First Week Of Official Curriculum

Well this week has been exciting so far. Monday we started our Official Curriculum for Preschoolers by Horizons (published by Alpha Omega Publications). Edward is able to write the Letter A both upper and lower case on his own. He is able to pick a upper case A out of a word. He is reading a pre-reader book all by himself (called Polar Opposites..it has pictures with words below like Big and Little, Cold and Hot). He is so excited that he can do this. This week we are also doing the colors :Red, Blue and Green. Triangle is our shape of the week and 1 is our number. Our memory verse for the next two weeks is Genesis 1:1. Edward is learning that God is always listening and that He made the world and us. He really likes the globe of the world and he knows where Kansas is on the globe and can find it if you twirl the globe around away from the US. It is just amazing to watch him learning and catching on to things. Next week I will begin supplementing his curriculum with other activities. I needed to know basically how long the main curriculum will take daily, that seems to be about 2 to 2 1/2 hours. He is also learning self space and general space. Name recognition (he pretty can pick his name out of any list of words, he has been able to do this for over a year now since he has been "writing" his name for a while now). He has also been learning about Families, Fathers. Today we learned about Firefighters and Police Officers. Of course that included the use of 911. We took Edward to the Kansas State Fair this past weekend, of course it was used as a learning opportunity. We didn't get to see all what we wanted, so weather permitting we plan to go back this coming weekend to see the rest. Edward started Monart last Friday. He says he doesn't like it but it has only been 1 week so far, I asked him to give it a chance. If he still doesn't like it after this session, we will hold off on another session until next year. He started Kindermusik today. He seems to like his new teacher. They are doing the Kindermusik See What I saw curriculum this session. There are 4 other little boys and 1 little girl in his class, only 3 of the little boys beside Edward showed up today. The only thing that I am not to thrilled about is that they cut down the 15 week curriculum to 12 weeks because some parents felt inconvenienced by the length of the 15 week curriculum. I hope that next session they will offer a shorter curriculum for those who like that but also a original 15 week curriculum for those of us who want our children to get the most out of the experiences.