[New to TWTM..looking for some help]

What are your kids doing now, as far as school goes?

 

As of now, my 4 year old and I specifically will work on the alphabet. She knows how to write her name and a few other small words like mom and dad. She knows her shapes, colors, and recognizes some numbers. She does not know the whole alphabet just yet. We read everyday and just use little experiences in our daily lives to try to recognize numbers and letters or colors on signs. She oddly is great with directions. We live in a kinda small town so we frequent the same places a lot in a week and she knows how to get to most of them. also, she knows her full name, address, my name, my husbands name and her sisters name. We do flash cards and just read a lot. 

[New to TWTM..looking for some help]

Welcome!  

 

First, don't stress out over starting anything formal with your 4 year old.   Take a deep breath.  You have oodles of time to help your child learn.  At this stage of the game inspiring a love of and desire to learn and explore through every day play and interaction and working to strengthen the family bond while you seek out more information will work just fine.   The press to start a very structured academic day with very young children can be detrimental.  Take time, do your research, read through books on brain development and learning for children in general before you hit the ground running full bore.   TWTM is awesome but it is not the be all and end all of existence for how kids learn.  Read it, learn what you can, use what makes sense and most importantly please enjoy this time with your kids.  They will not be this young again. :)

 

As for specifics on a starting point, do you do read alouds with your kids?

 

Thank you so much! I definitely do not want to re-create a classroom or anything right now but definitely want to spend a small amount of time on phonics and such. Well, I have read a book or two every night for about 3 years to her and now to my other daughter(2) and we do have a part of each day that they sit and will look through books. 

[New to TWTM..looking for some help]

Hello everyone,

 

 My name is Christina and I have a 4 and 2 year old. I recently purchased "The Well Trained Mind" and am looking for some resources and encouragement. I am feeling a bit overwhelmed with how/where to start. My 4 year old went to 3 year pre-school last year but I always felt the pull to home-school my kids. After ordering the book I really think this is the avenue I need to persue with our home-schooling. 

Do any of you here have any good places to start?? Thank you!! 

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