Okay, folks buckle up. The 2020/2021 school year is gonna be a wild ride. Our Homeschool Preschool routine have been laid out and I wanted to share with you all that I hope to get done in each of our lessons.

my little corner of organized crafty chaos
Okay, folks buckle up. The 2020/2021 school year is gonna be a wild ride. Our Homeschool Preschool routine have been laid out and I wanted to share with you all that I hope to get done in each of our lessons.
This was the first month so far that I have had to do five full weeks of tot school planning!
This is our first real month of tot school. Prior to this, I would randomly pull an activity out. I wanted to start slow to make sure that we were both okay with it and not overwhelmed. (to be honest, she’s a pretty chill kid so she would be fine I didn’t want to bite off more than I could chew…lol) So our March Tot School is more or less just a theme for me to work with and maybe a couple of new words for her to hear.
Tot School is not quite preschool – there is no structured lessons or specific thing she has to learn. But it’s also more than just daycare. It’s more about exposure to concepts and everyday tasks, as well as the chance to practice skills that those busy toddler brains are already learning. It also gives a theme for some direction and keeps things interesting for everyone!
Bitty is 18 months old right now and I find that if I don’t have some kind of plan in place we end up watching too much TV. So what did I do? I made a plan, and not just loose ‘hmmm here’s a couple ideas’ kind of plan. There are tables and categories and themes. Just like you would expect my type A brain to do!
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