Little Lambs' Primer

When I was expecting my fourth baby I suffered nasty morning sickness.  Since nearly every time I stood up I had to make a trip to the bathroom, I spent a lot of time lying down.  With three preschool aged children who needed to be occupied at the same time, I became creative [as creative as I could considering the circumstances :)].  I kept a paper and pen handy and during that time I drew letters, numbers, shapes and etc. on the paper and then went over them with the children.  The eldest of these three is a mentally challenged child who was kept busy with this, but didn't retain much.  The next child, 3 1/2 at the time, learned her letters, numbers and counting, and shapes, even complicated ones such as trapezoid and parallelogram.

That was aver 15 years ago.  Now I have taken that idea and transformed it into a 'primer' for my current preschoolers.  This notebook does not have consumable activities for the children.  Rather, it has reviewable pages that include the alphabet [upper and lower case], vowels, consonants, numbers, shapes, relative relationships [long-short, big-small], and etc.  There are also pages where some letters or numbers are missing so the child can fill in the blank.  

Repetion solidifies concepts in the brain.  Some children need more repetion than others before they completely grasp something.  By keeping these pages in their own notebook, we can look them over as many times as necessary for each child to understand the concepts well.  Then, the occassional activity page in the working notebook allows each child to  'prove' their understanding.

Check out the freebies for some of these pages.

Praying God's care for you.