Pre-K Curriculum
Just think, while you are cuddling on the couch reading aloud with your kids you are actually laying the foundation for the rest of their lives. When you laugh with your children doing skill-building hands-on activities together, you are making connections not only with the materials you are studying, but, with your children's understanding of what education looks like. This is Sonlight's idea of Pre-Kindergarten.
Choose your Pre-K Curriculum
Nurture a love of learning for a lifetime.
Sonlight's Pre-K curriculum takes the fear out of teaching and gives you the tools you need to succeed. You'll get just one package and inside will be everything you need for your Pre-K child to succeed in developing motor skills, visual acuity, exceptional auditory skills, and comprehension.
You'll build meaningful relationships and delightful memories with your children. You'll teach alphabet sounds and verbal skills, and work through four sequential workbooks dedicated to reading readiness, so your children will be ready for phonics next year. You'll give your children a basic understanding of the physical world around them through fundamental science concepts and prepare your children with broad foundations in Bible, art, and history.
In addition to the myriad of books you will read to your children, these components add up to a wonderfully delightful Pre-Kindergarten program that helps you give your children what they need to grow. Your children will develop key life skills, both cognitive and developmental—with new hands-on Montessori-type materials and activities all designed to address the developmental needs of young children in a fun, relaxed, and interactive environment.
Finish Pre-K with great memories, a closer relationship with your children, significant improvements in fundamental skills, and the spark for a lifelong love for learning that will continue to grow in the Sonlight years ahead.
Because you'll teach with real books, every Sonlight program works with a range of ages and allows you to teach multiple children together.
View the full Pre-K curriculum scope & sequence for additional information.
Exploring God's World
History / Bible / Literature Pre-K
Nurture a love of learning with entertaining stories from around the globe.
Age Range: 4-5
Grade: Pre-K
What's Included in our Pre-K Curriculum
Lesson Plans
Your Pre-K Sonlight Instructor's Guide takes an active role in helping you teach. This year, you'll find a daily homeschool schedule as well as helpful notes and teaching tips. Even with a more structured schedule, your Pre-K program still provides a gentle introduction to formal learning, giving you plenty of time to relax with your children as they learn. With everything planned out for you in a flexible layout, you can focus on your children and enjoy your time with them, and skip the time-consuming planning part. You'll be able to see how a schedule brings freedom to your homeschool days, as it can provide a framework for when to do school, and what to cover.
History
Pre-K starts to expand your children's knowledge of the larger world: they will be introduced to the world beyond your neighborhood. They will catch a glimpse of the variety of people and homes throughout the world, a sampling of jobs people do, and, how people lived in the past and now. Additionally, you can give your children a wonderful introduction to the Bible with the included Bible story book. Your children will be amazed as they learn about how God is working with the included missionary biographies and stories from around the world.
Read-Alouds
Studies show attitudes, fears, hopes and values are strongly influenced by story. Whether they are the stories you tell, or stories in books, stories are one of the ways that children learn to enjoy reading. In fact, the single greatest predictor of children's future success is how much they are read to as children. Reading aloud to your children greatly increases their vocabulary and attention span. Basic children's books contain wider vocabulary than most college-educated adults use in normal speech. Watch your children effortlessly learn the words they need to know through your reading.
Pre-Kindergarten Language Arts & Phonics
This year your children will begin to learn the sounds of the alphabet and expand their vocabulary. You and your children will focus on one letter per week in Dr. Seuss's ABC's and First Thousand Words. Throughout the week, your letter will continue to reappear in stories, art, and activities. This is the first step to learning to read--recognizing the sounds of letters. You'll get a variety of fun practice and reinforcement that's necessary for phonics progression appropriate to your child's age and development. With Sonlight's Pre-Kindergarten Language Arts, you are laying the foundation for early reading.
Hands-On
Children learn best by doing so we've selected tactile materials that are especially effective for reinforcing pre-writing, pre-reading, and pre-math skills. The pre-kindergarten program includes Montessori-type materials and activities that are hands-on, self-paced, and confidence-building.
Sonlight’s pre-k curriculum is a nurturing learning environment that creates fond memories, build meaningful and intimate relationships, and prepare your children for a lifetime of learning... all while developing your children's reading readiness, cognitive and developmental skills.
Science
Science, in its most basic definition, means "pursuing knowledge." With Sonlight's Pre-K Science your children will learn about life on a farm, seasons, weather, the ocean, simple machines, plants, animals and more. Perfectly targeted to this age group, your children learn science principles through vivid illustrations: from how a lever lifts, to how camouflage helps animals, to how scuba divers explore the depths of the ocean.
Other Products
Consumables
Teaching more than one student and need extra activity sheets? We've got you covered. Shop all consumables here.
Required Resources for Your Pre-K Curriculum
Required Resources are essential for first-time Sonlighters. These are necessary products for your school year and are included in Sonlight All-Subjects Packages, History / Bible / Literature Programs, and Science packages by default. Visit SmoothCourse™ to remove Required Resources from your pre-k curriculum package.
Recommended Resources
These are items that we recommend you have when using a pre-k curriculum package. To save you money, we do not include these resources in every package. You may already own one or two of them and may not want duplicates.
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