Welcome to the Play & Learn Preschool Curriculum. It is packed full of hands-on, simple, play based activities and ideas for your preschoolers and Kindergarteners to do, both at home and in the classroom. As a former teacher and current homeschool mama, I wanted a way to have a little more structure in our days all while playing and having fun. Play & Learn Preschool accomplishes just that.
What is Play & Learn Preschool?
Play & Learn Preschool is a 46 theme hands-on curriculum geared for toddlers, preschoolers, and even kindergarteners. While this was created out of a need for playing and learning with my own toddler and preschooler, the curriculum can also be used in a traditional classroom setting and can easily be adapted for younger toddlers and older preschoolers/kindergartners as well. Grab this one curriculum and use it with your kids until they head off
to kindergarten. Throughout this curriculum you will be
playing your way through many of the early learning skills that will
help prepare your child for kindergarten. I have poured over so many
different preschool standards and have created activities that will hit
upon each of those standards in fun, developmentally appropriate play
based ways. My vision for this curriculum was to have simple, fun,
hands-on and engaging activities that touch on a variety of topics and I
am extremely excited to finally share it with all of you.
What's included in the curriculum?
The base curriculum consists of 26 themed units, one unit for each letter of the alphabet. In addition, there are 9 holidays and seasonal units plus an additional 11 themes included that you can add in throughout the year. Each unit has been created to stand alone so you can do them in any order that you would like.
Each Theme Includes:
- A Look At the Whole Curriculum
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Theme Skills Overview
- Theme Materials List
- Field Trip and Family Day Ideas
- Book Suggestions
- Unit Calendars (Each unit currently includes a 1 week calendar, but a 2 week calendar is being added as they get updated.)
- Activity Directions
- Activity Printables
- Activities in Action Photos (being added as I go through and update the calendars)
Each Week Includes:
- Read Aloud (space to choose your own...a recommendation list has been included)
- 1-4 Themed Sensory Play Activities
- 4 Basic Skills Activities that include Letter, Number, Shape & Color Activities: These activities focus on a single color, shape, letter, and number for each of the 26 base curriculum units. All other units will have activities that allow you to practice some or all of the letters, numbers, shapes, and colors.
- 4 Spiral Review + Motor Skills Activities: These activities are included so that your child has the opportunity to continually practice ALL basic skills as well as fine motor and gross motor skills.
- 4 Number Sense/Counting Activities
- 4 Craft or Other Activities
- 4 Math Activities
- 4 Literacy Activities
- 4 Journal Prompts + 1 Narration Activity: If you choose to do school 5 days a week, these activities have been included to fill that day. Currently, there are suggestions of how to make each journal page on your own. Printable worksheets are being added with the updates.
Play & Learn Preschool Scope and Sequence
Enter your email in the box to receive the free Play & Learn Preschool Scope and Sequence that outlines the focus skills of each unit in the curriculum.
Themes In the Curriculum
ABC THEMES (this is the base curriculum)
The links below will take you to the blog posts for each unit to see an in depth look at all of the activities. These will be updated as the posts go live.
- Apples
- Butterflies
- Construction
- Dinosaurs
- Earth/Space
- Farm
- Goldilocks & the 3 Bears
- Hibernation
- Insects
- J is for Jump (Frogs)
- Kites
- Ladybugs
- Mittens
- Nest (Birds)
- Ocean
- Pets
- Queen Bee
- Rhymes
- Seeds/Plants
- Transportation
- Umpire/Sports
- Vegetables
- Weather
- Xray (Body)
- Yellow (Colors)
- Zoo
SEASONS/HOLIDAYS
- Winter
- Spring
- Summer
- Fall
- Valentine's Day
- Easter
- Pumpkins
- Thanksgiving
- Christmas
Extra
- 5 Senses
- Blueberries for Sal (Blueberries & Bears)
- Corduroy (Buttons & Bears)
- Community Helpers
- Gingerbread
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
- The Three Little Pigs
- Nativity
- Robot (coming soon)
- Camping (coming soon)
- Penguins (coming soon)
Do I have to complete the units in order?
No. The units have been created so that you can do them in any order; however, the graphics below show a suggested sequence for using each of the themes over the course of two years, with two-ish weeks to focus on each theme, if you would like something to follow. Again, the units do not need to be completed in a set order.
Do I have to do everything on the calendar every single day?
No. You can certainly pick and choose which activities you do. I have included SOOO much in every single theme to give you ideas and you can use those ideas to do what works best for your children. That is the beauty of homeschool and preschool. You get to play and have fun without the stress of HAVING to get to it all. Pick the activities that you have supplies for. Pick the activities that you think your kids will have the most fun with and HAVE. FUN. PLAYING. AND. LEARNING!!!! Want to spread the activities out over the course of a couple of weeks? Go for it. Does your child want to do the same activity over and over again? Let them!!!
Ready to Jump In?
Have you read through all of this and thought Yes! This is exactly what I have been looking for to teach my preschoolers? Play & Learn Preschool will prepare your children for kindergarten and they will have fun learning with the engaging hands on activities. Get started today.
Read More
Throughout the year I will be sharing blog posts for each of the themes included in the curriculum. You will be able to check out all of the preschool theme posts throughout the year to see exactly what we are doing and how we are playing and learning through the curriculum.
What Others Are Saying About Let's Play.Learn.Grow
Heidi does amazing work! I used several of her downloads for Preschool and Tot School this past year and am looking forward to a great year of Preschool with my 3 year old using her latest curriculum! Everything is laid out so clearly and it's so simple to "print and go" on busy days, or spend extra time on an activity that the boys love another day or two. Thank you for all your hard work Heidi! -Wendy
Comprehensive, challenging, and oh-so-cute! These activities are perfect for my 3-year-old who asks for "school games" everyday! Thanks for your hard work :) -Jessica
This is a great resource. I am returning back to work and my dad will be taking care of my boys. 3 years old and 18 months. This curriculum is going to be a wonderful resource to give my dad to work on skills with them while he watches them. Paired with the FB group, this is so wonderful. Thank you for all your hard work. -Pretty Little Lessons
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