So here is my plan (mostly inspired by www.letteroftheweek.com):
Each week I will make a poster board with a letter, colour or shape and a theme. This week I chose the letter A, the colour green and alligators. I got some alligator books out of the library - both children's fiction and a couple of children's reference books. I have printed some letter A colouring pages and I printed a picture with all sorts of green objects.
So my plan is to point out the colour green whenever I can, dress her in green and give her some green things to eat. I also thought we could do a green photoshoot a la "Chasing Cheerios".
We have read some of the alligator books, and my next thing is for us to go on a 'gator scavenger hunt to find all the ones we have in our house. "Alligator Pie" will also be our song/ poem of choice for the week.
I have a few letter games we will do (if she is interested), and I will let her do the letter A on starfall.
Also each week I am hoping to come up with a gross motor skill, fine motor and montessori inspired activity. I have a one-to-one correspondence activity for her this week. I am also going to offer the scissors daily this week, and I got her a $2 golf club and ball to play with.
All of this is meant to be fun. It gives us something to do and hopefully DD will enjoy her "school". I am also hoping it will make it easier if we were to actually HS... but that is a whole other topic!
I am going to keep a notebook and try to fill it out each day and make note of what we did in each "subject" area. Already I noticed a change in how I think when Pooks and I interact. For example today she was eating some raisin and I would give her 1, 2 or 3 at a time and ask her how many their were. She really enjoyed counting them and eating them up. DH and I are also back to 'hugging for the count of 10'. We especially love this one because we get an extra long hug out of her!!
