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Getting Zoe Ready For Preschool and Miles Ready for Me

August 9, 2010 by Momstart 81 Comments

Zoe has been ready for at least two months to go to school. She is so very excited about going to preschool and getting homework. While I was at BlogHer, a friend of mine, Erica (she works for 5minutesformom) was telling me everything she needs to get done in a week for back to school with her three children. That reminded me that I have a lot to do too. Two of the things being, calling the doctor for a copy of the immunization records and the other, finding out where the registration forms are.

image I called the school and the doctor and have started the process of getting Zoe into school. My next problem is going to be how am I going to deal with my son, who’s entire world is his sister. I’m a small part of his world but he seems to handle when I leave and go on a trip but whenever he is away from his sister he gets really depressed. Hopefully, I can get him as interested in doing “home work” as his sister is. Then we can practice our letters, shapes, numbers and working with scissors.

Mead sent us five different products from the Mead Writing Fundamentals back to school line.

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Snip-It
Shape Builders
Letter Stories
Dry Erase Activity Board (Stages 1, 2, 3)

Zoe just loves practicing her letters and working on numbers. She can sit for hours just learning and working on these things.

So my goal is that while Zoe is off at Pre-school for 3 hours every couple of days is to get Miles interested in academics a little more, but more than that it’s going to be about having time alone with mommy. I’ll have lots of one on one time with him and I’m really excited about it. I’m also excited to practice shapes and letter recognition. This is the age that Zoe was when she started learning her alphabet.

Mead Writing Fundamentals are designed with your child in mind. They encourage hand eye coordination, reading skills, and the ability to focus. They are divided into four stages based on the developmental level of the child, these tools progressively build upon one another as children master the skills necessary for writing success.

The mead product line can be found at Target and has been on-sale for Back To School! I am giving away the entire set that I received to review. All you have to do to enter is:

Leave me a comment telling me how you are getting ready for preschool. You can earn more entries by doing all of the social media things listed below (digg, stumble, blog, you know the drill) if you feel so inclined.

This is a product sponsored post and giveaway the supplies are provided by Mead. This giveaway ends August 23rd, All rules can be found under giveaway rules.

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  1. Tara McClenahan says

    August 9, 2010 at 2:04 pm

    I’m excited to get Little Man ready for pre-preschool! I’m mapping out a plan to cover colors, shapes, letters, numbers, etc. I think I would LOVE these Mead products to work on getting his fine motor skills well-tuned! Thanks for the opportunity!

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  2. JD Seattle says

    August 9, 2010 at 2:05 pm

    I can’t believe my little guy is starting Kindergarten in a few weeks. Where did the time go.

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  3. Ashley says

    August 9, 2010 at 2:06 pm

    I’d love to win these for my kids – we’re getting ready to do school “officially” after Labor Day, but we’ve started working on reading and handwriting this month.

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  4. cher says

    August 9, 2010 at 4:16 pm

    I am using a workbook with my son that has counting and shapes in it. He is pretty good at letters right now, but he is not good at drawing them.

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  5. Courtney says

    August 9, 2010 at 6:45 pm

    Before the summer started my son’s school gave him a workbook for the summer. It was been fun working through it with him. Of course he had an incentive, the school told the kids that if they bring the completed workbook with them on the first day of school then they get a special surprise prize. So my son was all for it.

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    • Momstart says

      September 11, 2010 at 12:36 pm

      Hey Courtney,

      You won the Mead giveaway on my blog. Woot! Can you remind me what your address is so I can send it to the sponsor. Thanks!!!!

      Reply
  6. Keita says

    August 9, 2010 at 7:02 pm

    We use some great apps on the iPad to practices letters and numbers.

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  7. Heather d. says

    August 9, 2010 at 7:57 pm

    Oh I would so love to win this for my little man who is also about to start preschool…he’s got all of his shapes, numbers, colors, letters, etc. down but could definitely work on his fine motor skills!

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  8. Idaho Jill says

    August 10, 2010 at 8:20 am

    My daughter is 3 & will be going to preschool. She knows her letters, but we are working on the sounds they make & what words start with the letters ( a is for apple, etc). It’s amazing how quickly they learn at this age!

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  9. Erin says

    August 10, 2010 at 9:05 am

    We’ve been practicing numbers and letters!

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  10. Summer Oleksy says

    August 10, 2010 at 9:55 am

    LB, get Miles into toddler group! Then he can go “to school” too … at least 1 day a week! Toddler Group is all about socialize but it sounds like he could use some of that too with Zoe gone. He’ll learn a little bit more about himself without sister around … and you will too! What an exciting time in your lives!

    Jamison and I work on letter recognitions and phonics … it’s not too interested in writing or coloring/art. Mainly we let him leave by playing and not so much hitting the books. =)

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  11. Debbie Stanton says

    August 11, 2010 at 6:52 am

    we are getting ready for preschool with my 3-year old son by: learning abc’s and letter sounds, numbers and counting up to 20, and shapes… we do this by reading books, workbooks, and just mentioning objects around the house and what letter and sounds they start with. I also play and abc tennis game with him because learning has to be “action” with my son…. we have foam letters from a puzzle…. I hold up the letter and when he says the letter and sound correctly, I toss it in the air and he gets to hit it with his tennis racket. We have also been doingsome scissors work.

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    Extra enty: I added to google bookmarks.

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  13. Cynthia R says

    August 12, 2010 at 4:57 am

    we spend a lot of time reading out loud going over sounds together, we also have games to help with shapes, colors, letters, and direction

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  14. Tiffany says

    August 15, 2010 at 9:56 am

    We have the Summer Bridge Activity Books that my 4-year old LOVES to do. She calls it her “homework” and actually requests to do it a few times a day. I love that she loves to learn! She also loves practicing her letter by writing people’s names.

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