Preschool Playground

What should preschool at home look like? You’ll find as many answers to that question as you will parents who have asked it. There is not one “right” way to do preschool, but there are tools that can help you make the most out of this very special time in your child’s life. Here you will find a wealth of articles to help you determine what you want your preschool year to look like, fun tools, and academic resources you can use as a complete preschool curriculum or as learning activities you scatter throughout your days. Remember that we are always happy to help answer your questions and encourage you along the way. Please feel free to use the chat box on the lower right side of your screen or email us at CustomerService@theoldschoolhouse.com any time. God bless!

You may also choose to design your own Preschool plans with the helpful information on our Using the Preschool Playground as a Full Curriculum page. For a fully planned year of Preschool, check out our virtual  Preschool School Box.

• Adventures of Carlos Caterpillar: Go to lessons or read more.
• Bible Adventures: English: Go to lessons or read more.
• Bible Adventures: Additional Languages: See the ESL and Foreign Language Focused Learning Center.
• Preschool Playground: Bible Resources: See the Preschool Playground Additional Resources.
• Donkey Ollie and the Lord’s Prayer: Go to lessons or read more.
• Donkey Ollie and the Miracles of Jesus: Go to lessons or read more.
• Donkey Ollie and the Parables of Jesus: Go to lessons or read more.
• Donkey Ollie and the Ten Commandments: Go to lessons or read more.

• ABC with ME: Go to lessons or read more.
• This Day in History: Pre-K to Elementary: A special collection of short stories to be read aloud to your littlest history students!

• ABC: What Will I Be? Go to lessons or read more.
• All About the Alphabet: Go to lessons or read more.
• Around the World with Stories: Go to lessons or read more.
• Beginning Handwriting and Phonics: Go to lessons or read more.
• From Aardvark to Zucchini: Go to lessons or read more.
• Preschool Playground: Language Arts: Go to lessons or read more.
• Pre-K Activities: Read and Play: Go to lessons or read more.
• Sensory Learning for Toddlers: Go to lessons or read more.
• Big Ideas: Reading Videos
• Story Concentration
• Print & Do: Connect the Dots: Alphabet Bird
• Print & Do: Connect the Dots: Alphabet Cow
• Trek’s Travels
• Story Classics
• Nursery Rhymes
• Songs
• Come and Color with Me: A-B-C
• Alphabet Board Game

• Preschool in a Box: Go to lessons or read more.
• Tough Trucks: In our World Book e-Book Library.
• On the Move: In our World Book e-Book Library.
• Daily Chart: Activities with Standard and Military Times
• Daily Chart: Alphabet
• Daily Chart: Days of the Week
• Daily Chart: Months of the Year
• Daily Chart: Morning and Bedtime Routines
• Daily Chart: Numbers
• Daily Chart: Weather and Temperature
• Daily Chart: Year
• Know It: On the Move

• All About Shapes: Go to lessons or read more.
• Ditch the Desk: Fairy Tales, Piggy Math: Go to lessons or read more.
• Preschool Playground: Numbers, Patterns, and Cognitive Skills: Go to lessons or read more.
• Print & Do: Connect the Dots: Simple Pickup Truck
• Print & Do: Connect the Dots: Small Airplane
• Print & Do: Connect the Dots: Winking Tooth with Toothpaste
• Print & Do: Maze: Number Match
• Print & Do: Print and Do: Match the Frogs
• Print & Do: Print and Do: Match the Vehicle Parts
• Print & Do: Print and Do: Match the Worker with His Tools
• Print & Do: Print and Do: Matching Colorful Animals Front and Back
• Print & Do: Print and Do: Matching Monkey Shadows
• Come and Color with Me: Dinosaur 1-2-3
• Color-by-Number: Fruits, Vegetables, and Animals

• Manners and Healthy Habits for Preschool: Go to lessons or read more.
• Know It: My Body
• Stories: Caring for a Pet
• Stories: Going to the Dentist

• Ditch the Desk: Go to lessons or read more. Recommended units:
  • Fairy Tales, Snake for Supper
  • Fairy Tales, Library Fairy Parts One and Two
  • Fairy Tales, Three Little Pigs
  • Ocean Study
• Preschool Playground: Arts, Crafts & Music: Go to lessons or read more.
• Sensory Learning for Toddlers: Go to lessons or read more.
• Silly School Songs

• Charlotte Mason Preschool:Go to lessons or read more.
• Small World Sensory Science: Go to lessons or read more.
• Preschool Playground: Science Resources: See the Preschool Playground Additional Resources.
• Know It: Animal Homes
• Know It: Creepy-Crawlies
• Know It: Sea Creatures
• Know It: Terrific Trees
• Know It: Rain Forest Animals
• Know It: Weather

• Preschool Playground: Motor Skills: Go to lessons or read more.

• ABC: What Will I Be? Go to lessons or read more.
• Preschool Playground: Social Studies: Go to lessons or read more.
• Know It: People at Work
• Frontier Friends: Character Tales: Short stories (printable and audio format) and worksheets that share stories of faith on the Pennsylvania frontier.

Enjoy dozens of bright and colorful ways you can reward your little one for a job well done.

eBook

• Are Parents Really Necessary by Amelia Harper

Articles

• A Heart for Homeschooling from the Womb by Lindy Abbott
• A History of Public School Education and the Origins of Head Start by Don Calbreath
• Are You Kidding-Textbooks for My Preschoolers by Joni Downey
• Beginning Well-The Special Needs Preschooler and the Importance of Play by Randy Saller
• Choosing to Homeschool Your Preschooler by Christine Acre
• Chores and the Preschool Crowd by Kendra Fletcher
• Creating a Rich Learning Environment by W.K.
• Creating Your Own Games by Nichole Hinkle
• Creative Things to Do by Carol aka “Schoolinrhome”
• Does My Preschooler Need Preschool by Nancy Carter
• Homeschooling Preschoolers-The Natural Option by Kelly Crawford
• Keeping Preschoolers Occupied and Educated by Jill Kelly
• Multi-Teaching by Erin Lasky
• Nurturing Giftedness for the Glory of God by Carolyn Riggs
• Preschool Education by Juliebeth Lamb
• Preschool Toolbox by Dana Hanley
• Preschooling with One by Donna Conner
• Put Some Zing into Your Homeschool with Field Trips by Amy Dianne Blevins
• Should They Stay or Should They Go by Cara Boerrigter
• Teaching Preschoolers by Courtney Sanchez
• The Formal Education of Preschoolers by Deborah Googeg
• Three Camps by Diane Hurst
• Tot School by Carisa Hinson
• Adam Andrews shares a wonderful article based on the children’s book Harriet, You’ll Drive Me Wild in the January/February issue of The Old Schoolhouse(R) Magazine. You can find Harriet, You’ll Drive Me Wild: Grace for the Dog Days of Winter on page 48. Enjoy!

Expo Recordings

• • Expo Recording: Preschoolers, Planning, and Peace with Kendra Fletcher (April 2013)

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