Preschool Days for the Princess

Although we have been doing plenty of tot school and preschool activities and learning things with the princess, as I mentioned yesterday I think she is ready for more structured learning. After a lot of research and searching we decided to use Horizons Preschool for Three's Curriculum by AOP. I debated between their preschool for three's (which is a newer program) and their regular preschool program which is a little more advanced. I think this program will actually be a little too easy for her, but I didn't want to make it too hard and frustrate her, and I want to make sure we cover all the bases. I think this will be a nice, gentle introduction to school. We will be going through this at her speed, which may mean covering things a lot faster than they are intended to be covered, but these will mainly be things she already knows.

We received the program this weekend, thanks to some super fast shipping by AOP! The princess was so excited and ready to start it. We had some appointments this morning so we had to do afternoon school today, and she was more than ready to do her "new schoolwork".  The curriculum set includes a teachers guide, student workbook, student workbook companion, and a bible story reader. All are super cute. There are 40 lessons and they recommend covering one a week, and have suggestions on doing it in 2, 3, or 5 days a week. As I said we are going to let her go at her own pace, and she finished a little over half of the work for the first lesson today.

I LOVE the teachers guide. There is a supply list, lots of notes on each section, and lots of extra suggested ideas and activities. We read the bible story, went over the memory verse (which she sounds so adorable saying), and went over the poem God Made the Animals which she loved because it had included actions. The boys never liked stuff like that so I am excited that she does! There are 5 worksheets and she did 3 of them in no time, they were really easy for her. There are even some suggested gentle math activities which we practiced using our counting animals. We have these counting animals and love them. For each lesson there is also a suggested color and shape theme. Since she knows most all of her colors and shapes we just talked about these quickly. 

I have to say so far I am very excited about this little curriculum for her and really glad we chose it. Along with this we are also using an adorable devotions for preschoolers book I picked up on amazon. It's perfect for this age and she loves reading it each day. We do a lot of read alouds as well, most from the Sonlight reading lists, as we are huge Sonlight fans in this family. (Keep an eye out for many Sonlight posts soon!) That is what most all of the boys curriculum consists of, and I assume hers will in the future, but for now we wanted to add in a little something else for her as well.

We are looking forward to another exciting day of preschool (along with 1st and 5th grades!) tomorrow.