What is the best home school program for pre k?

Question

What is the best home school program for pre k?

Answer 1

Love, respect, manors and positive attention. everything else is overrated!

Answer 2

It is very nice that you want to home school you child. However, the first thing a preschooler needs to learn is social skills (sharing, taking turn, and socializing with peers) If you have many children and you can teach him/her this skills find, if not it is better to consider a program to easy up the estress of going to kinder garden no knowing how to share.

Answer 3

You don't need a "program". Give your kids lots of exposure to books. Provide the basics-crayons, paper, paints, blocks , puzzles and toys that require thinking and imagination and don't require batteries. Take them interesting places in your community and talk with them about what they see. Ask questions that can't be answered yes or no. Give them some experience in groups of kids-library story hour or a class at the Y work well. Make sure they have some experience being away from you. Limit TV and computer time, encourage outdoor play. Let them help with household chores. Sorting and matching socks or setting the table with the right number of forks are math experiences. Let them help you cook and shop. Avoid coloring books. Go to perpetualpreschool.com for recipes for clays and doughs. Never give them a model or tell them what to create. And don't ask "What is it?". It's the process, not the product, that is important.Let them dictate and illustrate stories about what interests them and make a book. They will be well prepared and eager to learn if you avoid packaged "curriculum" that stifle learning and imagination.

Answer 4

Though I don't homeschool myself I teach preschool and I have a sibling who homeschools and friends that do.  I have asked many of them what curriculum they use and find that there isn't just one.  Yes, they've been encouraged to buy a curriculum and follow it but once they get into it they don't like it for one reason or another.  One of their goals in homeschooling to teach their child in a very "personal" way.  So most of them create their own. I suggest you find out what the Kindergarten curriclum guidelines are for your state/area and go from there.  That is what I have done myself, with my program.

A homeschooling parent suggested the book Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfriend Englemann and so I purchased it before recommending it to my sister.  It's a great book...dry...but you can add to it.  Has everything you need to teach your child to read, if that is your goal.  My son isn't yet in Kindergarten yet and reads at the end of a Kindergarten level/beginning first grade level...and this was by Lesson 70.  The review on Amazon.com are great.  Under $20.