There was quite a number of curricula discussed in this post
http://forum.brillkids.com/homeschooling/infant-to-preschool-curriculum-by-the-month/and this one
http://forum.brillkids.com/homeschooling/homeschool-pre-kkindergarten-curriculum/and also this one
http://forum.brillkids.com/homeschooling/everything-preschool-theme-units/Some people were discussing the place read alouds can have in a preschool curiculum, here
http://forum.brillkids.com/homeschooling/read-alouds-before-prek/Luv2Read shared her curiculum choices in this thread
http://forum.brillkids.com/homeschooling/comparing-homeschooling-curriculums-what-do-you-use/As did purple fungi
I have been doing Montissori activities with my toddler, however I have recently had the urge to start more preschool/kindergarten projects. My son is almost 2.5 so this would be pretty age appropriate. I have really liked Brightly Beaming Resources
http://www.letteroftheweek.com/ for ideas.
Since he doesn't get the concept of writing so much, we have been doing the following:
1. Prewriting exercises printed from
http://www.kidssoup.com/ (It's a ~22.00/year membership and has been worth every penny)
2. Jump Start Advanced Preschool World computer program (I click for him) This costs around 40 USDs, but my son really enjoys it.
http://www.jumpstart.com/3. I make my own manipulatives by printing activities from Kidssoup and Kidsparks
http://www.kidsparkz.com/index.html Kidsparks (cost 50 USDs) has over 10,000 pages of printable resources. I then laminate the activities and cut them out. For instance, this week, we are playing concentration with different kinds of apple pictures, sequencing different kinds of apples against a control, sequencing how an apple is made, and matching different colored "As" with their lower case partner.
4. I also go over a page or two a day of Get Ready for Pre-K. We don't mark anything at this point in the book. We just talk about things.
http://www.amazon.com/Get-Ready-Pre-K-Interactive-Illustrations/dp/1579125492/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247087632&sr=8-1There's also the Jones Geniuses reading and math program discussed in multiple places including here
http://forum.brillkids.com/general-discussion-b5/jones-geniuses-math-and-reading-programs-are-you-interested/If you're interested in creating your own curriculum, here is a post by Trinity with the learning outcomes for preschoolers (ie what the child should know when they finish the program)
http://forum.brillkids.com/general-discussion-b5/preschool-curriculum-guide/As for languages, I love Little Pim. We have spanish. It's fantastic. I know they have French, but I don't know about Arabic.
The library post has some French resources as well.
Hope this helps.
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