Preschool

So once again, it has been a LOOONG time since I last posted. Being pregnant and having a preschooler really does take up a lot of time. Whew.

I have started looking at preschools for the fall, and we are also doing some homeschooling at home right now. I'm enjoying it SO much!! These younger years are fun - doing crafts and stories and activity pages. It helps that I have energy back after the first 4-5 months of pregnancy, too!

The last two weeks we have worked on the letter A - long A the first week and short A the second week. We are starting letter B this week. I have been using First School for activities to go along with the letters. (Another great source for crafts and activities - DLTK)

I am also incorporating Bible lessons starting this week using this site. We did the story of Creation this morning (with some great printouts from this site) and will be making a Creation mobile this afternoon. I'm doing Noah's Ark later this week (to go along with B is for Boat and we'll discuss A is for Ark too -- I'm really just playing catch-up on the Hubbard's Cupboard weekly plan!).

Natalie has also started a gymnastics class, which she LOVES. She is growing up so quickly, and I can see the end of the "threes" in sight. It has been a rough year at times, with lots of "discussions" about appropriate behavior. :) However, she is starting to really mature and be more agreeable. It's wonderful, but as always also a little bittersweet to see her growing up so fast.

I have 9 weeks left until our baby girl arrives, and then our life will become chaotic once again, in the most wonderful way possible!!

I will try to post more about what we are doing for home preschool in case anyone out there is interested! :) There are some great resources out there, but it does take a lot of time. At least a couple of hours preparing for the week. I may cave and spend $500 to get Sonlight Curriculum sometime soon, so I don't have to keep doing all this work... but so far, it's going well!