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Preschool Curriculum (Ages 4-
By age 4, I actually start requiring my child to follow instructions and actually pull out their workbooks when the “teacher” (aka: mommy) asks them too.
Most of their learning will still be very flexible, with a lot of flexibility for them to be able to choose what they want to work on, but at this age I begin to introduce a little more structure to their learning, and a little more emphasis on sitting quiet in class and following the teacher’s instructions, too.
Read and Share Bible Videos. The Read and Share Bible Videos are the very best Bible videos I have found for kids! As far as children’s Bible videos go, these stay very close to the actual story, and they are very calm and peaceful (no added hype that we see in a lot of other animated Bible movies). With all of my children, the Read and Share Bible Videos were their very first screen time exposure. And I was amazed to see my 1 and 2 year olds actually tracking with the story and understanding the Bible stories. I think these animated Bible stories were a very formative part of my children’s development and faith.
The Bible App for Kids. A fun, simple little app that allows young kids to interact with simple Bible stories.
The Bible App for Kids Storybook Bible
The Bible App for Kids Storybook Bible. Our family was so excited when we discovered that our favorite Bible app had been turned into a published book. We’ve tried a lot of different children’s Bibles over the years, but this one was definitely our favorite!
Preschool School Zone Workbook
Preschool School Zone Workbook. This is my favorite workbook for preschool-
By the time my child is 4 (almost 5) years old, they can pretty much do this book on their own without any help. And I usually start introducing them to Kindergarten level workbooks at the same time – also allowing them to work at their own pace.
Reading Eggs & Mathseeds Kindergarten Workbooks
Reading Eggs & Mathseeds Kindergarten Workbooks. Even though these books are geared specifically for Kindergarten, I like to introduce them to my children right around age 4 (or shortly before they turn 5). Because my kids have already had experience using the School Zone Preschool workbook, they usually find these books very easy to start using.
The main difference between these books and the School Zone Preschool workbooks, is that with these I really do enforce the rule that they have to do the pages in order. With the preschool workbook I’m totally fine with them picking and choosing which pages they want to work on, and doing them completely out of order. But with these Kindergarten workbooks, I begin establishing the idea that they can’t just skip around the book doing whatever they want, they have to actually do the pages in the order given.
Of course, because I am introducing these book a year earlier than they usually would be introduced, I am still totally fine with my child working at their own pace. So if they only feel like doing one page that day, that’s fine. Or if they want to keep going and do 4, 5, 6, pages in a day, I’m fine with that too. The child gets to pick how MANY pages they do, as long as they are doing them in the correct order.
Reading Eggs “Starting Out” Mini Book Box Sets (for Kindergarten)
Reading Eggs “Starting Out” Mini Books Box Sets. These “Starting Out” books are meant to be used along side the Reading Eggs Kindergarten workbook. In fact, at the end of each lesson in the workbook, there is an “assigned reading” activity, where the student is supposed to read one of these mini books.
There are four of these “Starting Out” box sets that go along with the Kindergarten Reading Eggs workbook:
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Reading Eggs & Mathseeds Online Program
Reading Eggs & Mathseeds Online Program. I absolutely love this online learning program! As a homeschool mom with four kids, being able to log my kids on to this independent learning program has felt (to me) a lot like adding a second teacher to our classroom; an assistant teacher, of sorts.
When I need to work one-
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If it’s helpful at all, here’s the list of the Scholastic books we used (they certainly have lots more, but these are the ones we used), in the order we read them in:
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(Note: We skipped Buddy Readers Level C because it had ghosts in it)
For Preschool, we also do a lot of “early learning” activities.