1st year of Pre-school!

Our first year of pre-school is starting up on Monday and I am so excited! I have a lot of fun things planned for my girls this year, but I suddenly realized that I needed to make a schedule or we were just not going to have time for it all. (Is there anyone else out there who stays incredibly busy all day long but somehow only has some laundry and dinner to show for it? :) Here is the schedule I plan to *loosely* follow with my girls. We are only going to do school about 3 days a week but will follow the afternoon schedule on most days because it makes life easier. Karlie usually wants to do everything her sister does, so she will always start out with us and if she gets bored, she will just play with her doll-house or puzzles while we finish the longer read-alouds or table work.

7:30 -- wake up, eat breakfast

8:00 -- Bible Time, weather chart, calendar

8:30 -- get dressed and do chores

9:00 -- History cards memory work, Teaching Reading, manner review, letter of the week, number-line practice

9:45 -- Preschool workbook

10:00 -- snack and outside

10:30 -- daily read-aloud, short book, Brain Quest activity

11:00 -- blanket-time while I do housework

11:30 -- free play while I do housework and fix lunch

12:00 -- lunch

12:30 -- library books

1:00 -- naps

3:00 -- wake up, library books, snack

3:30 -- Activity with Mama (click HERE to see my list of optional activities we will rotate through)

4:00 -- free play or housework with Mama

4:30 -- Make dinner/ free art work (they usually want to help make dinner but if not they can use markers, stamps, stencils, etc at the table in the kitchen)

5:00 -- Clean up/outside time/ watch for Daddy :)

5:30 -- Dinner with Daddy

6:00 -- Playtime with Daddy

6:30 -- Pajamas, singing, Scripture memory, Bible reading, prayer

7:00 -- In bed!

To make my life easier and reduce the weekly planning load, I decided to make a list of all the read-alouds, blanket-time, and learning activities/games I want to use with the girls this fall. (If you want to see my master list, click HERE.) I found this great pocket chart at Amazon and I am using it to show the girls our schedule each day. The best part is that the chart folds up completely flat and I slide it behind my couch (along with our calendar and weather chart) when when are not using it! It also has a pocket in the middle that I use to store my weather pieces, pictures, and extra letter cards.