Education is one of the most important legacies you can leave to your child, and preschool-curriculum is the beginning of the formal education. If you decide to educate your child at home, each decision bears greatly on this legacy. Homeschooling brings about great benefits, and bringing about these benefits will require building a strong homeschool curriculum. A curriculum is the material to be used in teaching your child. A preschool-curriculum may include teaching basic shapes and the alphabet. There are a number of ways to teach these concepts, and one way to do it is the homeschool method.

A good preschool homeschool curriculum starts with good research. If you are a homeschooling novice, read up on teaching strategies and learning styles. After you’ve got that covered, you need to decide whether you want to pull together your own preschool homeschool curriculum or get one that’s been assembled and ready to go.

If you want to build your own curriculum, know and have ready, the legal requirements specified by your local education system. From those set of requirements, you can build a homeschool preschool-curriculum that’s customized to your child’s interests. On the other hand, you can also buy an assembled or packaged preschool curriculum for homeschool. A packaged curriculum saves you time in terms of preparation, letting you devote more time to actual teaching (which is already hard enough).

There is growing evidence that educating children at a very early age may lead to learning fatigue, making them less enthusiastic about learning and less able to exercise creativity. Exchanging formal preschool education with a more diverse and less structured series of experiences will work to your child’s advantage. It doesn’t take complex activities to give your preschooler a great homeschool experience. Take your daily routines and turn them into fully-involved communication exercises. At the grocery, ask about the colors of fruits and the shapes of jars. Involving ordinary routines in the learning experience help build vocabulary in a context that is very real to your child.

Exercising the mind is not enough; you must also address your preschooler’s physical activity needs. Pay close attention to your child’s motor skills and exercise them with indoor play activities such as clay sculpting or coloring. For outdoor activities, get your child climbing, jogging or playing ball.

Your preschooler’s homeschool curriculum will require a lot of research on your part, specifically in early childhood development. Most important, you must make time to get to know your child better. Knowing what your child loves allows you to use these interests to sneak in a lesson or two. Time is the biggest investment towards giving your child a legacy that truly lasts.

Additional Resources for preschool-curriculum.
Phonics  by Spelling's books and music CD's teach the phonetic sounds through music, pictures depicting the sounds, and the spellings for each sound. These will add excitement and clarity to any reading or phonics instruction.
Shirley's Preschool Activities has wonderful resources for every homeschool family.  Make sure you check out her ABC Fun & 1-2-3.  It's a must read for every preschool teacher.

All Of Me Literacy - The ABC’s and All of Me is a child-friendly approach to teaching young children to read and rejoice in their individual learning styles. Through music, movement, and sensory-play experiences they master letter names and sounds in a parent/teacher friendly, systematic way. They also master other research proven early literacy skills that lead them joyfully into the wonderful world of reading.
Bright Beginnings - Bright Beginnings is a user-friendly "how-to" manual for parents who would like to teach their children at home. It is designed for children 4-6 years of age, so it can be used for preschool and / or Kindergarten. The program helps children grasp important concepts and skills such as letters, shapes, numbers, colors, gross and fine motor coordination, listening, visual discrimination, classifying and much more. Character training and Bible knowledge is interwoven through the curriculum, creating a balanced program both academically and spiritually. All of this accomplished using a variety of methods that will delight as well as challenge your child.
Drills, Skills & More - All titles provide a fun and simple way to accomplish a task. Many titles, used in combination, provide useful ideas for the unit study approach to education. All titles have been screened for content to exclude evolution, immorality, humanism, and witchcraft.
Dune Craft has many awards for their unusual science and nature products for all ages.
Mother Goose Time is a professionally planned preschool curriculum that offers monthly packets of theme based hands-on activities and arts and crafts, providing a balance of important preschool skill experiences for 2 1/2 to 5 year old children.
 

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