safety

“Put a young man in a workshop, his hands will work to the benefit of his brain, and he will become a philosopher while thinking himself only a craftsman.” John Jacques Rousseau.
It was an evening in early winter, 1982. We were renting in Dodgeville, while my husband attended Michigan Technological University in Houghton. [...]

Tags: construction, early childhood, education, home school, homeschool, lesson plans, Preschool, Preschoolers, toddlers, toys, wood, wood working

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Mar

Sound

Posted by Lorelei Sieja Published in education, lessons

This week you and your child will focus on sounds. You’ll want to collect pairs of little film canisters – the plastic container with a lid that holds 35mm film. These may be harder to find now, as so many people own digital cameras. If you can find any other kind of small [...]

Tags: early childhood, education, five senses, hearing, home school, homeschool, lesson plans, lessons, Preschool, Preschoolers, sound, themes, toddlers