Learning Before School -- Teaching Pre-Grammar Stage Students
In this episode, Susan Wise Bauer and Susanna Jarrett discuss creating a positive learning environment for young children, before formal education begins.
Our Top Recommendations for Preschool Curricula:
- Preschool Math at Home by Kate Snow
- The Toddler Busy Book by Trish Kuffner
- Complete Daily Curriculum for Early Childhood by Pam Schiller and Patt Phipps
- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:14) - Welcome to Season 2! (plus a little Season 1 recap)
- (00:43) - The Nuts and Bolts of Classical Education
- (01:28) - What Classical Education looks like before the grammar stage
- (06:50) - The preschool years at a brain development level
- (09:15) - The preschool years at a physical development level
- (11:40) - Laying out some basic principles
- (11:50) - Don't push into formal education activities
- (12:44) - Create and environment for reading, math, and thinking
- (21:27) - If your child does want to do school
- (24:24) - How to create a learning environment
- (24:58) - Don't confuse entertainment with education
- (27:50) - Encourage drawing counter-clockwise circles
- (29:15) - Incorporate counting into everyday life
- (31:16) - Talk! (and listen!)
- (34:21) - Read read read!
- (38:23) - What your kid should know before 1st grade
- (42:31) - Outro
