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How to Know Your Child Is Ready for Reading Lessons
Teaching your child to read can seem daunting, but if you look for these signs, you'll know when your child is ready.
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Category Preschool
Posts and articles about Charlotte Mason’s approach to the preschool years.
What Your Preschooler Really Needs
Here is what your preschooler really needs from you between ages 3 and 5, and what will truly prepare your preschooler for first grade.
How to Nurture Your Preschooler While Homeschooling Older Children
Charlotte Mason told us to give preschoolers a full six years to explore before formal lessons. But how can you fit that in while you're doing formal lessons with older children?
What Charlotte Mason Preschool Looks Like
Charlotte Mason homeschooling is incredibly effective for a preschool child. Here's an overview of what to focus on and what to expect as you homeschool your preschooler the Charlotte Mason way.
How to Spot a Great Picture Book
Sonya is joined by Sarah from Read-Aloud Revival to talk about how you can spot a great picture book to read to your little ones.
Habits Q & A: Habit Training with Young Children
What can you do to establish good habits in the toddler and preschool years?
Charlotte Mason Science for Preschoolers
Sonya is joined by Karen Smith to talk about how we can introduce science concepts to our preschoolers the Charlotte Mason way.
Your Questions Answered: Homeschooling with Preschoolers in the Mix
One of the biggest challenges a homeschool mom faces is trying to get schoolwork done with preschoolers in the mix. My friends Jenn Faas and Laura Pitney are here to help me discuss this today. Sonya: Between all of us,…
Top 10 (or 20) Picture Books for Preschoolers
Today I’m sharing some of my absolute favorite picture books for 3 to 5 year olds. These are picture books that you will want to read to your child again and again. These are books that, if your preschooler grabs…
How to Choose a Good Picture Book
Do a quick search on Amazon for picture books, and you are suddenly faced with more than 60,000 titles. Think of it: 60,000 picture books to choose from. That’s a lot of books! In fact, if you could stack all…
New Preschool Resource: Our Preschool Life
I talk to mamas all over the country who are feeling pressure with their preschoolers. They’re being pressured to push academics, to focus on reading and writing and math facts with their three-, four-, and five-year-olds. Perhaps you’re the mother…
Your Questions Answered: Preschool Activities
The biggest job that a preschool child has is to explore his surroundings and make sense of the world around him. As he uses his five senses, he’s forming crucial connections in his brain. And those connections will help him…
Preschool Priorities
Young children spend the first five or six years of their lives busily making sense out of life around them. Their brains are on overdrive: observing, categorizing, comparing, discriminating, problem solving, experimenting, testing, assimilating. For example, let’s say you hand…
Homeschooling with Preschoolers in the Mix
Certainly one of the biggest challenges facing a homeschool mom or dad is trying to teach with little ones underfoot. You might have laid out the best plans in the world, but those plans might never become a reality if…
Teaching Beginning Reading: Subject by Subject, Part 13
When my oldest child was a little one, the thought of teaching her how to read hovered in my mind as a huge challenge. I don’t remember waking up at night, wondering if I would be able to teach her…