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Preschool At Home

Since the school year here in NJ has just started, I’ve been thinking more and more about Alexa’s future schooling needs.  We’re fairly certain we’ll send her to Pre-K the year before Kindergarten....

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First Day of [Home]School

Just a picture teaser – more to come once our first full week is complete! And of course a link to the Preschool photo set on Flickr

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Learning the Letter A

We’ve completed our first week of Preschool at Home and we’ve both learned a lot!  For the first day I set up our alphabet wall and laid out all of the books for our day of animals.  When Alexa woke up...

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Preschool Setup

So far I’m really enjoying having this bit of structure in our day.  It makes the mornings go by super fast and keeps Alexa from asking for “TV on” as soon as we come downstairs for breakfast.  Our...

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B Week Recap

This week was pretty amazing.  Alexa definitely gets that letters make sounds.  She has started to sound out the first letter of words on request.  We started with Ba Ba Ba Balloon starts with Ba Ba Ba...

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Week of C

We live in a very colorful home, so there was so doubt letter C week would kick off with COLORS.  This was a really fun week.  I tried to incorporate other mediums into the mix by cooking (snuck...

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Benefits of Homeschooling

I realize we haven’t been at this long, but there are already some pretty clear benefits of this Preschooling at Home adventure: Alexa no longer begs for the TV in the morning, and less and less...

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December PreSchool At Home

When I was in grade school I remember the month of December as full of fun and excitement.  There were so many crafts to make, songs to sing, and holiday concerts to prepare for.  I thought that I...

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Forming a Sisterly Bond Through Baby Sign Language

When Alexa was a baby we decided not to try teaching her Baby Sign Language.  I had too much on my hands with my mini “cling-on” and was just a tad overwhelmed during the prime BSL period (6 months to...

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