Schedule for a five year old not in preschool.?

Question

I have a give year old that doesn't go to school yet because of late birthday, we are trying the home learning process. We also have a 10 month old any ideas on how to schedule the five year olds days. Thank you

Answer 1

I homeschooled my kids from birth and they are teenagers now. I would suggest this.....

Learning alphabet

You can get a basket and choose one letter to focus on per week, fill the basket with things beginning with that letter and discuss the sound and shape of the letter. Do some writing practice and you can find good sheets on the net at edhelper.com

After about 30 minutes of this

Do some Art using the letters as a medium i.e. make a macaroni decorated A etc....

This should take about 30 minutes too

Have a 15 minute break for snack and potty

Have story time for 15 minutes or so

Learn a song per week

Exercise motor skills using playdough, practice pouring, separating objects according to size, shape and color,

and finally do some math activites. Teach counting first then counting by twos once counting is mastered.

Teach the days and months

These are all skills the child needs to start kindergarten. You can go online and ask for a basic skills requirement for kindergardeners. (google it)

Answer 2

I don't know about schedules, but reading to them and personal time aside, when you are busy give them tasks and activities that can help them to feel apart and like they are helping, sorting laundry can help with colors, labling all items in the house (with easy to remove colorful post-its) with the letter that they start with (say all of the items that start with 'b').  A treasure hunt for missing items,  helping to organize hte babys toys,  helping to teach the baby new words, for counting and helping we use the family ten item tidy, everyone goes and picks up ten items and counts while doing it, the rooms get clean faster and number concepts are learned in the process.  In my experience kids want to be involved, and at that age teaching can happen whenever and wherever; just be creative.

Answer 3

life is short, why schedule everything? It just adds stress!

Answer 4

Robin had some good ideas for activities.  I am glad you want to have a schedule.  Children (and adults) function much better and transition from activity to activity easier when they have a clear schedule.  A fun activity would be to design a schedule/calendar with your child.  Have several pictures of activities that will be done through out the day (ABC's, Lunch, Puzzle time, Read a Story, Play a Game, etc)  Use a poster board to create a time table.  At five years old, it is good to start introducing time, but it doesn't have to be very detailed as time is still pretty abstract at that age.  The whole point is so that the child knows the order of activities being done.  You can use velcro so that order of pictures can be arranged.  Once you and your child plan out the day, you can ask your child what activity is next.  If he/she knows they have just completed ABC time, they will look at the next picture and know it is lunch time.  This will also help you keep track of time and make sure you fit in the activities you want to do.