This coming September will be a big one for us… Jude will be starting preschool!  We’ve been preparing for school these past few months, but really, we’ve been preparing for school/creating a learning environment in our home since Jude was a little tiny baby.

We started reading to the boys from the very beginning – so I think that’s how Jude fell in love with books/reading…

Since I’m in full “back to school” mode,  I wanted to share some of the learning tools that we use for our little guys:

• Books – we have a lot lying around the house (I’m constantly bringing new books home – perks of working at the library)
• Large alphabet letters and numbers – The boys love playing with these and using them to make words.  We also use them to as stencils to make even more letters.
• Notebooks and markers – easy to reach so they can draw or write (though, Seth still eats them)
• Leapfrog Phonics Toy
• A few educational apps that we use:
  • http://creativemamma.com/5-more-educational-apps-for-kids/
  • http://creativemamma.com/awesome-book-apps-for-kids/
  • http://creativemamma.com/5-fun-and-educational-preschool-apps/

Here’s little video of Jude reading at 22 months and here at 2 and 1/2 years old.  Ok, now I’m off to go school shopping (one of my favorite things to do).

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