Tot School

I started tot school or homeschooling a toddler because I wanted to make use of my time since I am a stay at home Mom.  It would be really to get him into a childcare center or let him watch TV or do free play all day.  Since Mavi doesn’t go to daycare centers he isn’t exposed to socializing with other kids, crafts, songs and play.  Why pay for a playschool when I can do these stuff by myself, right?  Therefore, I made it my responsibility to homeschool him and do all these things from an early age.

Unknown to some, I don’t make my son sit at home and do school and studying all day everyday.  In fact, we probably spend about an hour or two a day doing scheduled and planned activities.  Mavi’s attention span is very short at the moment and sometimes, he’s not in the mood for tot school and there are times that he just keeps on asking for more play (meaning, tot school).

I’ve been giving him a lot of things to do for the past weeks and I was thinking that’s becoming too much for him. Actually, at first, I based my schedule on the Letter of the Week… and later on tried to modify it. 

So here’s a much simpler and lax tot school schedule for me and Mavi.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Crafts Day	Colors/Shapes	Letter of the Week/ Bible Story	Numbers	Household Chores/Montessori Friday

Monday is Crafts Day.  This will be based on the theme for the week.  The theme may range from colors, animals, relationships, objects, nature, creating something for pretend play, etc.

Tuesday is Colors and Shapes.  I wanted to revert back to the original idea of Letter of the Week, that is to do colors every other week, that is, to alternate between colors and shapes.

Wednesday is Letter of Week.  Aside from doing a letter craft, I wanted to add the familiarization of at most 2 words or things that starts with the letter of the week.  Again, the theme will also be based on the letter of the week.

Thursday is Numbers.  Will just go between 1 to 20 at the moment, this includes familiarization of the number symbol, the idea of counting and eventually learning to read or familiarized with the number word.

Friday is household chores/Montessori activities.  Actually we are doing Montessori activities almost everyday, whenever Mavi doesn’t feel to do something for tot school or whenever he asks for more activities.  I would like to add he household chores here though.  I think it’s a pretty good idea to start exposing kids to chores as early as possible.  Anyway, he’s been showing his interest in washing the dishes and doing laundry, so I’d better get him involved.

Well, there you go!  I didn’t include the outdoor activities or include our park day visits because we usually do it in random.  There’s no specific day because we depend too much on the weather.  But anyway, I will try to take pictures of our outdoor activities.  I don’t take pictures of him anymore whenever we are out because it’s so difficult to take a photo of him :-)

So that’s all for now. I’m currently creating my schedules for the whole month of September and once done, I will try to share it with you.