Homeschool Pre-K Curriculum Plans
“Pre-K Curriculum” is almost an oxymoron. Four-year-olds should play, hear good stories, and play, play, play!
All that being said, there’s no reason not to have a few intentional plans for our pre-k year. I know my 4-year-old will want to “do school” since he’ll see his big sisters doing it; he wants to be included in everything they do! However, I’m determined to keep it simple and fun!
Our Super-Simple Plans for Pre-K:
Morning Board
My focus for our morning board is the 1st grader, but there’s plenty here a preschooler can learn, too. Bonus for me: if I can convince him that “tomorrow” is not a day of the week, conversations about when we’re doing what will be so much easier!
I’ll share a post with more about our morning board later, but in short, we discuss calendar and weather, weekly memory verse and character trait, and work on memorizing our address, etc.
{Sometimes a fairy princess helps with our morning board!}
Read-alouds
My preschooler will be listening in to read-alouds for the 1st grader, and I’m sure she’ll be wanting to listen in on his as well!
Just a few of our planned preschool read-alouds:
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- Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
- Harry the Dirty Dog
- Bedtime for Frances
- The Little Red Caboose
- Sheep in a Jeep
- Go, Dog Go
- Is Your Mama a Llama?
ABC’s
We’ll use many of the book suggestions and “extra ideas” on ABC Jesus Loves Me, a free online preschool curriculum. When he feels like sitting down at the table with us, I’ll have him do a page or two in his preschool workbooks from Rod and Staff.
Nature Study
We’ll do plenty of relaxed, fun nature studies. We don’t have to do preschool-specific studies; he’ll learn alongside the bigger kids. We’ll do nature studies like Barb’s Outdoor Hour Challenges; we’ve done these since my 7th grader was a kindergartener! I also like Maureen’s preschool science ideas and plan to try making her paper bag nature journals!
And that’s it!
That’s all I have planned for our super-simple year of homeschool pre-k!
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Have fun! This is such a great age.
I like these plans, Jamie! My preschooler loves “Go, Dog, Go!” too. 🙂 Thanks for mentioning the ABC Jesus Loves Me site! I hadn’t heard of it before this.
So glad you’ve shared this! I just sat down today, to start working on pulling things together. I’ve gotten a ton of free printables and such that I’m hoping to incorporate, but was feeling a bit overwhelmed.
My 4 year old has the days of the weeks set to activities. It is Grandma day or it is swimming day and so forth. He gets confused when plans change. “But Grandma day comes after swimming day”
Haha! For a while EVERY day was Friday. As in: we’ll go there on Friday; Granma will come over on Friday; we go to church on Friday…
I am trying to remember which of my older two used to do that. I think it was Margaret. For her it was always something she wanted to do. Can we go to the park on Friday?
Sounds like SO much fun! I miss that age. On the subject of tomorrow, one idea that works is to have a little section on your board for “Yesterday,” one for “Today,” and one for “Tomorrow.” Every morning change the day-of-the-week cards underneath to show the way these change every day. We always got hung up on “the day after tomorrow.”
I can’t wait to get more details on your morning board. I have been trying to do a morning board with my kindergartener but we need a calendar and date like yours that can be moved around to reinforce the concept. Will check back often since my K5 falls right in between your pre k and 1st students. Thanks for all your great ideas!
Love your blog! We’re in the adoption process right now. Just waiting to be picked. I’ve always wanted to homeschool. You have some great resources here I look forward to using.