Putting together your own preschool curriculum can be accomplished in a variety of ways. In broad sense there is option of purchasing a homeschool preschool program from one of many preschool curriculum providers.Take on approach of an everyday life experience with your preschooler. This is accomplished in a much less structured avenue. Lots of reading to your preschooler and exploring life and their world together emphasizing what they enjoy doing while they are learning. If you’re a bit stuck in middle with what you prefer being a bit more on structured side of a packaged preschool curriculum but your budget is definitely more in line with latter, then why not design your own preschool curriculum!
Start with a rough outline of what your learning goals are for your preschooler. There are websites available with criteria that will help you with evaluating your child’s strengths and weaknesses. Just do a bit of searching on early childhood educational development evaluation criteria and you’ll find checklists that you can use.
After you have determined your learning objectives for your preschooler it is now time to search web for some ideas for upcoming school year. At this young age a great tool to use for your topics and focus is right on calendar! Use various seasons and holidays to develop broad theme type of learning material. At this age learning is much more fun for child and easy for you if you keep overall environment colorful and relevant to what is going on in their life.