Little Monster School ~ 1

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Koko and Fifi have officially started doing school together!!! So most of my Tot School and Preschool posts will be all in one from now on 🙂

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As part of their schooling together, I downloaded 2 themes, Knights for Koko from Homeschool Creations and 2 Princess Preschool packs/sets from 1+1+1=1 (currently Fifi’s favourite) and Confessions of a Homeschooler (a little more advanced, Fifi isn’t quite ready for this yet).

I made the covers for their workbooks. My kids don’t respond to lapbooks well, I find that they work better, and with less fuss, in workbook format. I think Fifi feels like a big girl with her workbook like her two older brothers 🙂

Koko’s Knight book cover
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Koko’s Knight book ready for school – I put all the loose bits into a ziplock bag to prevent them from getting lost.
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Fifi’s Princess book cover
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Fifi’s Princess book ready for school – I put all the loose bits into a ziplock bag to prevent them from getting lost
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Koko and Fifi getting ready for their school time
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Koko’s writing practice
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Fifi colouring
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The end result
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Koko dug out a Priddy Dinosours book and insisted that it be part of his school day. So we worked on fine motor control by tracing on the lines. Look at that concentration ♥
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Fifi and the picture matching activity. She LOVES this activity and does it over and over again. I need to redirect her attention onto the other activities in the book ♥ She was so chuffed with herself at one stage. Here she is sitting back and surveying her work.
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Here she stuck the pictures into the correct box “Is a Princess” and “Not a Princess”. I cut the pictures and put the glue on for her. She did this activity with some help.
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The Princess book from 1+1+1=1 comes with a little dice you need to put together. Fifi squashed the first one, lost the second one and now the third one (LOL) is packed away out of her reach until school time. I “Fifi Proofed” it, to prevent her from squashing it by putting a styrofoam block in the centre, glueing the cut out dice template onto the block and then covering it in DC Fix (sticky plastic). Its virtually indestructible now.
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Here is the finished dice. The matchbox is there to give you some indication of the size.
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While the two Little Monsters are busy with school, Noo is sitting doing his school work ♥
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Our current set up will change as our needs change. I may move the two Little Monster’s school time to the afternoon, depending on Noo’s time requirements with me.

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Preschool Update

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Another quick pick update, this time with Koko as the main focus

Our letter J collage picture, Jellyfish. I’ll post about our Letter Jj adventures soon, I promise
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Koko and Fifi painting
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Koko loves to write his “name”. The letter C
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He loved making the hippo so much during his Letter Hh adventure, that we decided to do it again. I’ll post about the Letter Hh soon
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During one shopping trip at the mall, we watched workers trim some trees. Koko was fascinated by them and investigated the branches for almost an hour
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Preschool Goals

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I got this wonderful goal list from Carisa’s 1+1+1=1 site. I want to have these all goals met by the end of 2012 so when we go into Gr 0 (South Africa’s Kindergarten) he has a firm foundation to start on.

* Manners and social skills
* Letter Identification
* Phonemic Awareness (sounds letters make)
* Colour Identification
* Number Identification
* Shape Identification (square, triangle, circle, oval, rectangle, heart, star)
* Sizes (big, medium, small)
* Dolch Sight Words (pre primer level) a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you
* Early Letter Writing Skills (proper pencil grip)
* Fine Motor Skills-Cutting, Gluing, Coloring, Tracing
* Print Awareness (following print, understanding that letters make up words, etc.)
* Reading Comprehension
* Vocabulary Development
* Musical Awareness (learning new songs, exploring instruments, exposing rhythm, etc.)
* Exposure to different fonts
* Basic Computer Skills (through the use of the Power Point lessons)

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