Time for School!
For lack of a better word, I’m creating a category called School. I suspect there will be many things to post here in the coming weeks, months, and years. We haven’t made any decisions regarding schools yet, seeing as there are so many options and the Boo is only two.
Nevertheless, lately I’ve been feeling… chaotic. The need for more order, more things to do, more focus. And since I’m feeling better, no time like the present to do something about it, right?
I’m starting to look into preschool type activities. We may look into some sort of co-operative preschool for the Boo, but I’m not overly driven to do that sort of thing. It still feels like paying for playgroup. But the co-operative ones aren’t too expensive and with a new baby it might be a nice change of pace, so will look into it at some point.
For now though I’m starting to look more into homeschool sort of resources. I’m a member of a preschool homeschooling yahoo group which I totally lurk on, and I’ve been saving interesting emails for a while now, but never really investigating them. Time to start looking at them, methinks!
I saw a really interesting idea from one email that suggested picking a letter a week, hanging up signs with that letter around the house and having activities around it, like tracing it, coloring it, finding objects that start with that letter, etc. Sounds like fun and focus, so now I’m looking for alphabet stencils. I would just wing it, but my lettering has always been atrocious. Maybe the Boo and I could even make an alphabet quilt. How cute would that be? With pockets for things that start with the letter?
Anyway in my internet journey today I ran across the Kaplan Early Learning Company which has about ten thousand things I’d love to have at my disposal. They even have parachutes. I totally want to get one of those for our playgroup next summer, loads o’ fun. And yes, they have stencils. Although I’m going to keep looking online because surely there are some for free you can just print up at home. For that matter I should be able to make my own with a bloody word processor. The fog is clearly, slowly, but surely.
And it occured to me there are a variety of things one could do with giant letters. Get a whole bunch copied, sorted into the alphabet, and made into glued tablets at Kinkos. Draw on them, laminate them, and hang them up. Cut them out of foam and lace them together, ideally into words, but we’ll not be too picky at this point. Put them on the floor and make a game out of finding the right letter. Match the upper to the lower case. Just plain matching, for that matter. Seems endless, really.
I’m quite happy about this train of thought. Sometimes I feel so uncreative, but then sometimes I just get the right energy and my brain just leaps off in new and unexpected directions. Nice change of pace :)