Instructional videos

Each week, for 26 weeks, you will have an instructional video guiding you through that week's lesson plan. You will know how to approach each development area:

• Introducing new objectives for the coming week
• Explaining new activity types and how they benefit your child

All videos are chaptered to allow you to easily go back to a specific section at any time during the week. If you are in a hurry, videos have a speed control that allows you to 1.5x or 2x the speed.

Activities for developing language and cognitive skills

After the instructional video, you will get objectives and activity ideas for language and cognitive development. These activities and objectives often overlap or are very closely related to each other.

You will see many activities to choose from. You can pick 1 each day: it can be the same activity every day, or different ones. If your child does not like the activity you started, no problem, wait a bit or pick another one - absolutely no point in forcing something that both of you do not enjoy.

Literacy activities to choose from

Each week, for literacy, one of the objectives will be to focus on a new letter. (Yes, even if your child knows all the letters!) We go way deeper to build a foundation for your child to really understand what that letter means, how it looks, what sounds it makes, when and how to use it, how to read it, etc. This foundation built with our framework will help your child thrive in school, read for pleasure, and feel confident.

Apart from the letter focus, there will be 1 or 2 other objectives that can be integrated into that week to help build an overall solid literacy foundation.

Notice that all activities have listed an estimated time needed, so you can pick 1 activity per day to fit your schedule. All activities are light, fun, and woven into your daily lives.

Math activities to choose from

Just like with letters, we help your child build a strong number sense. This framework promotes a deeper understanding of numbers, and how they relate to each other, and the real world. Even if your child can count to 100, or more, there is so much more you can help them with to really build the foundation that is needed to become mathematically literate.

Apart from numbers, your child will master core mathematical concepts that will benefit them for years to come. 

Again, like with other skills you focus on, choose only 1 activity a day.

Fine motor activities to choose from

Fine motor development is crucial for young children to build precision, stamina, and muscles in order to prepare their hands for writing, which is an extremely taxing task for little ones. You will get an appendix of activities you can choose from to help your child develop the skills needed for future writing, drawing, opening the lunch boxes, and so on.

Activities to develop social and emotional skills

Most curriculums overlook the importance of social-emotional skills. We believe that these skills in fact are even more important than academic skills.

After all, your child's ability to relate to others, feel empathy, adapt to new situations, be able to stay safe, make good decisions, and understand themselves and their feelings, plays a far bigger role in kindergarten readiness than knowing the ABCs.

That is why we help you build these skills with a variety of activities and resources on a weekly basis.

Fun science project to wrap up the week

Every Friday (or weekend, if you choose), you and your child have an opportunity to take everything you've learned this week and apply it to a fun science project.

One of our biggest pet peeves with curriculums for little kids is the "science" projects or activities that they have, which usually are really just ways to make messes. More often than not they're more crafts than anything else because they don't explain how this is science. Mixing ingredients together to create slime doesn't make it science for kids.

With the Ready For Kindergarten And Beyond curriculum, we always tie the project back to something, whether it is to the art world: this project is going to teach your children how to actually mix colors and primary versus secondary colors and things. Or this experiment is going to teach your child about the concept of convection and how warm air rises and cold air falls. Given all of that, the why behind it, and the substance behind it, our approach to projects is quite different.