Preschool Program

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Preschool Program

If you are considering doing preschool with your own child, and like the idea of home daycare, starting an actual preschool program for other children might be an option.



You can do preschool in your daycare in many different ways:
--Offer a pre-school program to those in your care old enough
--Offer daycare only to preschool aged children
--Offer part-time preschool classes to preschool aged children 2-3 times per week

Whichever way you decide to do it, it will be tons of fun!

Pre-school programs are generally made up of the following activities:
--Educational Instruction
--Arts and Crafts
--Songs and Games
--Snacks
--Educational Play

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Educational Instruction

When instructing preschoolers, educational instruction does not need to be formal, or intensive.

Most instruction should revolve around recognizing letters, colors, numbers, and shapes.

Busy work would amount to coloring.

The most important thing for the preschoolers is to have fun.

The following are preschool curriculum and instruction resources:

--Preschool Genius Learning Package
Though their website will win no awards in my book, this is actually a great preschool curriculum package. It comes with computer games, MP3 songs, and print outs.

--Click N Kids
This is a reading and phonics program that gives visual, game-type interaction to help kids learn to read. If you are looking for a video phonics program, this program is used in schools across the country.

--ABC Fun and 1-2-3
A great, inexpensive, 26-week preschool curriculum designed to organize and give you a step by step guide to preschool lessons. Check out the FREE printables on her site.




--Fun Lesson Plans
Great site with free lessons as well as lessons available for purchase.

--Enchanted Learning
Wonderful site full of valuable free printables, with more resources available to those who choose to pay an annual fee.

--Ed Helper
Good resource site for all grade levels, with printables and other resources. Annual fee applies.

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Arts and Crafts

Preschoolers love to get messy and they love to create things!

They like texture, and bright colors, and anything having to do with paint.


Sites for Arts and Craft Ideas

First School

Everything Preschool

Preschool Rock

Sites for Supplies

Oriental Trading Company, Inc.

S&S Worldwide

HomeRoom Teacher

Sites for Songs and Games

Preschool Express

Preschool Rainbow

National Network for Child Care

A to Z Teacher Stuff

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Content Website

If you are going to go through the time, effort, energy and expense of creating your own preschool program, you might as well be sharing that information with others online, so that you can earn even more money.

You can choose to become an infopreneur and sell ebooks of your work, or you can just create a content based website to earn income from other sources.

Either way, it’s inexpensive to start, and you do not need any website design knowledge what-so-ever. What you do need is Site Build It.

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Check out these other home daycare pages for more daycare resources:

What Is Home Daycare

Starting a Home Daycare

Types of Home Child Care

Daycare Resources

Alternatives to Full Time Daycare

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