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Should I Homeschool my Preschool Child?

February 15, 2019

As your child enters the preschool stage, panic may start to set in as the question looms, “Should I homeschool my preschooler?” While it’s true that there are benefits to homeschooling your preschooler, there are also legitimate concerns on focusing too much on academics at an early age.

Here are some points to consider when answering the question on whether you should homeschool a preschooler. Every child has unique learning abilities, and that’s the beauty of being a parent — you make the decision that is perfect for your child!

Preschool Homeschooling is already LIVE at Home

Believe it or not, preschool is already happening in your home. Whether they are independently playing with blocks, putting together puzzles, or you are singing the ‘ABC’ song, they are already living in an educational environment. It’ doesn’t have to be a formal or classroom setting.

Homeschooling allows the flexibility to what works best for every situation. Plus, it can be tailored to changing circumstances at any time. Remember, your child is getting a one-on-one learning experience with positive surroundings.

Parents are in control of Education

Whether you want your child to get dirty all day outside or quietly sit while drawing at the table, you are in charge! Preschool kids need to learn to do both. They can explore and discover the possibilities outside, and practice control while sitting quietly in their chair doing hands on activities.

Preschool Homeschooling is Low Cost Education

Since parents are in charge of education, they also determine the homeschool budget. If you would send your child to a private preschool, you’re forking over hundreds of dollars. At home, however, you can buy free and low cost supplies online and at stores. In addition, you can preschool your child for just a few dollars. And, I’ll show you how below.

Preschool Families have a Flexible Schedule

Families who like to travel or have inconsistent schedules, enjoy the flexibility when preschooling their child. One perk is going on vacation during the off peak season — it’s affordable and less crowded. In addition, this gives the family more time together and opportunities for field trips and appointments during the day.

Based on these key points, have you answered the question — should I homeschool my preschooler? Every family must answer this question based on their situation, but here are some questions to ask:

  1. Am I able to carve out less than an hour to focus on teaching preschool activities?
  2. Is following instructions and print out worksheets for my child an issue for me?
  3. Can I provide homeschool materials for my child like paper, crayons, colored pencils, markers, and pencils?
  4. Do I have a clean environment for my child to work at like a desk or a space at the table?

If the answers to all these questions is a resounding ‘yes’, you may have the answer. If any of your answers are no, you may consider what it would take to reach these goals if you are serious about homeschooling.

Hundreds of Free Preschool Themes for Homeschooling

Is my child ready for preschool? Find out if your child can begin with these 5 developmental signs.

For children ready to begin pre-reading skills, parents have the choice to begin with basics. In just a few minutes a day, your child can begin practicing writing their letters and numbers. There are so many available tools online with affordable prices for budget minded families!

Learn Letters & Sounds with our Alphabet Curriculum

Preschool Pre Reading Resources

If you are considering homeschooling your preschooler,some subjects to prepare for are reading, writing, and math. Homeschooling during the preschooling stage is a perfect opportunity to evaluate your child’s readiness for reading. Some children are motivated to read early while others are not. Parents have the choice to delay those children who need more time before beginning. This is completely normal for some students to be ready while others are not.

Wondering where to get started with homeschooling preschool? There are a TON of free and frugal online resources including preschool printables that will save you a ton of money!

With just a little prep using a 5 step process, your child will know all his letters! In this article, I share with you the easy stages involved in starting using letter a week, that’s it!

Develop Fine Motor Skills

Build PreWriting Skills with our Fine Motor Activity Book

Preschool is a good time to develop those fine motor muscles that students will use for writing. It is important to strengthen these small motor muscles in preparation for the amount of writing students will be expected to complete in the coming years,

Preschool Pre Math Resources

Now that we’ve discussed readiness for reading, is your child ready for counting? Try our number a week program that is a no-prep, print and go lesson plan coordinating wonderfully with the letter a week program.

Homeschooling your preschool child takes just a few minutes a day. It’s a great time to assess whether education at home is right for your schedule, lifestyle, and family. With just a little preparation and organizational skills, you’ll be a homeschooling parent before you know it!

Would you like more information about homeschooling? I have a great resource that will help you equip yourself to be a Homeschool Ninja!

Filed Under: Numbers, Preschool Readiness, Worksheets Tagged With: homeschool preschool, preschool readiness, preschool resources

St. Patrick's Day Activities for Preschoolers

If you are planning a preschool lesson for St. Patrick’s day we have some fantastic free and low-cost resources to share with you! We’ve got a ton of St. Patrick’s Day Preschool Printables featuring everything from St. Patrick’s Day coloring pages, crafts, worksheets, games, activities, fine motor skill sets, learning center mats, science experiments and more! You can bundle these fun activities together to create your own preschool lesson plan!

