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 (20:24) - If your child does want to do school (23:21) - How to create a learning environment (23:55) - Don't confuse entertainment with education (26:47) - Encourage drawing counter-clockwise circles (28:12) - Incorporate counting into everyday life (30:13) - Talk! (and listen!) (33:18) - Read read read! (37:20) - What your kid should know before 1st grade (41:28) - Outro