Pre-K Curriculum

Last year I was pretty much a slacker with Lincoln.  He would occasionally do work and then want to play.  Coralee would get mad that he wasn't working as hard as she was but I told her that when she was his age, she just played.  We didn't do anything formal.  Well, now we're officially pre-K age and the only year Coralee went to "school".  It's time to do something. 

Here are my simple goals for him:
1)  Write numbers
2)  Write letters - upper & lower case
3)  Read lots of books

I have tried to use Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading.  Coralee absolutely hated it.  Still haven't figured that one out except maybe she knew what the sounds were and was miffed I thought she didn't.  Lincoln & Lauramae had fun with the poems last year.  I love the simple, classical approach but I really felt like he needed more.  I also liked the idea of being able to plug through an actual, factual consumable book.  So, in a moment of excitement at the 20% off sale at Mardel, I bought First Start Reading by Memoria Press.  I think it might be a little much for him in the beginning but I still have the rest of the alphabet sheets I'd printed from education.com last year.  I think we'll finish the rest of the alphabet (we ended on "N") and then move on to those books.  I showed them to him a few days ago and he got the excited giggle about writing and reading.  That did this Momma's heart good!  I'm also planning to buy more of the BOB books to use with him.

For Math, we'll be picking and choosing things out of Saxon K.  A wiser woman would just chunk the book, work on numbers and simple addition and be done with it.  But I bought that book and by golly, we're going to attempt to use it. 

He'll be in CC again this year.  I hope that he will be sweet to his tutor.  We were very blessed that he had Mrs. Cox who loved him in spite of his behavior.  As I've told him since he was a baby, it's a good thing he's cute!  Hopefully he has matured over the summer.  I'm still a little scarred from being in his classroom for VBS in Boston a few weeks ago.  But that's a blog post for another day.  :-)