St. Patrick’s Day Preschool Printables

Rainbow Coloring Pages

These coloring pages feature color words for the rainbow. Children practice handwriting and word recognition with these coloring activity pages.

St. Patrick’s Day Maze Activity Pages

A cute set of St. Patrick’s Day mazes and coloring pages for kids. Each page features easy to solve mazes for young children as well as some cute thematic character to color in.

St. Patrick’s Day Crafts for Preschoolers

Rainbow Tracing Worksheet

This is a set of weather-related tracing worksheets you can use for a weather unit. The rainbow worksheet would be great to pair with your St. Patrick’s Day Preschool lessons.

St. Patrick’s Day Cut & Paste Craft

Students work on their fine motor skills by cutting and pasting the hearts to assemble into a four-leaf clover. Turn this into a fun fingerprinting craft by printing on cardstock and having students paint the leaves with green fingerpaint.

Four Leaf Clover Pattern Block Mat

This is a free printable four-leaf clover mat you can use to build spatial reasoning skills. Students use pattern blocks to plan and complete their build. Laminate for durability. Check out our Pattern Block Bundle for more!.

Shamrock Scissor Skills

This fun shamrock scissor skills worksheet is part of our March Fine Motor Activity Pack! We’ve paired this activity with 60 pages of fun, interactive fine motor activity pages for St. Patricks Day and Spring themes for March.

Preschool Math With Lucky Charms

This activity pack includes a variety of math printables, games, and activities. Math activities include counting, sorting, framing, adding, graphing, and pattern making. Click Here

St. Patrick’s Day Geoboard Pictures

This Geoboard Activity Pack includes a variety of thematic activities and worksheets for St. Patrick’s Day and other holidays, seasons and more! With simple, differentiated learning opportunities, our Geoboard Activity pack will soon become one of your favorite spring resources.

Colorful Coins: St. Patrick’s Day Shapes

Students work on shape identification with this free worksheet filled with 12 different shapes; triangle, circle, heart, square, star, trapezoid, octagon, oval, hexagon, rhombus, diamond, and rectangle.

St. Patricks Day Preschool Games

St. Patrick’s Day Number Bond Game

This is a simple yet fun game for children learning their number bonds. Children work on number bonds to make 5 and number bonds to make 10. Use with the coins provided or laminate and use a dry erase marker.

St. Patrick’s Day Pattern Cards

This is a set of eight different pattern cards with different sequences (AABB, ABC, ABAB etc..) Children use gold coins (print on yellow paper) to make the patterns.

Color Science for Kids

Fine Motor Activities for St. Patrick’s Day

March Fine Motor Activity Pack

60 thematic, hands-on activities to build fine motor control skills in March! These thematic activity pages are perfect for your March learning centers. Great for early finishers, take-home resources, or as a tutoring binder you can bring on the go!

St. Patrick’s Day Activities for Preschoolers

What could be luckier than this sparking green St. Patricks Day Homemade Playdough Recipe. Easy to make, just a handful of kitchen ingredients and a pinch of glitter from the craft box and you have a wonderful seasonal activity for the kids to enjoy for St. Patrick’s Day.

St. Patrick’s Day Mazes

Looking for some challenging St. Patrick’s Day activities for your preschoolers? Try these free St. Patrick’s Day Mazes and activity pages to build logic and reasoning skills. Each maze features a fun follow up activity, such as writing the colors of the rainbow, or counting the coins.

St. Patrick’s Day Bible Printables

We’ve got a ton of free Bible printables for St. Patrick’s Day on our sister site. You’ll find crafts, games, worksheets, bookmarks Bible verse cards, take-home sheets and more. These St. Patrick’s Day Bible Crafts help your students learn key Bible truths about the trinity and heavenly treasures.

St. Patrick’s Day Math Activity Pack

Preschool Math with Lucky Charms (TM)

This math activity pack is filled with hands-on learning opportunities for preschool students. Simply pick up a box of Lucky Charms (TM) and print this set for instant math learning centers, games, worksheets and more!

St. Patrick’s Day Science Experiments

Experiments for St. Patrick’s Day

Smart Start Science is a new and engaging series of Low-Prep, Hands-On experiments and activities designed for K-2 students. This specific pack, “Experiments for St. Patrick’s Day” includes five complete experiments and follow up activities that are sure to add a little color to your classroom.

St. Patrick’s Day Books for Preschoolers

St. Patrick’s Day is March 17th and it’s a great time to get a little festive in your preschool classroom.  Using this theme as inspiration, you can add in some “lucky” fun with shamrocks, horseshoes, and maybe even a sneaky leprechaun.  Be sure to read children the true meaning of St. Patrick’s Day, as it’s important for children to know why we celebrate holidays.


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