Choosing the best homeschool preschool curriculum can be really easily. Also, you’ll love my page Homeschool Curriculum for more ideas and grade level curriculum. And my page How to Homeschool Preschool.
You don’t need to buy a box or prepared curriculum but rather learn through play.
Learning through play can be easily directed by the parent (but not forced) to create a rich learning environment.
It should be more like fun and naturally being introduced to math, science, history, language arts, and more.
Preschoolers don’t need to worry about writing yet.
It is more important to build up their fine motor skills.
And this is easily done by building with blocks, playing with playdough, buttoning and unbuttoning their clothing, and digging in the dirt.
This can be as simple as putting letters in a sensory bin and asking them to find the letter that their name starts with or counting out crackers for a snack.
Common Household Items for Play Based Learning
You can use much of what you already have in your own home to teach preschoolers.
For example look at these items:
- inexpensive craft supplies,
- blunt scissors,
- measuring cups/spoons,
- beans for manipulatives,
- toys for practicing beginning letter sounds,
- cooking utensils for pouring and measuring,
- mini scale,
- crayons,
- seeds,
- analog clocks with hands and minutes,
- maps, and anything else you can think of.
But for some structure that is still enjoyable, I have recommendations for each subject to help you facilitate a wonderful early learning environment.
Themes are especially fun in preschool and can be used to create a homeschool preschool curriculum with all the subjects.
Some favorites for us were farm, construction, space, dinosaurs, winter, and pets.
Focus on letter and number recognition, simple counting, read-aloud, and lots of play for little ones.
Also, look at more tips for teaching preschoolers.
More Homeschool Preschool Curriculum Tips
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- A is for Apple Craft | Apple Study
- B is for Bird Craft | Bluebird Study
- E is For Easy Eagle Study
- G is for Gorilla Mask | Africa Study
- H Horse Handprint | Horse Study
- K is for Kangaroo| Australia Theme
- M is for Monkey Handprint | Monkey Study
- N Is For Nest Handprint | Nests Study
- O is for Owl | Great Horned Owl Study
- R is for Rainbow | Rain Mobile
- T is for Teeth | Dental Unit
- W Is For Winter | Snowman Oobleck Activity
- X is for X Ray | Crayon Resist Skeleton
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Finally, look at these recommendations.
14 Preschool Homeschool Curriculum Options
Look at what your homeschool preschool curriculum might look like with some suggestions for activities, books, and learning ideas.
Preschool Math at Home will guide you step-by-step as you introduce your preschooler to the world of numbers. Your child will develop a thorough understanding of the numbers up to ten, including:
counting comparing and ordering numbers recognizing written numerals beginning addition and subtraction.
Use my Preschool Phonics units for teaching letter of the week, there are currently 13 and counting letters available to start with, full of activities, ideas, crafts, and more.
Looking for quick, engaging activities to prepare your child for kindergarten? Spend a few minutes a day with your child in productive, interactive play with Slow and Steady Get Me Ready For Kindergarten!
Slow and Steady Get Me Ready For Kindergarten abounds with hands-on developmental activities that parents can do with their children between the ages of 0 and 5 years old to get them prepared for kindergarten. June R. Oberlander, a 19-year veteran kindergarten teacher in Fairfax County, Virginia, first published this book in 1988. Now her granddaughter, Hannah Oberlander, a current teacher in Loudoun County, Virginia, has updated and enhanced these classic activities for today's parents of the next generation.
BOOK 1 of 4 (AGES 2-6) Book 1 is a pre-reading experience designed to provide your child with a complete program in perceptual readiness. Here are some of the unique qualities that you will find within these pages. We include all four major areas of perception: visual, auditory, motor, and comprehension skills. Each major category is then broken down into specific sub-skills so that you can understand just what type of learning is taking place. Every page develops only ONE sub-skill to avoid confusion when the child is working the page. A target score on each page quickly gives you a score as well as an incentive for the child to work toward a certain goal.
A perfect fun activity book designed for early learners to develop pencil control and motor skills. By following the arrows and tracing the dotted lines, the little scholars can complete the tracing exercises and creative activities leading to development of their early writing skills. The child will also learn to identify, write and revise straight, curvy, zig zag lines and multiple patterns. The book is also an excellent first step to prepare for school.
Designed to be used with children ages 2 through 4, Before Five in a Row is a rich treasury of creative ideas that help you gently, consistently prepare your children for the lifelong adventure of
learning. Now in a revised second edition, this bestselling volume is the foundation for inspired learning through great books and future studies with the entire Five in a Row curriculum.
Rich Numbers: you will get 2 buckets of lowercase letter beads, including 384 lowercase letters and 24 ropes, a total of 408 items, and the equipped storage buckets are easy to storage and protect these accessories; And the quantity is very large, which can meet the needs of daily learning and playing
Forms like 21 thematic planning pages, a year at a glance page, and 12 months of planning your theme are a few included.
Adding in an editable lesson planning template and 4 colorful
attendance sheets helps you to easily meet record keeping guidelines if
necessary
Science books for your preschooler's curriculum should be simple and colorful but contain rich information in small bites. Nature Anatomy and The Big Book of series are perfect resources to keep on your shelves for preschoolers as they will grow with them for years.
This sturdy boxed set of four bestselling Cat in the Hat's Learning Library books includes something to pique the interest of every child! Beginning readers will learn all about our solar system in There's No Place Like Space!; all about dinosaurs in Oh Say Can You Say Di-no-saur?; all about the human body in Inside Your Outside; and all about sharks in Hark! A Shark!
At the preschool level, science is all about exposure, not memorization of facts. It’s helping the youngest explorers understand that their world is discoverable. Through guided exploration of their world, young children learn how to naturally incorporate all aspects of language (expanding vocabulary), math (counting and recording), science (observing and experimenting), and art (drawing out ideas) into their understanding of how their world works. Most importantly, children will come to understand that their world is wonder-full, peace-full, and beauty-full because God created it full of His love and wisdom. Preschool Exploring Creation Together is a spiral-bound curriculum with 2 distinct sections included
Fun-Schooling for Beginners - Do-It-Myself Journal: Letters, Numbers, Animals, Coloring, Tracing, Mazes, Logic and Drawing (Full-Sized Activity Book for Preschool & Kindergarten) (Volume 1
A1 & A2, ideal for ages 2-6 (Preschool & Kindergarten) A beginners journal full of 100 educational and fun activities. This secular journal can be used by children of any religious background
Includes colors, numbers, letters, feelings, early reading & writing, and more.
This teacher guide contains gentle Socratic questions designed to prompt discussion and discovery. Beautiful drawings of indigenous animals are also included which will familiarize students with some remarkable creatures, their habitat and habits, cultivating respect and wonder for the natural world.
Sure to ignite curiosity about our nation's history, this Early American History Through Literature study will take you and your K-3 homeschooling students through the first Indigenous people of the Americas, the Vikings discovery of America, the exploration, colonization, settlement, and establishment of the United States. Spanning 1000 AD to the mid-1800's this course makes teaching this literature-rich curriculum easy and fun!
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