When u start home schooling your child before he/she actually has to goto school,what do u teach 1st?
As someone who did home pre-school their children, I would suggest starting simply with basic shapes and colors. Making games of this works best, play is work for a child of this age. No sitting at a desk as yet. As suggested in the first answer, begin to build the love of reading by taking them to library and READ, READ, READ! Buy a colorful ABC chart and numbers chart and hang them on the wall. Play with your children at "match the numbers and letters" with flashcards. Watch tv with them, yes.. tv.. but WITH them.. there are wonderful educational programs that reinforce the very skills that you are wanting them to learn. Remember Sesame Street? How about Between the Lions? If you have a computer (most of us do these days) there are great preschool CD-Roms out there that also reinforce the skills that you want to teach. My kids were "old hands" on the computer by age 3! The key here is that you aren’t parking them in front of the TV or computer and letting it serve as a baby sitter, you’re with them serving as a teacher. You also don’t want to forget skills like tying their shoes and buttoning and zipping… this can be done on dolls during playtime. Social skills that they will be missing out on since they’re not attending an outside preschool have to be considered as well. Finding a playgroup is important. This is a fantastic time that you will never forget. Enjoy it!!
This is a very helpful website:
http://www.homeschoolingadventures.com/preschool.html
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Anything you want. When a child doesn’t know anything, anything you teach will be progress. But if you want to get them ready for school, you would probably want to teach them things like their colours, basic shapes, how to count to 10, the letters of the alphabet. (Which one you start with is up to you. You’ll find that it’s probably best to work a bit on each topic each time that you see the children, but anything that you do with them is better than what they are currently getting.) You would also want to read a lot to them; teach them to enjoy hearing stories, motivate them to want to learn to read, and expose them to new knowledge in the stories that you read. Read to them about different careers, fairy stories, stories about different periods in history (knights, or mummies, or pirates) or different places in the world, nonfiction about science or famous people, etc. The more varied the stories, the better base of knowledge they’ll have to help them do well in school. Also, they’
I would just see where they are both at, as far as what skills they already know. If you go on-line, there are a ton of websites that will tell you what a child should be able to do at each age. Remember though that they are just basic guidelines and the bare minimum! Once you know where they are at, then you can go from there. You can do all sorts of fun things with them! Again, there are LOTS of websites for ideas!
Technically, that would not be homeschooling, since you are not related to the children. Even if you don’t get paid for doing this, you would still need to check with your state department of education about credentials. If nothing else, you would be providing childcare and that is regulated by state. If the parents of the kids did not approach you about helping with the kids, I would strongly suggest not to impose because you will end up becoming an enemy. They will resent you, no matter how good your intentions are, because you’re essentially saying that they are not good enough to take care of their kids and provide education for them. If you really want to help, offer to babysit the kids since they are pre-K, and then make sure that you do something fun and educational to help them jump-start their learning.
