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My sister has an advanced 2 yr old. One can tell that he is aching for more mental stimulation. She reads to him a lot. This is her first little one and she is asking for ideas. She is very much a list maker and likes things planned out. Is there a website or curriculum that will bring it all together for her that is free or inexpensive. She has a very limited budget.

 

She loves the look of AAR pre-level but it's a big chunk of change. She is looking for secular.

 

My kids are not advanced and at that age my kids just played a lot and read books with me.

 

Throw some ideas at me.

 

Oh, I sent her the Jim Trelease book so she has a nice book list to work off of.

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Hubbardscupboard.org is great! Starts at age 2 with a theme based curriculum. It has everything planned out, week by week.

Cost: free

 

I also really like Flowering Baby ($30) which has daily plans using materials commonly found at home or the library.

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Hubbards's Cupboard is wonderful.

 

Starfall.com has some free reading resources.

 

www.first-school.ws has free coloring sheets and handwriting sheets, the site is cumbersome to navigate.

 

Angelicuum academy has a nursery level, you could look at their booklist online for ideas. They have great literature selections.

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http://www.montessoriathomebook.com/Home.html/ She may get some good use from this.

 

She may also be able to find Mudpies to Magnets inexpensively used on Amazon. I find that potentially gifted 2 year olds love science activities. Peak With Books may be found used.

 

MEP Reception year is free. http://www.nurturedbylove.ca/resources/cuisenairebook.pdf My dd loves doing these activities as well as the videos on education unboxed.

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I went through AAR pre with mine, but one of mine still needs phonemic awareness work. I saw this site mentioned at some point on here, and their phonological awareness activities are almost identical to what's in AAR pre. Sure, it's not all packaged up with worksheets and stickers, but get a puppet (they even recommend that), print some letter coloring pages, get some good alphabet "A is for this, B isfor that" type library books to read through, and you really have almost the same thing.

 

http://http//www.freereading.net/index.php?title=Phonological_Awareness_Activities

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Progressive Phonics.

 

Also, Blend Phonics is an older guide a la OPGTR that you can get free. Or OPGTR or Reading Reflex are really cheap.

 

And MEP Reception. And a set of C-rods is cheap plus Rosie's Videos and that cute free C-rod booklet for preschoolers.

 

Also, I would say FIAR or BFIAR can be really inexpensive. $35 plus a library card to go get the books.

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