Tot School/ Preschool Homeschool Curriculum for my 2 year old

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Today I am sharing my tot school and preschool homeschool curriculum for my 2 year old. In order to share how to successfully preschool at home.
Some of these links are affiliate, however they don't cost you anything extra
Usborne Lift the Flap Shapes: amzn.to/2meR8vD
Usborne Lift the Flap Numbers: amzn.to/2m5joRu
Usborne Lift the Flap Colors: amzn.to/2nFionh
Usborne Lift the Flap ABC's: amzn.to/2lEpc46
Usborne Lift the Flap Opposites: amzn.to/2meXzyN
Usborne Lift the Flap First Math: amzn.to/2nEQLuy
Usborne Lift the Flap Word Book: amzn.to/2nFlffZ
Usborne Lift the Flap Sizing and Measuring: amzn.to/2mfblS0
What Your Preschooler Needs to Know: amzn.to/2nHz1yF
What Your Preschooler Needs to Know Activity Book 1: amzn.to/2nHCNrP
What Your Preschooler Needs to Know Activity Book 2: amzn.to/2mfhqhi
Torchlight Curriculum: torchlightcurriculum.com/torc...
We are a secular homeschool family that focuses on great books, great games and togetherness. I have two young (suspected) gifted kids and I try to meet my children’s needs where they are and help them pursue their passions. I share all about our homeschooling journey.
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@jessicak5370 3 жыл бұрын

Because of your recommendation, we are on week 3 of what your kindergartener needs to know workbook. My daughter and I are absolutely loving it!! Its perfect for her! Even my 5 yo had fun retelling the story with the punch outs! So glad I saw your video! Thank you!

@BeeRavie 3 жыл бұрын

You need way more subscribers!!! Super helpful during these Covid times, thank you!!

@homeschooledtots3761 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for these great recommendations!! We are starting homeschool early, too. I feel I kind of "winged it" with my now 3-year-old when he was 2. I want to be more intentional this time with my daughter who is 19 months. It's amazing how eager they are to learn everything so early!

@mariahernadez7523 4 жыл бұрын

Our tot school is based on shelf work, outdoor learning, building language and pretend play ❤ loved your video!

@LoveLearningEveryday 4 жыл бұрын

Oh awesome! That sounds amazing. It is hard for me to encompass everything included in young kids learning just because they are literally learning all the time. Haha. I should have included outdoor stuff and pretend play in this video because my kids love both those things. Haha. Do you do anything specific either outdoors or for pretend play?

@katikulcsar8500 3 жыл бұрын

Super helpful!

@LoveLearningEveryday 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! ❤️

@brandibelicek1795 4 жыл бұрын

I got those activity books for my 3 year old after I saw the other video you mentioned them in. He really thinks they are fun and are a lot of activities for the money. We are planning to use Torchlight PreK next year. I love the focus on emotions and want to have my older daughter sit in with us. I noticed most of the weekly books are available as videos on YT if that helps you. :)

@LoveLearningEveryday 4 жыл бұрын

Oh awesome, I am glad you like it. ❤️ and I think you will like it. So far it is nice. I had some of the emotional intelligence things already but I like that it tells me when to do it, because sometimes stuff gets pushed aside. I think it is particularly fun doing it with both my kids. I am glad I decided to do it with them together. And awesome thank you! I always forget to check there! Thank you! ❤️

@briannaeveritt8757 4 жыл бұрын

I wish I could still find the what you’re preschooler needs to know activity books

@louisemunro9437 4 жыл бұрын

I'm so excited for your year! I'm just gearing up for a bit of totschool with my youngest. He's not happy that mummy has all this intentional time with his sister and not with him. We teach shapes with a simple shape sorter "that's a square, it goes in the square hole" and colours with a laminated matching game styled off Jady A's learning folder. Worked a treat with my daughter and my boy is bursting at the seams to do it too. Mr Snail's Counting Trails was the book that taught my daughter numbers, with finger trails for getting the shape in her mind. It will be coming back off the shelf this year for my boy. He's not interested in the letters yet but perhaps the whole alphabet on the puzzle board is off-putting for him - maybe we'll just start with a few and see how that goes this year. No goals for him beyond progress haha. You've got such a handle on things and I hope all goes so very well with your family this year!

@LoveLearningEveryday 4 жыл бұрын

I hope everything goes well with you too! Those all sound great I will have to check out that snail book. My daughter is a lot different than my son was. I never had to teach him letters. He just knew them from super why I guess. But my daughter is the most stubborn person like she will insist a p is a b or something like that and there is no getting through to her. 😂 she definitely excels with music and memorization though. Her poetry memorization is on point. Hah. How old is your son again? He is like 1 right?

