Tot School Curriculum!

We're almost ready to begin Tot School. Our first session is scheduled to officially begin on April 12th but we're still awaiting some of our supplies from Oriental Trading so we'll see what happens.

I've finalized our curriculum which is a based on David Gettman's "Basic Montessori", "Tot Tray" ideas from 1+1+1=1 and the free "Brightly Beaming Toddler" curriculum from Letter Of The Week. We're also using "Before Five In A Row" for our reading program. I know it seems like a lot but I've also created a week-by-week schedule for the entire year so it's pretty simple to follow. I don't expect that we'll do everything as planned (since this will be based on MunCee's interests), but it will help keep ME organized; that and I'm also TOTALLY addicted to spreadsheets so this was actually a very fun project for me ;-)!

So, here's our basic curriculum with some of the things we hope to cover during months 13 thru 24. We will have two 1-hour sessions per day as follows:

Circle Time (~15 Minutes):

      Session 1 - Weather, Calendar, Learning Songs, Nursery Rhymes

      Session 2 - Action Songs, Finger Plays, Sign Language

Learning Activities (~30 Minutes): 

      Monday - Math

           (Numbers, Shapes, Sorting, Matching)

      Tuesday - Sensorial

           (Colors, Stacking, Mirror Mirror, Senses)

      Wednesday - Language

           (Letters, Writing, Reading (BFIAR), Opposites)

      Thursday - Practical Life

           (Self-Care, Tidying Up, Emptying/Filling, Pouring/Transferring)

      Friday - Cultural

           (Arts & Crafts, Music, Nature Study)

Exercise (~15 Minutes)

      Gross Motor - Walking, Climbing, Pushing, Jumping, Throwing

I'm currently preparing our learning activity trays for the first two weeks. My plan is to repeat the same activity in both sessions to reinforce the material; not sure if this will bore MunCee so we'll try it and make adjustments if she loses interest.

That's really it; for now anyway!