Teaching children to summarize or re-tell a story in their own words begins their journey of storytelling. Gifted storytellers spin tales of truth or fiction around their listeners. This precious gift of storytelling, and re-telling, also cultivates, for pre-schoolers, the academic rigor of listening and understanding a story. It utilizes so many skills and is so simple to implement through questions and just listening. Today we also wrote down Abe's re-telling. It worked!
Pre-school around here is just the dry run for kindergarten....I'll try to make all my mistakes now so I have it all figured out for kindergarten. I am sorely concerned I am going to forget to teach something glaringly important to my boy.
Before beginning this trial period of home education I invested in a notebook. Simple. No lines, no fancy ring binder, not easily opened but still a notebook. Today we read the story of Three Billy Goats Gruff, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Can anyone guess what number we were focusing on today?
We also read a short tale about a greedy dog who lost his meat barking at his reflection. Abe re-told the story using his own word of choice for the dog, selfish. He is currently working on a dry erase page for the letter B after coloring in a Butterfly. All I did today was cut out a three, haul out my "school basket" (more on that later) give Zana pages to color and stickers to stick and work with Abe for about 15 minutes reading, writing down his words and doing four subtraction equations. I am thankful for a quality mom's idea about starting a school book that enables my child to become an author before he can actually write. Two day ago Abe made up his own story that I wrote down. Of all his work this one causes the most pride in his little heart. It gave a glimpse into a little boy who loves to create already. Not just lego creations, "houses" with the pillows, and car lines but also artistic expressions with his words.
Simple stuff but fun. So synopsis of today's ideas.
Try recording you pre-schooler's creative stories enabling them to be an author.
When reading a book practice different skills, today we talked about summarization and re-telling. (this fosters all sorts of skills)
On a side note. I need help with creating a calendar routine. Any ideas? Remember no pinterest ideas I can't reproduce in five minutes in my home with my supplies (does not include a laminator or a copy machine).
Picture Pending for today.
Pre-school around here is just the dry run for kindergarten....I'll try to make all my mistakes now so I have it all figured out for kindergarten. I am sorely concerned I am going to forget to teach something glaringly important to my boy.
Before beginning this trial period of home education I invested in a notebook. Simple. No lines, no fancy ring binder, not easily opened but still a notebook. Today we read the story of Three Billy Goats Gruff, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Can anyone guess what number we were focusing on today?
We also read a short tale about a greedy dog who lost his meat barking at his reflection. Abe re-told the story using his own word of choice for the dog, selfish. He is currently working on a dry erase page for the letter B after coloring in a Butterfly. All I did today was cut out a three, haul out my "school basket" (more on that later) give Zana pages to color and stickers to stick and work with Abe for about 15 minutes reading, writing down his words and doing four subtraction equations. I am thankful for a quality mom's idea about starting a school book that enables my child to become an author before he can actually write. Two day ago Abe made up his own story that I wrote down. Of all his work this one causes the most pride in his little heart. It gave a glimpse into a little boy who loves to create already. Not just lego creations, "houses" with the pillows, and car lines but also artistic expressions with his words.
Simple stuff but fun. So synopsis of today's ideas.
Try recording you pre-schooler's creative stories enabling them to be an author.
When reading a book practice different skills, today we talked about summarization and re-telling. (this fosters all sorts of skills)
On a side note. I need help with creating a calendar routine. Any ideas? Remember no pinterest ideas I can't reproduce in five minutes in my home with my supplies (does not include a laminator or a copy machine).
Picture Pending for today.
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