@louisemunro9437 4 жыл бұрын

@@LoveLearningEveryday that's just like my daughter! She was telling me the other day that it was called octover not October and I was like well thank goodness she knows her phonics because I can take her to the calendar and sound it out with her. And she was like oh, it's October, okay. But she wouldn't believe me if I told her haha. The P/b thing is because an upside down chair is still a chair. Orientation only matters for letters and numbers and it's a tough concept to get. I had my daughter colour only the P's in a page full of P/b/d/q's. She caught on after a time. He's 15 months, yes. But he's making inroads into vocabulary and putting two words together a lot and since I plan in calendar years, 2020 will end with him as a 2.5yo so very gently roll in some intentional time with him and the shape sorter by Christmas and move on when he's ready. I've never thought 10mins with mummy talking about the shapes in a shape sorter or puzzle as an impingement on a kid's right to play all day. I spend more time than that reminding him to chew his food before he swallows haha.

@lianna1869 4 жыл бұрын

When you started pulling out the usbornes: "Wow she's got the set.... Omg it keeps coming..." 😂 We're also using the common core andI think it's great as well. I had seen it before, but the price kind of knocked me over, but watching your last video on it changed my mind and I purchased it. Great choice! We use the common core, mathematical reasoning, and blossom and root early years 1 (I don't necessarily recommend it though because I feel it's lacking in the hard subjects like math, reading, etc. Every week I have to search for my own work sheets and activities to pair with the books and consider what concepts might be explored. She wrote the same blurbs on many subjects for each week, so a lot of wasted space. Her "recipe section" is literally 8-10 lines of "Do a recipe with your child this week!" without actually giving you suggestions. Every week it says this. I was quite frankly insulted by this. If I could jump right into BYL 0 next year, I would, but the readings are quite dense for a second language 4 year old. So I'll probably end up getting the second blossom and root early years because it seems to be the only prek literature based program that has accessible books. We also do a mix of jady a. And homeschool of bel air recommended curriculum and activities for letters and totschool things. And we will slowly, over many years, go through the exploring nature with children curriculum. Currently I just use the reading list and some activities, but next year we can maybe start getting into the science-bit of it.m

@LoveLearningEveryday 4 жыл бұрын

Sorry I am taking so long to reply, I got really behind and you seem to have a great plan, thanks for telling me about blossom and root, I would have been so upset by that as well. I do not like having a bunch of extra waste papers in curriculum. That makes sense about build your library’s choices. I wish Emily created a pre-K too. Also I didn’t think about torchlight being pretty much impossible for people living outside the US. I wouldn’t have thought about that before. And I love both of those ladies stuff, I am just not particularly crafty or disciplined with finishing that kind of stuff on time. I think I had stuff laying out on the table to be laminated for a month. 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️ so I just stick to the already done usborne books haha. I was going to get exploring nature with children, how do you like it?

@lianna1869 4 жыл бұрын

@@LoveLearningEveryday enwc is wonderful, mainly because it will work for many years. I think she did an excellent job of having easy picture books and dense science in the same package. Her poems and art appreciation selections are very complementary to the week's theme, and each week can easily be built upon to build entire unit studies. I highly recommend it, but I wouldn't suggest trying to power through the whole curriculum in one year. It seems to be designed to circle back many times as the seasons change I also found myself sitting in piles of activities and moveable parts! I decided it's easiest to just work out of ready made bookswhen possible and then the rest of the learning will just happen through reading, outdoors, etc

@TheBookCourt 4 жыл бұрын

Please do an update on Torchlight when you’ve completed it. I was thinking about using it next year for Kindergarten. The only thing that concerns me is having to find all the books, since my library never seems to have what we need.

@LoveLearningEveryday 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah that would probably be difficult. I have heard many of the books are hard to find in libraries. I have been able to get all the books and all the recommended books for the first two weeks, however the third week my library only had one so I just put some other dinosaur books on hold and hopefully that will be fine. I don’t mind making substitutions for picture books but in later levels I won’t want to waste my time on chapter book substitutions, I would just hate to get a dud. I think it could definitely be a great fit, It just depends if you want to follow if exactly and how much money you want to spend. As of right now I definitely plan on, at the very least, loosely using it all the way through.

@TheBookCourt 4 жыл бұрын

Love Learning Everyday my library is just not that great. I ended up having to buy all the books I wanted for our Native American Unit because they didn’t have any. And I was looking into “Around the World with Picture Books,” and they didn’t have most of those either. I’m just glad I can always get used books online so cheap. lol

@MsPink0769 4 жыл бұрын

Any advice for 22 month olds? My daughter will be 2 first week of February. And she says around 20 words. I muat admit Im not doing a good job at teaching her. But I feel lost as to where to begin.

@LoveLearningEveryday 4 жыл бұрын

Oh I am sure you are doing great already! She sounds very verbal, that is awesome! What I like to do at that age is just read and talk to her and do simple puzzles. My daughter was interested in those usborne lift the flap books at that age and they are so educational so I would also suggest getting maybe the shapes one. But honestly you are probably doing more than enough!

@MsPink0769 4 жыл бұрын

@@LoveLearningEveryday Thank you! It didnt occur to me to get the flap books. She is now repeating a lot and is suddenly using two word sentences. Her grandma is also teaching her Spanish. I defiantly worry too easily. Ha ha!