With Sugar, her preschool years were laden with playtime in- and out-of-doors, art, cutting, pasting, play doh, story books, laughter, silliness, naps, Sesame Street, Mr Rogers, coloring, painting, picking flowers, swinging at the park, on an on.
Sparkler needs more. sigh. Doesn't she know how I feel about Charlotte Mason? So, this year has been a bit of trial-and-error in finding that balance between childhood and "preschool".
She sits in with Sugar on our daily Bible stories and she sometimes feels stirred to create her own notebook page from that day's lesson. Sometimes not. She voraciously listens to our read aloud selections. She immerses herself in all things art. She is a wonder at hidden pictures and word searches (yet she is dsygraphic, or maybe because she is dysgraphic).
She is pure delight.
She desperately wants to write like her sissie, but she writes in mirror image so she becomes disheartened. Hurts my heart, too.
I went out on a limb and purchased the Rod & Staff 4/5 preschool program for all of $35 with shipping. I figured if it flopped or if
Oh, how I love R&S. Did I say that out loud? Is CM listening? eek. Truly, it is precious inasmuch as a curriculum can be sweet. This child loves "to do school". Worksheets make her somehow feel school-y. It's her fabric, so my job is to set aside my hopes and expectations and let her flourish.
Rod & Staff 4/5 Preschool
Adventures with Books
Bible Pictures to Color and Bible Stories to Read
Counting with Numbers
Do It Carefully
Everywhere We Go
Finding the Answers
Going On Eagerly
Hearing and Helping
Inside and Outside
Of course, this is tempered with plenty of the above-mentioned fun of Sugar's completely non-schoolish preschool days and lots and lots of stories. Our MFW Preschool 4/5 package is also the near-perfect program that rounds out her days, and includes Bugsy, too.
Because of Him.
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