Preschool curriculum for 2year old...

Maroc_uk · November 1, 2010, 3:42pm

Hello,

Just wanted to know if anyone here is using a preschool curriculum for their 2-3 year old??? I know of the abc home preschool curriculum for 2-6 year olds, but not sure if there are any better options out there? Any advice please…am also looking for french and arabic!!!

Bouchra

carpe_vestri_vita · November 1, 2010, 5:20pm

There was quite a number of curricula discussed in this post http://forum.brillkids.com/homeschooling/infant-to-preschool-curriculum-by-the-month/
and this one http://forum.brillkids.com/homeschooling/homeschool-pre-kkindergarten-curriculum/
and also this one
http://forum.brillkids.com/homeschooling/everything-preschool-theme-units/

Some people were discussing the place read alouds can have in a preschool curiculum, here http://forum.brillkids.com/homeschooling/read-alouds-before-prek/

Luv2Read shared her curiculum choices in this thread http://forum.brillkids.com/homeschooling/comparing-homeschooling-curriculums-what-do-you-use/

As did purple fungi

purplefungi post:39:

I have been doing Montissori activities with my toddler, however I have recently had the urge to start more preschool/kindergarten projects. My son is almost 2.5 so this would be pretty age appropriate. I have really liked Brightly Beaming Resources http://www.letteroftheweek.com/ for ideas.

Since he doesn’t get the concept of writing so much, we have been doing the following:

Prewriting exercises printed from http://www.kidssoup.com/ (It’s a ~22.00/year membership and has been worth every penny)

Jump Start Advanced Preschool World computer program (I click for him) This costs around 40 USDs, but my son really enjoys it. http://www.jumpstart.com/

I make my own manipulatives by printing activities from Kidssoup and Kidsparks http://www.kidsparkz.com/index.html Kidsparks (cost 50 USDs) has over 10,000 pages of printable resources. I then laminate the activities and cut them out. For instance, this week, we are playing concentration with different kinds of apple pictures, sequencing different kinds of apples against a control, sequencing how an apple is made, and matching different colored “As” with their lower case partner.

I also go over a page or two a day of Get Ready for Pre-K. We don’t mark anything at this point in the book. We just talk about things. http://www.amazon.com/Get-Ready-Pre-K-Interactive-Illustrations/dp/1579125492/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247087632&sr=8-1

There’s also the Jones Geniuses reading and math program discussed in multiple places including here http://forum.brillkids.com/general-discussion-b5/jones-geniuses-math-and-reading-programs-are-you-interested/

If you’re interested in creating your own curriculum, here is a post by Trinity with the learning outcomes for preschoolers (ie what the child should know when they finish the program)
http://forum.brillkids.com/general-discussion-b5/preschool-curriculum-guide/

As for languages, I love Little Pim. We have spanish. It’s fantastic. I know they have French, but I don’t know about Arabic.
The library post has some French resources as well.

Hope this helps.

kizudo · November 1, 2010, 8:54pm

Wow! Carpe Vestra! What an indepth answer! Thanks for taking the time!

Maroc_uk · November 1, 2010, 9:44pm

Wow, thats ALOT of info…thanks carpi…will have a read through it all and see what its all about. I am also using lil pim in french and arabic (they do have arabic…yay), its fantastic, my son has learnt soooo much from them its quite shocking! Well, thanks again carpi.

andreasro · November 3, 2010, 12:58am

Thank you for sharing. I found many useful ideas, and many things I didn’t think of before.

reei · November 3, 2010, 5:56am

i just started to follow the tweedlewink for 0 - 6 years old.