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Post by kellyds on Jan 11, 2009 22:54:24 GMT -5
You may know that we homeschool. Joshua turns four next month and I've been sort of winging it with my own preschool program for him. Look at this cool thing I found online! It has a calendar of suggested activities for every day of the year, as well as readers, worksheets, and other printable stuff. I love the readers, because the pictures are actual photographs instead of something cartoony or a line drawing. Joshua has trouble recognizing a drawing of, for example, an apple . . . but he can recognize a photo of an apple. These printable books have a photo of a "thing" and the word for the "thing" printed beneath. I haven't explored the whole site, but what I've seen is awesome! I'm firing up my printer now! ;D You have to register to gain access, but it's completely free. www.dsfoc.org/learning_program_registration.php |
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Post by Jackie on Jan 12, 2009 9:37:00 GMT -5
Kelly I have not read the site yet...but you mentioned books with real photos. You are right...our kids and all kids learning language early in life relate to those kind of books best!
Years ago there were very few of these sort of picture books. I love pretty childrens publications and always sought out Victorian or beautifully illustrated books for kids. Then at age 3 Emily was exposed to one of the first reading programs for kids with DS where they used family pictures with labels. I then realized the ERROR of my ways...LOL and switched totally to the new cardboard books with realistic pictures that were just starting to be produced.
I have made sure to buy these too for all my grandkids and when they get the hang of it...we move along to seek and find books with the same sort of pictures. I still love beautiful chldren's books but think they are often more for the adults reading them than the kids.... ;D
How nice you found a guide for teaching at home.
Jackie
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Post by kellyds on Jan 12, 2009 14:37:30 GMT -5
I love children's books, too, and some of the illustrations are amazing. Like you, I admire the artist's talent, but the more realistic pictures are better for Joshie. My other kids like to guess what the artist used to make the picture (paint, colored pencil, charcoal, oil pastels, etc.)
I have purchased quite a few board books from Amazon for Joshie that have real pictures in them. I also make books for him which are mainly photos printed on a full page of paper, put into a sheet protector in a notebook. He loves pictures of our family and will point to the nose, hair, etc. (He can't discriminate between the words "hair" and "ear", no matter how carefully I pronounce them, but that's another story.)
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Post by Googsmom aka Jennifer on Jan 12, 2009 16:05:27 GMT -5
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Post by jelanismom on Jan 13, 2009 1:51:11 GMT -5
Many thanks here too Kelly...how nice of you to share!
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Post by sd112170 on Jan 14, 2009 20:51:46 GMT -5
Thanks for showing this!! This will be great!!
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