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Welcome to Our Around the World with Stories Preschool Homeschool Course

Want to take your preschooler on a world tour? You can do that right from your living room using Around the World with Stories! Ten units introduce preschoolers to opposites, taste, smell, texture, shapes, numbers, and more while taking them on a quick trip around the world with stops in Australia, India, Southwest Asia, China, Africa, Canada, Italy, and Mexico.

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Around the World with Stories

Length: 12 weeks
Content type: eBooks
Grade: Preschool

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Getting Started with Around the World with Stories Preschool Homeschool Course

Around the World with Stories is a fun preschool homeschool course that introduces preschoolers to opposites, taste, smell, texture, shapes, numbers, and more while taking them on a quick trip around the world with stops in Australia, India, Southwest Asia, China, Africa, Canada, Italy, and Mexico.

Overview

  • 12 weeks, 3 days/week
  • Content type: 12 eBooks with Worksheets and Discussion Questions
  • Grade: Preschool

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan. Start with the Day 1 assignment. Follow the instructions each day on the lesson plan and check them off when completed.

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More About Around the World with Stories Preschool Homeschool Course

Preschoolers can learn about ways animals move, numbers one to five, opposites, place and position words, shape, size, taste, smell, textures, and time in this fun preschool around the world series.

  • Trek Learns to Fly: Join Trek and his friends as they learn about migration and flight.

  • Trek Learns About Moving Around: Trek and his friends find themselves in the Australian bush, helping a young Aboriginal boy look for his boomerang. They ask several other animals to help in the search. They all set off through the bush, each character moving in its own, individual way. This story introduces different ways of moving and the vocabulary used to describe these movements.

  • Trek Learns About Numbers: Trek and his friends join in a big parade in India. Along the way, there are things to look at and count. At the end of the story, Trek takes a photo of the group. Here the words “one” to “five” are brought together with the numerals 1 to 5. This is an opportunity for children to count, match, and sort.

  • Trek Learns About Opposites: Trek and his friends are having a bad day. Each time they plan to do something, the opposite happens. Children will enjoy joining in the repeated phrases and trying to guess what the opposite might be.

  • Trek Learns About Place: Learn about Trek’s trip into a desert of Southwest Asia. As children read the story, they are introduced to many new ideas of place and position, such as “into,” “under,” “near,” and “between.”

  • Trek Learns About Shapes: Trek and his friends travel through China and solve a number of puzzles. Trek succeeds in solving the puzzles by looking at the shapes of everyday objects. As children read through the story, they look for and name four basic shapes—circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles.

  • Trek Learns About Size: Trek flies away to Africa in a hot-air balloon. Far below, on the grassy plains, he sees many animals of different sizes. Trek’s adventure provides many opportunities to explore the ideas of size. Both the vocabulary and ideas of size are extended by comparing and contrasting the different animals that Trek encounters.

  • Trek Learns About Taste and Smell: Trek and his friends suddenly feel hungry. They land in a Canadian forest where Wagtail, Crow, and Seagull find plenty of tasty food to eat. But Trek is not tempted by any of it. Many other animals offer Trek a share of their food. Each time, the animals describe the smell and taste of the food they like. But Trek doesn’t like any of the animals’ food. Finally, Trek meets some people camping in the forest and is invited to share their delicious supper.

  • Trek Learns About Texture: Trek and his friends visit Signora Pittipatti’s restaurant in Italy. Here, they feast on a selection of leftover food that Signora Pittipatti offers them. Each of the birds describes the food it is eating. The birds talk about their food using words to describe texture—rough, dry, crumbly, soft, cold, crisp, chewy, slippery, wriggly, hard, juicy, crunchy, smooth, and creamy. All these are words that children will enjoy hearing and repeating.

  • Trek Learns About Sounds: Join Trek in Thailand as he “listens carefully” to hear the sounds around him.

  • Trek Learns About Colors: Join Trek on a rain forest adventure in South America. The first part introduces each of the primary colors by name. In the second part, children in the rain forest join Trek and mix primary colors together to make secondary colors.

  • Trek Learns About Time: Join Trek and his friends in Mexico. The story uses familiar time concepts such as “time to get up” and “bedtime.” These ideas are linked with the hands moving on the clock. The clock helps young children to understand that time is something we measure and that we use a clock to organize our activities during the day.

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Course Outline for Around the World with Stories Preschool Homeschool Course

This preschool around the world homeschool course introduces students to opposites, taste, smell, texture, shapes, numbers, and more while taking them on a quick trip around the world.

  • Week 1: Trek Learns to Fly
  • Week 2: Trek Learns About Moving Around
  • Week 3: Trek Learns About Numbers
  • Week 4: Trek Learns About Opposites
  • Week 5: Trek Learns About Place
  • Week 6: Trek Learns About Shapes
  • Week 7: Trek Learns About Size
  • Week 8: Trek Learns About Taste and Smell
  • Week 9: Trek Learns About Texture
  • Week 10: Trek Learns About Sounds
  • Week 11: Trek Learns About Colors
  • Week 12: Trek Learns About Time

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Quick Start

1.  Bookmark the course for easy access during instruction.

2. Click “View Lesson Plan” and organize as desired (on computer desktop or in a printed format). 

3.  Gather necessary resources as listed in the lesson plan.

4.  Click “Go to Class Lessons” and get started.

5.  Enjoy the course!

6.  Utilize Applecore or your own record keeping system throughout the course.

7.  Print a certificate of completion.

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