My kids

One of the best advantages of being a homemaker is being there to educate my children at a young age. There are so much advantages to having the building blocks at an early age. After reading about Tot School from the blog 1+1+1=1 (the link is in the list of blogs I follow below) I was inspired to start doing something with Arydona in schooling.

Tot school is a way to teach early education skills to children before pre-k. It is simply a way of introducing colors, shapes, etc. I did a lot with Bella in kindergarten using Waldorf and Montessori methods, so I am trying to introduce some of the same style with Arydona.

Today was our first day and we were off to a great start! She knew so much more than I thought she did. We started with colored puff balls and sorted them according to color and according to size, she was even able to put them in a pattern.

The next thing we moved to was playing with texture using shaving cream. This was an activity I had done with my preschoolers when I taught preschool in college. That was HILLARIOUS!!!! I put an apron on her so her clothes wouldn't be too badly messed up. She had shaving cream all the way up her arms, her legs , the table, the floor, her feet, there were footprints all over the floor. It was so great to let her have fun. But the other side that is also great is that shaving my cream is also soap, so it cleaned floor and the kids table!!!!