Loop Scheduling With Preschool
I get it. I’ve been there too. We have great intentions about doing The Peaceful Preschool four days a week, but then the baby gets sick, or we get overwhelmed with helping the first-grade student with their work, and it all falls apart.
But there is a solution to this spiral of intention versus follow-through, and it’s called loop scheduling.
Instead of looking at The Peaceful Preschool, or the one month Nature Guides as a daily resource, use them as a looping resource. This means that you simply work your way down each day as you have time, putting a checkmark by an activity as you accomplish it. Then the next time you have a few minutes to learn with your preschool student, you pick up with the next activity.
For example, the next time you have a few minutes for preschool learning just open up one of our guides. For this example, we will use The Ocean Guide.
First learning time you read Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey (you could substitute with any ocean-themed book), then put a check by the book.
Next learning time, whether it’s an hour later or a day later, you use liquid glue to adhere sand to the large letter B for a fine motor and phonics activity.
During the next learning time, you count the tentacles of an octopus. Count them a couple of times and write the numbers.
At the next learning time you transfer shells from one bucket to another.
Next, you make a wave bottle.
Later, you check the tide schedule and talk about tides.
Finally, you use water droppers with food coloring to make drip art on coffee filters.
It might take you a couple of days to get through the activities, or it might take a week. The important thing is that instead of trying and then giving up, you keep on learning with your little one. And instead of only focusing on literacy or counting activities, your child gets the fine and large motor skills work that really lay a strong foundation for learning.
It’s a beautiful way to take action on preparing your child to be a strong learner while avoiding the feelings of failure that can happen when we don’t accomplish all we hope for in a day.
We recommend starting with The Peaceful Preschool, followed by The Ocean Guide, Tree Guide, Christmas Guide, and Garden Guide. Once your child has completed those units, you can move on to the Sky Guide, Mountain Guide, Freshwater Guide, Desert Guide, Farm Guide, and Meadow Guide.
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