Homeschool Preschool Year in Review

Each year at the end of the year, I put together a post that looks back at our school year.  ED has had a great year. She was 4 this year and turned 5 this spring. We homeschool together… so ED participates with my older two kids in all their activities. Some of these units (like the 5 senses) were mainly for ED, others were mainly for the older kids, but ED tagged along. The older kids generally cover the topics in more depth, but ED enjoys participating in the hands-on activities.

I put in links back to the posts (or to the units themselves), if you are interested in seeing what we covered in a bit more depth.

Science:

Some of the science units she did this year included:

• 5 Senses Unit

•  Mealworms — Living and Non-Living

•  Above and Below Ground

Visit that post to get the free print out for that preschool activity (what lives above ground, below ground):

• Plants: parts of the plant; symmetry; carnations and celery experiment

• Invertebrates and vertebrates: Montessori cards; Farm Animals; Vertebrae Man (how the backbone works)

• World Animals and the 7 Continents:

See some of the recent additions to our World Animals Packet!

• Rocks and Minerals: We had so much fun with this unit! We did lots of hands-on activities everything from panning for gems to growing crystals to exploring the properties of rocks…

Sedimentary rocks above with chocolate and metamorphic rocks below with crayons:

• Human Body, Digestive System (she participated in all of our hands-on activities): Again, ED was right in with us for all the hands-on activities we did in this unit…. like learning about how swallowing really works:

The epiglottis above… and the muscles forcing the food bolus down the throat below:

• Science Experiments: She loves science experiments and we threw in lots of hands-on activities throughout the year. (Explosion of colors: milk and dye experiment)

History/Geography:

General Preschool:

• Handwriting
• Winter Theme Preschool Unit
• Pete the Cat Unit

Reading/Phonics: She went from barely being able sound out three-letter words to working on words with vowel teams. She read through the first set of Bob Books (last summer), all 52 of the free Sam readers, and the first four sets (1, 1A, 2 and 2A) of Primary Phonics.

We’ve read lots and lots of books aloud together… too many to write about here!

Math:

• Counting
• Clocks

• Skip counting (10s, 5s and just started on 2s)
• Doubling (1+1 through 6+6 and is now working beyond those)
• Allowance and money
• Pete the Cat
• Click here to see all our preschool math posts (and free downloads)