I've been wanting to send my li'l man to a day care for him to develop his social skills. I'm working in a school and seeing those toddlers coming to school every morning made me want more to send my little man. I was sent to my first school at 4y/o and elders will always tell my mother that she's sending me so early. So for a very long time I thought 5 or 6 y/o is the right age for a child to attend a proper school.
Before I have my li'l man, I would see some children less than 2 y/o in a preschool, so I changed my mind and said that I will send my child to school at 3-4. He's turning 3 soon and I saw his interest in everything. I think I will change my mind again. I just felt he'll get bored with school early if I will push him to mainstream learning but I also do not want him to stop from learning. Since I prepare worksheets for my classes weekly, I thought I'll prepare something for him too to do at home - sort of homeschooling. I truly appreciates his nanny before who would prepare him some paper to write on or trace some letters. I don't demand it from any of his nanny but seeing their concern over my son makes my heart melt.
In this age of computers, there's no excuse for me not to let him explore the world outside. I am just taking advantage with the available technology at home. With the help of youtube and IPad, I must say his alphabet developed. He can't say all the letters yet but when I asks him where is letter "A, N, V..." he can recognize and point it. Then I started to print out worksheets for him to color and asked his 'lolo' to bring out the worksheets before or after his nap. I also see that he's now interested with clay, so it's time to bring out these stuff that he has long time ago.
I just thought that I can't simply give him any worksheets to do. He needs consistency to follow through what he's discovering everyday. So I plan to allow him to explore one letter a week. That gives us 26 weeks to complete, that's more than half of the school year, whoa! Of course, I need to be flexible and take it on his own pace. This is really a good start! I just hope his 'lolo' would be with me in this journey:)
Before I have my li'l man, I would see some children less than 2 y/o in a preschool, so I changed my mind and said that I will send my child to school at 3-4. He's turning 3 soon and I saw his interest in everything. I think I will change my mind again. I just felt he'll get bored with school early if I will push him to mainstream learning but I also do not want him to stop from learning. Since I prepare worksheets for my classes weekly, I thought I'll prepare something for him too to do at home - sort of homeschooling. I truly appreciates his nanny before who would prepare him some paper to write on or trace some letters. I don't demand it from any of his nanny but seeing their concern over my son makes my heart melt.
In this age of computers, there's no excuse for me not to let him explore the world outside. I am just taking advantage with the available technology at home. With the help of youtube and IPad, I must say his alphabet developed. He can't say all the letters yet but when I asks him where is letter "A, N, V..." he can recognize and point it. Then I started to print out worksheets for him to color and asked his 'lolo' to bring out the worksheets before or after his nap. I also see that he's now interested with clay, so it's time to bring out these stuff that he has long time ago.
I just thought that I can't simply give him any worksheets to do. He needs consistency to follow through what he's discovering everyday. So I plan to allow him to explore one letter a week. That gives us 26 weeks to complete, that's more than half of the school year, whoa! Of course, I need to be flexible and take it on his own pace. This is really a good start! I just hope his 'lolo' would be with me in this journey:)
I am so glad I found these sites for him to watch or for me to get ideas from.
Phonics Song 2 - he loves to watch this
Now, I feel I want to be a Kindergarten Teacher!
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Hi, my name is Heather! Please email me when you can, I have a question about your blog!
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