Homeschooling / Preschool

This is where you will find awesome information for homeschooling your young child! This is also a great resource for preschool, pre-k and kindergarten teachers!

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    Articles

  • Teaching Great Art to Children: A lot of the subjective ideas about art can be hard for children to understand, here's my journey in teaching art concepts to my preschool class.
  • Creating Your Own Curriculum: this can be intimidating- here's an article on how I do it.
  • Cooking With Children: an article with links to recipes for individual cooking with children.
  • ASL Viewer: For those of you who use sign language with your kiddos- here's where you can learn more signs!

    Crafts & Activities

  • Ideas By Theme: All sorts of awesome ideas from myself and other teachers sorted by theme!
  • Make Toddler Friendly Crayons!: A really easy way to make crayons in your choice of colors- your older kiddos can help with some parts too.
  • Cooked Playdough Recipe: Easy cooked playdough recipe. Add a packet of playdough for a yummy scent and color.
  • Artists Helping Children: huge list of links to arts and crafts projects for kids!
  • Coloring Guy: This such an adorable little guy- print out a stack and bind and decorate with scraps and colors!

  • Magnetic Go Fish Game: With a fishing pole and cloth fish! What an awesome game!
  • Free Kids Crafts: a whole bunch of crafty ideas!
  • Make a newspaper hut!
  • Scratch Art Paper: You know- that all black paper that you scratch off and it's all colored underneath- you can make that!
  • Toddler Toddler: Activities for toddlers!

    Preschool Curriculum

  • Abecedarian Academy: Homeschooling for preschool
  • Brightly Beaming Resources: Early childhood resources for the home- letter or the week curriculum.
  • Tracing Printables: A HUGE list of names to choose from, plus letters, numbers and shape tracing worksheets to print out.
  • 170 Early Childhood Education Themes: from Everything Preschool
  • Enchanted Learning
  • Kiddley: This is an awesome blog with tons and tons of creative activities for children!
  • Writing Curriculum: for grade school ages.
  • Gayle's Preschool Rainbow: Where Early Childhood Teachers Find Ideas
  • Starfall: for teaching children to read
  • Brightly Beaming Resources: home of the letter of the week.
  • Paula's Archives: resource for preschool curriculum
  • A to Z Teacher Stuff: printables and ideas!
  • Hubbard's Cupboard: Pre-k and kindergarten ideas.
  • Internet 4 Classrooms: links to help preschoolers learn about computers and the internet.
  • Bubble Wrap Popping!!: um.... too much fun.... even adults will love it (btw, it's great hand eye coordination and mouse control)
  • Teacher Page: from a kindergarten teacher.
  • Children's Books Classified by subject
  • The Perpetual Preschool: themes and ideas!
  • Story Props: with suggestions on how to use them with popular and classic stories.
  • abc teach
  • Zaner Bloser Alphabet Chart
  • DLTK kids>: crafts and activities for kiddos!
  • Shape Books: With or without lines, so you can make themed books.