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Preschool Corner ~ Planning Forms

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This last week and a half has been spent planning, organizing, re-organizing and pulling together ideas for what our upcoming year is going to look like. Overall, it’s finally beginning to ‘click’ and I’m getting an idea of what the year will look like for Kaleb ~ and that’s exciting for me.

In all honesty, I feel that he gets the leftovers when it comes to learning time, especially as I’m trying to fit in all that the older three need to do. I really wanted to have something in place for him that he would be excited about, I would be excited about…and that would be fun! Cindy from Along the Way has been busy working with me to come up with some literature based units that we can do with our boys and it has been FUN!!! We’re working on some fun printables and lapbook-style units that we’re so excited about!

This week we brought home some monarch caterpillars and have a new space {thanks to my re-organizing} to watch and observe the caterpillars up close. Wednesday morning the kids woke up and were able to watch Kaleb’s caterpillar go into its chrysalis ~ SO much fun!! We were able to video tape it too and Kaleb was so excited about the ‘dancing’ that it was doing. :)

I’ve posted about the planning pages that we used last year, but this year I’ve revamped them a little bit and focused it more toward literature-based studies. If you would like to download the 2 page Preschool Planning form, just click on the thumbnail images below.

Preschool Planning Form 2010Preschool Planning Form 2010 2 

We try to get all of our ‘school time’ done Monday through Thursday. The first page has room for planning daily activities in the following areas: reading {related to something in the actual book}, doing {something that we can do that relates to the topic: lapbook, gross motor, math, etc…}, song/game, Bible {verse/song}, and crafts. The second page gives me room to expand my ideas and jot down notes for the following areas: Bible/Character, Language, Science/Nature, Math, Gross/Fine Motor, Arts & Crafts, Songs & Games.

At the bottom of the page, I also have room to plan what the basic layout of Kaleb’s workboxes will be for the week. I have 9 planning spaces {the workbox unit that we’re using has 9 boxes overall} ~ but we’ll be using only 6 of the boxes, with 3 as more some fun ‘extras’ for our day. I’ll be sharing more soon with pictures of our school area layout for this year, so stay tuned for that!

Are YOU getting excited for the upcoming year??? Link up what you’ve been doing and what you are planning on doing. :) Can’t wait to see what you ladies are up to with your kids this year!

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  1. Danielle says

    Is there a place to get a version of the template that can been edited.  I love this layout but just want to tweak it a little bit.

  2. Love your blog !!!!!!

  3. what are workboxes?

  4. At what age do you start homeschool preschool? My 2.5 year old knows all of his letters, but I haven’t done any formal teaching with him.

    • we didn’t really start ‘formally’ until ours were four. The biggest suggestion I have – read with your kids. There are so many fun activities that you can do to go along with stories and be creative and make the book even more fun – and it all involves learning in some way, shape or form – just the more unintentional kind. :)

  5. LOVE THIS BLOG THANK YOU FOR BLESSING US WITH ALL THE WONDERFUL IDEAS TO USE FOR OUR HOME :)

  6. Thanks! I love preschool resources :-)

  7. craftjunkie85 says

    I absolutely LOVE these! It is exactly what I was looking for. Every subject and simply laid out. Thank you for sharing. Blessings to you.

  8. thanks for the free printable for my twins in the fall! I hardly ever thank people for all the hard work that they do to make up these printables, so I thought I’d thank you! <3

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