by Laurie Gill<\/p>\n
Probably one of the most common questions I am asked about Catholic homeschooling curricula concerns preschool. I never knew of anything worth recommending, in part because we did not emphasize preschool in my home. However, one summer I began to feel that my little ones were not getting as much attention as they needed, so I purchased a Little Saints Preschool curriculum at a conference. I used it last year with my three and five-year old sons and this year I am repeating it with my sons ages two and four.<\/p>\n
Little Saints Preschool is arranged into 40 weeks of lessons, roughly correlated to the natural and liturgical calendar. Each week has a theme and three days\u2019 worth of lessons including music, poetry, story books, a Scripture verse, circle games and rhymes, learning games, and art projects. Patterns are included for the games and projects.<\/p>\n
The biggest drawback of the program is that preparing takes lots and lots of time. I spent months in the summer of 1999 making the learning games and preparing the art projects. And even with all that work done, there is still a lot of gathering up to be done for each week\u2019s work. I started by putting everything that would be needed all year in a huge Rubbermaid tub. Every weekend, I fish through the tub to find the materials for the coming week, which I store in a smaller container.<\/p>\n
The children have loved it, and they are so proud to show their father what they have done. I highly recommend this program.<\/p>\n
Little Saints Preschool<\/em> by Cynthia Blum, P.O. Box 19356, Asheville, NC 28805.<\/p>\n Laurie Gill is a professional writer and mother of six.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Laurie Gill Probably one of the most common questions I am asked about Catholic homeschooling curricula concerns preschool. I never knew of anything worth recommending, in part…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}