After careful consideration, Bradley and I have decided to forgo traditional preschool for Jude in favor of some Little Gym memberships or dance classes.  In those classes he will still develop relationships with his peers and need to attend to a grown up who is not his parent so he will have that needed year of socialization and group dynamic readiness.  We decided to do this so we can figure out where his physical strengths lay and the hope is that he will become a more active child.  But that leaves us with the problem of kindergarten readiness.  We had sort of decided to kind of wing it and do a home-school preschool with workbooks, library trips, zoo trips and a goal of letter/sound association, number quantity association and the ability to read his name come the end of August.

I brought this up with my brilliant friend, Becca Ross, who is a Kindergarten teacher at our school.  I know that kindergarten readiness is a BIG issue for those teachers, so I wanted to get her thoughts on what we were planning to do.  It was a GOOD thing I did as she is starting a home-school preschool program that is an online course for parents complete with book lists, printables and curriculum to guide your preschoolers education!  We are going to pilot the program this spring to see how it goes, so if anyone wants to join us the cost is a mere 50.00 for the course.

And just look what our little writer can do.  Someone likes to spend his evenings doing ‘homework’ lately.  He complains all the while he does it, then asks for another page once he finishes the first.  🙂

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