From Preschool to Tot School

Homeschooling at age 2 1/2 and 1 1/2 - isn't that too early??? Although I did consider this question A LOT, I realized that my kids have such a love of learning and they are sponges waiting to be filled with knowledge. Every day, either Chloe will come up to me and say " we do learning now"? or Caitlyn will crawl up on my lap and point to my computer and say something that while not understandable to many, I have come to learn means learning. So this week we started "preschool". After hours and hours of searching the internet for ideas, direction and curriculum, I came up with a lesson plan for our first unit (theme) on Fire Safety. Why Fire Safety as the first theme? We were scheduled to take a tour of a fire station with a local mom's group this week.I was having a hard time figuring out what home school would look like for our family especially at the girls being so young. I had like 3 hours planned with activities and art/crafts for the first day. We ended up doing about 2 hours and I was just relaxed about the whole thing, if they wanted to move onto something else we did (even if it wasn't on the schedule/lesson plan. I was proud of my perfectionistic, planning self. :-) Then during the girls nap time I came across a website about "tot school". At last what I had been looking for... and the more I read, the more I realized I had already been doing this and just needed to focus our attention slightly to start teaching additional skills. Not drilling them in or being militant or legalistic. My philosophy of education is very similar to this blog writer, Carissa. As she states on her website about Tot School Goals, "

Our #1 goal, above all else is to have fun and to develop a

love of learning, everything else is secondary at this stage. We are now "Tot Schoolers" I will post as frequently as possible our adventures in Tot School.