Monday, November 19, 2007

Danny's First Day

Danny's first day of preschool using the Preparatory Curriculum (free) at http://letteroftheweek.com





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Surprisingly, once he sat down with a little direction- he didn't want to stop so each crayon I gave him, I repeated the name of the color numerous times while he used it. I helped him with the hamburger one. On UnitedStreaming.com we watched, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that type and Letter A from Letter TV


We went to the library to get books about cows, counting and shapes and came home with:


  1. Shape Spotters (All Aboard Math Reader) by Megan Bryant
  2. Cock-A-Doodle-Doo: A Farmyard Counting Book by Steve Lavis
  3. The Cow Buzzed by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha
  4. Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
  5. The Berenstain Bears: Down on the Farm by Stan & Jan Berenstain
  6. Daisy the Firecow by Viki Woodworth
  7. Sixteen Cows by Lisa Wheeler
  8. and at home we have Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You? by Dr. Seuss
I have more activities for Danny to do this week and Camille is getting the 3R treatment- reading, handwriting/spelling and math. I'm glad we started this, Danny seems to have really taken to it. Of course, it was the first day but I think this is gentle enough to work at 3 years of age and right up our alley. Hopefully by the end of the week I can record Danny saying "Hey Diddle, Diddle".

8 comments:

  1. Lisa~10:38 AM, November 19, 2007

    Happy First Day Danny! :)

    Lisa~

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  2. Jennefer2:16 PM, November 19, 2007

    After watching Danny's video Haddon said, "Mommy, wet me see dat gen. That's hiwawious!"

    Happy first day of preschool, Danny!

    Jennefer

    Translation if needed: Mommy, let me see that again. That's hilarious! :)

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  3. my5wolfcubs4:27 PM, November 19, 2007

    Repetition is an important key to learning! :)
    Lee

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  4. Anonymous3:51 PM, November 22, 2007

    What fun! Love his school uniform. Sounds like Danny is off to a great start.

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  5. Anonymous8:21 PM, November 25, 2007

    looks like a fun day

    Don't you just love united streaming!
    Melissa

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  6. AmyV12:43 AM, November 28, 2007

    Wow! Looks like you are off to a good start. My little one is almost exactly the same age as yours. I have been working with him but I haven't gotten totally "formal" with him yet. We are working on it though.
    Good luck!!!

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  7. jhill92312:38 PM, November 28, 2007

    Hey Jessica, how do you guys approach math memorization??

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  8. Tami, full-time mom; part-time foodie4:09 PM, December 04, 2007

    The video was so sweet! I think Mr. Danny is ready for the letter "C" with all of his cow books. What a go-getter!

    : )
    Tami

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