Early Start Preschool Curriculum

04/13/2020

We at Early Start hope that everyone is safe and healthy during this time. We know that a lot of daycares are closed right now due to COVID 19. Since many children are at home we are now offering the option to buy our monthly curriculum for people that are homeschooling. If you are interested you can visit our website at https://earlystart.biz

The price for 1 child is a flat $19.99 or you can purchase for 2 children for a flat rate of $24.99. If you would like to take advantage of this offer please call us at 352-609-2522. If you order online we will manually change the price to the amounts listed above as the website has not been updated to accommodate this offer.

09/12/2017

We got hit hard by hurricane Irma and are without power. Should be up and running within a week. If you need anything please email us at [email protected] and we will reply once we have internet again. (This is from my cell phone)
Thank you,
The Early Start Staff

08/17/2017

This article will help you make a cereal box pinhole camera that you can make with your children and it's got some exercises to go along with it. It will help your children enjoy the upcoming solar eclipse! Everybody enjoy!

07/17/2017

Hope everyone is having a wonderful summer! We are ramping back up to restart our curriculum in September & it will be series 3.

We are also including a first week preschool. Checklist to help you have all the basics of their new environment covered.

To start in September, please let us know by the beginning of August. We are always one month ahead!

06/06/2017

Today we are doing a S.T.E.M. activity. S.T.E.M. is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education.

For this activity we will need
1 - building blocks
2 - plastic cups (we used 3oz size)
3 - and large craft sticks

S.T.E.M. activities are great to do with your kids because the skills and knowledge in each discipline are essential for student success. But also because these fields are deeply intertwined in the real world and in how students learn most effectively.

We had three building challenges for our activity.

Challenge #1 build a tower with only one block at the base
Challenge #2 build the tallest tower you can with a square shaped base
Challenge #3 build the strongest tower you can we tested the strength of our towers by seeing whose tower could hold the most books.

Building with blocks is great even at a young age, it develops motor skills and hand-eye coordination, spatial skills, a capacity for creative and divergent thinking, social skills, and language skills.

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05/19/2017

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04/08/2017

Something special for Easter or Mothers Day! 🎉

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03/24/2017

The Mixed-Up Chameleon Paint Mixing Activity

If you have a child, you probably know who Eric Carle is. Besides Dr. Seuss, he’s one of the most well-known children’s authors! And if you’re anything like us, you’ve probably read The Very Hungry Caterpillar more times than you can count, too. We finally took a break from that Eric Carle classic and decided to read another book by him, The Mixed-Up Chameleon, a few times this week. Have you read it? It’s about a chameleon who travels to the zoo and decides he wants to be like all the other animals there. He then begins to grow flamingo wings, a fox tail, an elephant trunk, etc. At the end of the book he decides he is happier as himself, and changes back to his chameleon body again.

After reading the book we talked more about how chameleons change color based on their environment. We used the word camouflage to describe the chameleon’s ability to change color to match his surroundings and we also discussed the reason they do it is to hide from predators (it’s a form of protection!)

After all that discussion I thought it would be fun to do a color-mixing activity based on the chameleon’s ability to change colors. Here’s the short and sweet supply list:
* Ziplock bag
* Paint
* Permanent marker

Free-handed a drawing of a chameleon on a bag with a permanent marker (thank you Eric Carle for having simple illustrations that I can copy!). Then, add dollops of paint inside the bag and seal it shut.

Then comes the fun- mixing! Since the bag is sealed, this is a no-mess activity that parents don’t have to fear and kids still love 🙂

What is great about this color mixing activity is that the colors take a while to blend. It gives the kids a chance to really study the mixing process and see it happen gradually. When we’re through mixing, we hang the bags in a window and they become great sun catchers!

Idea: use two colors that together makes another color.
Blue & yellow = green
Red & blue = purple

03/20/2017

Another fun Easter 🐣 idea for easygoing, fun and tasty treat.

03/20/2017

Something fun & easy for Easter that all will love!

03/08/2017

Egg carton daffodils!

First of all we cut up lots of petal shapes and coloured them using oil pastels, crayons, chalks and pencils. C used the tray from this post as an art lap tray!

We arranged them on a piece of card in a complementary color, purple, and stuck them down using sticky foam squares (I don’t know their real name, sorry!).

Arrange around into a circle of 6 petals, slightly overlapping.

And then we stuck one section from an egg carton into the middle of the flower (again using the sticky squares for a solid hold and no mess!) Our egg carton happened to be orange, but obviously you could paint it first if not.

Attach it to the middle of the flower by using tape inside the trumpet.

The childern were very keen to do more so we made another to go onto green card and one onto bright pink. The latter has 8 petals because they were enthusiastic!

These would make lovely Mother’s Day cards or Easter cards. They also look pretty stuck up on the door where we now have them displayed 🙂.

Craft Foam Daffodils!

For this we used a sheet of yellow and orange craft foam, one piece of green card and clear tape.

Again, just cut 6 petal shapes all the same size from the foam sheet for each child.

Arrange into a flower shape by slightly overlapping each petal, and fix together at the back with some tape.

Cut a rectangle from orange craft foam and cut a little well spaced “fringe” along one edge.

Roll it up and secure it with tape on the inside. Fold out the fringed edge and it should sit back of its own accord.

Attach it to the middle of the flower by using tape inside the trumpet.

Roll up a piece of green card lengthways and secure with tape. Attach it to the back of the flower and stand it up in a vase!

Or….give it to your toddler to “sniff” and say “oooo dat smells wond-a-full!” You could make a bunch of these for such a sweet kiddie gift or as a Spring decoration!