u/Jealous_Musician_958

Hi all,

I am planning on homeschooling my so to be 4 year old for pre K this next year and was looking for some advice on where to start looking. It feels a little daunting to choose a curriculum that will best fit him, so any advice on programs or methods to look at would be helpful!

he is a very bright and active kid. He knows his shapes, colors, can count to 30, and understands the values of 1-10. He knows a good chunk of his letters and has shown very early signs of reading readiness that leads me to think he will be doing basic reading within the next year or so. He is very curious and has a desire to learn. I am trying to find curriculum that fosters this academic love with his high energy and love for play and outdoors. I know he is still little so I don’t want anything too formal like sitting down and doing workbooks everyday, but I want to continue to challenge him and keep him interested! also bonus points for any recommendations on Spanish curriculum we can tack on to his lessons, or a bilingual curriculum.

my 20 month old is historically a good sleeper. He has always woken up early but when it gets earlier than 6am, I’ve been able to adjust his nap and it fixes it. however, about a week ago, he started waking up at 5:45. His old schedule was wake up around 6-6:30, nap 12:45-2:30, bedtime 7:30. I moved his nap back to 1pm and it worked for maybe a few days, and now he’s waking up at 5am. Not only that, but he lays in his crib for 30min- 1hour babbling to himself at nap and bedtime until he starts crying. sometimes he puts himself to sleep a few minutes after crying, other times I have to go in and pat him to sleep. This morning he woke up at 5am, so I did a 12:30 nap (he didn’t fall asleep until 1:30 and only napped 45 minutes). I figured he was overtired so we did a “butt in bed” time of 6:45. My husband is currently in there (at 7:45) patting him. He chatted for about 50 minute then started crying. I just don’t know where to go that time point. He goes to bed acting like he’s not tired at all, even though I know he would be anfter the sleep he had today, and seems to stay awake until he’s overtired.