GINGERBREAD HOMEPRESCHOOL        - THE UNSCHOOL FUNSCHOOL FOR BAILEY AND FRIENDS!

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This site was updated October 13, 2002

We believe that children belong with their families if at all possible.  Gingerbread Homepreschool is one of the ways that our family chooses togetherness.

Bailey is very close to her Grandpa.  They like to read stories together, including Peter Rabbit.

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As Unschoolers we have no set lesson plan.  We believe in child-led learning, so we follow Bailey's lead.  This doesn't mean  that we sit watching passively.  We are facilitators of Bailey's education.  At her age, she has no concept of learning resources, let alone where to find them, that is our job.

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Archive from February:

Bragging rights!  Bailey's latest:

We have been doing a lot of dancing, art, and letters.  Bailey has also shown an interest in counting.  Her sense of humor is rather sophisticated for her age, although she is only now starting to laugh at incongruities (like pointing to her leg and calling it her nose.) Bailey has taught herself almost all of the letters of the alphabet, and she even knows some of the sounds they make! (x, o, a, m, q, s, b) She taught herself how to use scissors two weeks ago, and has added this to her art projects.  Mostly she just makes numerous single cuts along the edges of her paper - like fringe - but once she cut off the corner of a piece of paper with two angled cuts and then brought the piece to me saying, "Look Mommy!  A parallelogram!" The other day when she was painting, she accidentally put her red paintbrush  into the white paint pot and as she was painting she suddenly exclaimed, "Hey!  White and red make pink!" It pays to have a name that's difficult to understand over the phone!  From listening to me repeat the spelling of our last name over and over again on the phone Bailey has learned that our last name is spelled "L-U-K-O-W!"  ;-)

We still consider ourselves Unschoolers even though Bailey is now attending Montessori preschool.  Montessori is so close to our philosophy of education anyway that we couldn't pass it up. Bailey had a tour of the fire department with some classmates last month.  The kids got to climb into the engines and one of the firefighters got dressed all the way to the oxygen tank. Bailey knows the sounds of all the letters now, and is making her first attempts at writing some of them.  She especially likes 'b' and knows that it is the first letter of her name and mine. She has learned to get tape from the dispenser!  Also, she now draws people with circles for hands and feet and many little circles on the edge of the big circle for fingers and toes.   :) She has learned a couple of jokes and tells them quite successfully.  "Where do cows go on the weekend?  To the mooovies.  If they get bored they go to the mooseum!" We went to the coast for our vacation this year.  We visited the beach at White Rock with my best friend Ally and collected "sheshells"."  This, I think, was the highlight of our trip for Bailey. Bailey can now count objects up to about 5.  She plays a mean game of memory and uses our computer better than some adults I know! At school the children have been discussing signs of fall, and Bailey has memorized part of a poem (on her own, from a book we took out of the library.)  "Summer's over, now it's fall.  Just the nicest time of all!" (from Now It's Fall by Lois Lenski.)