Many have asked me to do a post on what I’m using for homeschool-preschool. Finally, here it is. The post you’ve all been waiting for! 
First of all, when I say “homeschooling preschoolers” this is a pretty flexible situation. I’m not sitting them down in chairs, with desks in front of them, keeping them on a rigid schedule. They have attention spans of 15 minutes max, after all!
But we do follow a flexible structure as our day goes on and it goes something like this.
6:15 – the daycare kids walk through my door. We cuddle for awhile and then go wake up my daughter.
7:00 -breakfast time and then play
8:00 – Pottytime/diaper changes (I’m potty training 2 out of 3. This ritual goes on all day long!) we do a Bible story and coloring. I’ve been reading from 
The Beginner’s Bible: Timeless Children’s Stories
As I read the story, the kids color from this book 
The Gigantic Coloring Book of Bible Stories
After coloring, we try to do some sort of exercise, like jumping and dancing to music or throwing balls or doing a GAIAM kid yoga tape my SIL just sent me. We’re bound inside because we have a busy road and one child likes to run. While she runs toward the road, another runs towards the creek. So sadly, I can’t take them out to get their energy out.
9:00 We then work on shapes and colors or Sign Language. Or we do crafts.
For Sign Language we use 
Sign2Me – ASL Flashcards: Beginners Series – Quick Start Pack (Incl. ASL + English + Spanish) (American Sign Language) (Spanish Edition)
For colors and shapes we use things like:
My First Touch & Feel Picture Cards: Colors & Shapes (MY 1ST T&F PICTURE CARDS)
Hands-On Learning: Color and Shape Puzzles (Scholastic Hands-On Learning)
We also love Melissa and Doug puzzles for this: 
The kids are quickly getting to a point where they will be able to do worksheets from this book as well: 
Preschool Skills: Colors and Shapes (Flash Kids Preschool Skills)
Our crafts are varied. They might include water color painting or gluing shapes on shapes in diminishing size, to teach one particular shape. Many times, I just surf cool sites to find my ideas. Sites like:
Kaboose
BillyBear4kids
ColoringCastle
First-School
Preschool Express
StepbyStep
My most invaluable resource for crafts is this book 
First Art : Art Experiences for Toddlers and Twos
We also love Kumon books! Best money I’ve ever spent!
Let’s Cut Paper! (Kumon First Steps Workbooks)
Let’s Sticker & Paste! (Kumon First Steps Workbooks)
And then, some days, I just come up with my own crazy idea. Like the other day with my black, yarn sheep. The kids loved it! Unfortunately, that exhausted my creativity for the year. lol.
10:00 is Seasame Stree time (God bless Elmo!)
11:00 I do some one-on-one with each child, as I wrote about on Mama Buzz, highlighting them with their specific interests and/or learning style.
11:45 Lunch prep
12:00 Lunch
12:30 I read them to sleep, usually a classic like Charlotte’s Web or Wind in the Willows.
After nap, if the daycare kids are here until evening, we do snack and then they play, watch Winnie the Pooh or Dora and cranky pants days, or we do more crafts or more reading time. 
If the daycare kids are here for the night, this continues on until bedtime. If they go home at some point, I usually get outside with my daughter for fresh air, and do various things with her that I can’t do with all three, like have her help me with the dishes or bake something.
So there you have it. One month late, but full of good resourceful links for you!
