Getting Ready!

I successfully took ALL of the toys out of the boys room and put them all into mine! BIG MESS!!! THEN.......based upon another blog author's idea (homeschooler), went through them and sorted into "Educational" and "Not Educational". Then...I took it one step further and tossed quite a few things out of the "Not" pile! YAY!! I returned the "Not" pile to the boys room and arraged the toys in a manner to which they SHOULD be able to see how the toys should be put away! We are in the middle of a room-redo and I have BIG plans for how things should look and work in the end......I know...I know.....I'm dealing with 2 boys under the age of 5! There's never going to be a clean room....I should just stop trying, but....I can always DREAM!!!!

Anyway...one of the homeschool blogs I follow suggests putting trays onto a bookshelf that the kids can pick activities from on a daily basis, rotating the "Activities" out from time to time. I hope to do this, and have the "Educational" toys in 2 totes awaiting the shelf that my hubby will probably not have the time to build us any time soon as he and his father are currently up to their eyeballs in a Kitchen Cabinet job that needs to be done by 12/1. We can wait!!! :o)

I've also been looking for ideas for what I need to start working on with Creston. I just found this site...http://www.getreadyforschool.com/and will be going over it more closely. Just looked at it.....has good ideas for what a child should know, but they want you to purchase their program to teach your child the basics in a 10day program format. I think I can do that myself, so we won't be ordering anything..... I want to make sure that Creston knows all of the things that he needs to know before starting school next fall (If that is the route we take!).

According to the site, he should know how to:
Dress Himself
Draw Shapes
Hold a Pencil Correctly
Jump, Hop, & Skip
Tie His Shoelaces
Know His Numbers/Be Able to Count to at Least 20
Write His Name/know ABC's
Cut Neatly with Scisors
Know the basic Colors

Hopefully, I'll be able to find some good worksheets and more ideas to teach him these things! I'll keep looking!!! I'll post good links/sites as I find them!!