Disclaimer: I'm not an educator. While some of these items came from education sources, this is purely my personal goals for my own daughter. This is literally just cut-and-paste from my brainstorming, so sorry for the discombobulated mess! Some items include suggestions on how to work on that concept, and at the bottom is my (incomplete) "wish-list" of supplies to play and learn with.
English/Language Arts:
- Rhyming words
- Telling stories from pictures
- Putting story pictures in order
- makes predictions about what comes next in a story (and why)
- Retelling and recalling story details
- identifies setting, plot, character, conflict (where/when, what, who, why, how)
- empathizing and talking about characters feelings and emotions
- "story stones" (making up stories including certain elements)
- Writes her own (full) name
- Concept of sentences, simple punctuation (period, question mark, comma, quotation mark, etc.)
- Title, author, illustrator, chapters, table of contents,
- basic word types (noun, verb, adjective)... do madlibs together?
- Fact vs. fiction
- Capitalize 1st letter in sentence, and proper nouns.
- Tracing and writing letters and numbers
Math/Numbers:
- shapes (2D and 3D)
- Tell Time
- count to 30 (work in with months), 60 (work into minutes/hours), then 100
- seasons
- months of year?
- days of the week (this method using vitamins in pill organizers makes it so easy!)
- Yesterday, today, tomorrow, last week, other time words (work into vitamin lessons)
- Right and left
- sorting by size, color, shape, type, etc
- more or less
- measuring (length, width, height, weight, volume (liquid measurements), time, temp. etc)
- Money!
- Simple addition and subtraction
- working with a number line
- graphing
- ordinal numbers (first, second, third)
- simple fractions ("cut the cake in half")
- skip counting (2's, 5's, 10's)?
Science:
- Observations and hypotheses (prediction based on observation)
- use magnifying glass to examine items carefully
- 5 senses
- weather
- living vs. non-living (plants, animals, minerals, etc)
- What living things need to survive
- life cycles (like frogs and butterflies)
- classifications (bird, fish, reptile, amphibian, insect, arachnid, mammal, etc)
- plants: from seed (bean sprouts), grow a garden (from sprout to blossom/fruit), roots and root vegetables, different food sources (fruit, vegetable, grain, dairy, nuts/legumes, meat)
- stars, planets and solar systems
- Look at stars, talk about what they are, simple constellations, point out planets, etc.
- waterways (definition of: wells, springs, streams, rivers, lakes/ponds, oceans), currents, etc.
Geography/History:
- Understands different places have different climates, animals, cultures, languages, etc.
- 7 continents (list and locate)
- 4 oceans
- north pole, south pole, equator
- compass directions
- understand the difference between “city, state, country, continent”
- understands “Past, present, future” concepts, and the difference between stories and history
- Use timelines to show progression of time (seed-plant, baby to adult, progress of day, then history, etc)
- Talk about kings, presidents, governors, other authority figures
Life Skills:
- ROUTINE!!!
- Dress self
- button and zipper fastening
- tie shoes
- set and clear table
- help with cleaning tasks (sweeping, dusting, wiping)
- put away books and toys (sorting)
- early folding laundry skills (matching socks, folding towels, etc)
- sort her own laundry???
- Know her own birthday, address, phone number
- Know when to use titles of respect (Mrs., Mr., Pastor, Doctor, etc)
- help in kitchen (stirring, using the manual egg-beater, helping to pour/measure, use the food chopper or wavy chopper)
Gross Motor:
- bounce and catch ball
- skip
- hop on one foot
- climb ladders
Art and fine motor ideas:
- scissor work
- color blends (red+blue=purple, blue+yellow=green, etc)
- pipe cleaner and cheerio threading
- drawing shapes in different sizes
- using shapes to make a picture (start by using pre-cut shapes to make pictures, a-la funny face, eventually working toward drawing in the shapes freehand)
- stencils
- mist plants with spray bottle to build hand strength
- use an eye-dropper for coordination (fun for color mixing games! 2-in-1!)
- tracing in clay, cutting clay
- Recreating pictures, shapes, etc from looking at a model (no directions)
- creative modeling materials (toothpicks and marshmallows/raisins, etc.)
- Looking at and talking about different styles of art
Items/equipment ideas:
- Magnifying glass
- balance scale
- misting spray bottle
- eye dropper
- plastic test tubes?
- Small table/chairs
- low cupboards for her dishes/silverware
- Ideally, Kid-safe kitchen items in reach with a low workspace (hang a low shelf?) (wavy chopper, food chopper, manual egg-beater, plastic dishes/silverware, etc)
- Full-length mirror to hang sideways near ground (for baby), or larger/multiple mirrors (fun for dancing!)
- 5or7-compartmet organizer for laying out outfits for the week
- clothing hamper(s) for K
- trampoline (those small ones for exercising)
- tumbling mats (IKEA!)
- balance beam (again, IKEA!)
- items to climb, hang, swing, and rock on
- Hang a lower closet bar so she can reach her own clothes
- Tension/closet rod and bags with hooks for puzzles and sets of small things
- Chalkboard Paint! (magnetic?)
- Or giant, glossy sheet metal that can be magnet board and dry-erase board (oil drip pan?)
- The Crayola Dry Erase Activity Center is seriously the BEST thing ever! You can slide any 8.5x11 paper under the clear plastic and it becomes a dry-erase board! We use it for coloring, tracing, worksheets, mazes, you name it!
- play money
- letter stamps and stickers
- counting manipulatives (pebbles, bottle caps, glass beads from the dollar store, etc)
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