Here are some pictures of our homeschool areas with word walls and all kinds of things that I have promised to some of you for a while. We just have to do the best we can with our space in our homes. It doesn’t show everything but I could only post 4 photos, but anyway here is just a few views of our classroom for toddler and pre-k kids.
Mother of Faith,
That’s beautiful. I have picked up a couple of ideas from your pictures. I really liked the activity wall and the number wall concept. I will make sure I do those in my kid’s room soon. By the way, what is the art wall for? I guess any art work could also go into the activity board…Do give us some tips from time to time. I am not going to home school my baby, but would be interested in tips that help to make learning interesting. 
Thanks,
Questers.
it’s nice, there are so many things, here in Italy many people are still thinking that children before 4-5 don’t need anything only some toys,
my home now is full of educational things: maps, books, math tools and everyone is suprised that I’m using that with my 2 years old 
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It looks really good! Thank you for letting us inside your home!
My art wall is many things. I have placed the child’s art for display. i love the arts so I encourage my child to play and experiment with visual arts. I am starting an art appreciation curriculum posters for me little one to look at. there are tons of wonderful websites out there where I can print the biography and the photo and a sample of his work for free. I never had the opportunity to study the arts posters before i was in high school, so I am starting my little one early, of course we use famous painting printed prints that are faith based but I think you get the idea.
Also before we paint or draw or use watercolors I will have a sample up on our art wall for my children to see. Sort of a guide to go by.
That’s a great idea!
thank you for sharing your photos! I am really wanting to homeschool my children until they are 6 and would love to share what you are doing with you kids, if you don’t mind. How old are they?
I have a 1 year old and a 2 year old. They are 11 months apart.
Perfect! Mine are 2 and 9 months, so pretty close to yours. Would love to share what you teach them if you don’t mind.
Sure, I would be glad to share.
I use several websites for my curriculum, plus I purchased a faith based curriculum from http://www.daniellesplace.com/html/bible_lessons.html it is the ABC I Believe curriculum. Of course I can’t share that with you but I can share the things that I do. I plan on uploading everything to a website soon as well. For my 2 year old we have been working a long time. He is able to write some ABC’s, recite, read, and recognize his ABC’s and he is able to read small words like my, by. He is able to say complete sentences, and says thank you, and your welcome all the time. He can hold his pencil in the correct position using a large pencil. My 1 year old is on a slower pace however, but we are getting into our flashcard training.
The best site that I found that I enjoy is www.hubbardscupboard.org for faith based curriculum, also bright beaming is a good one as well.
I use www.carolscorner.us.com for all of my readers.
I use www.starfall.com and their printable readers, and worksheets.
I use www.kizclub.com for flashcards and wonderful worksheets and file folder games, and stuff for lapbooks.
I use www.abcteach.com, www.first-school.ws, and many more.
But I base everything on the curriculum from Danielles Place. However, I have created my own curriculum using a day by day devotional from Tyndale Publishers.
I have some listed on my website below, I think under Sunday School.
I am setting up a new website for my home education to share with others soon. I will post the site under my name so keep watching. I will post it when it is published.
2 year old scope;
Poster of the BV
Flashcards of the letter of the week (2 sets, 1 for the flaschards, 2 for coloring)
Handwriting sheet of the letter of the week
Little Reader of the letter of the week
Coloring page of the BV
Color Things Flashcards(flashcards of the color of the week or the shape of the week)
Action figure nursery rhyme file folder game of the week
Poster of the Nursery Rhyme of the week
Poster of the song of the week
Music for the song of the week
Poster of the # of the week
Counting activity of the # of the week (counting milk lids by placing them in a brown paper bag)
Maze of the week using the shape of the week
Craft of the week pertaining to the letter of the week (usually this involves glueing something on to the letter of the week)
courteous sentence poster of the week or conversation sentence of the week
little helper chart (this is a chart for being good like helping mommy sweep or vaccuum, he gets a sticker for helping mommy or daddy, or for being good and helping mommy with brother)
LR to reinforce the letter of the week, and conversational phrases.
starfall for phonic practice
1 year old scope:
some of the same things above but I add a lot of sensory objects for him to play with, and i make a lot of sensory file folder games. Also more music and rhymes. A lot of books! A lot of Music! A lot of flashcards! And A lot of Play time!
I hope this helps?
Another photo
hi mother of faith, i saw in one of your videos your son can write, and he is not yet two. I was so amazed. can you please give me some tips whenever you have the time. honestly, i didn’t know kids could learn to write so early. i have a 24 months old son i would love to teach him how to write. thank alot.
Great job, : you have really encouraged me to do something. I have an 18month he’s now saying about 150words would like to teach him how to write and read. Any hints?
I have all types of books in the house everywhere you will find books. He loves books alot. Thanks
Tips on Starting to Write;
I started with finger strengthening activities such as placing milk lid rings onto a peg board, placing pop sicle sticks into a old pringles can with a slit in the lid, placing cars or small toys in a aluminium tin, clipping clothes pins on a bowl or cup, small miniplitave exercises.
Started using the round crayons from crayola called Kaboodles, or making my own I have a video about using an old panty hose ball container, using pre-writing worksheets, vertical lines, straight lines, etc.
Then we moved to a highlighter that was thick and roun using them with pre-writing worksheets.
Then we moved to the jumbo crayons, then the jumbo pencils. With the pencil we used model magic to make a grip. It forms perfect to the little ones fingers.
The pre-writing worksheets that I used are from www.kizclub.com I think
I use large worksheets from them and www.first-school.ws these are easy for beginners. Now when starting to trace the letters you must get behind your child and place your hand over his/hers and write, allow the child to be free with movement, only guide them in the correct way to go, do not force the childs hand only assist them, so what if he/she is off a little allow them to learn freely without stress, and praise them ever so often. Always start with large letters and numbers. Then move towards the lined paper found at kizclub.
once he/she can draw a straight line move onto the letters. Remember only assist once or twice then allow the child to write on his/her own. We are now using sheet protectors over our lined paper and using a dry erase large marker to practice his name. What i did was on the large lined paper i wrote his name in a highlighter so he can see it correctly. Always have a guide for your toddler to go by. Even on the pages that just have the arrows highlight the letter or number. I like using the letters that have the numbers and arrows for the child to follow this also helps with learning to count.
Progress slowly that is okay, and practice. But once your little one can attempt to write watch out walls and anything that is paper laying around. Use washable markers and washable crayons!!!
Also a good way to strengthen finger muscles is to allow the child to take the lids off and on of OLD markers that do not write anymore. We did that for a long time and are still doing it.
Also we started out just taking a walk on a dry erase board pretending to be a car, varoom! we first practiced vertical lines then moved to horizontal but he loved going varoom, and still does.
Practice and have fun. Some other ideas that we did was using pudding to practice writing, using edable paint made from powdered sugar, we also painted with various objects around the house to get ready for writing.
Wow, I absolutely loved everything that you are doing. Thank you for sharing all this with us. Once my work schedule is sorted , I want to incorporate many of your ideas (also from the websites you have posted) . I was so excited at your lapbooks thread, so i made my first lapbook this weekend, It is very basic and i will take pictures of it and post it so I can get more suggestions as to how to improve it. KArma to you. Once
Great, good for you! Once you get started it seems to never stop. I am using lapbooks for high schoolers as well, and it is working out great. We add our art class in the mix, studying different techniques and things using the techniques in our creation of our lapbooks.