Easy To Follow Weekly Schedule
Whether you're a stay-at-home mom or a working mom, the Ready For Kindergarten And Beyond curriculum gives you an easy-to-follow system that you can make to fit your schedule.
Monday-Thursday activities, Friday a project, all designed to support essential skills development.
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Each week, you'll get:
1. Ready prepared materials list
2. Weekly mindset videos for guidance
3. Done for you lesson plans
4. Project idea with instructions
Materials list
Each week, you'll get a list of all materials used that week so you can plan ahead, and get them over the weekend.
Materials list includes:
- Household materials for all possible activities during the week
- PDFs for printable pages for activities
- Book suggestions to accompany the specific lesson activities
All the planning is done for you and organized into an easy-to-use list.
MINDSET SESSION
Every week you'll get a quick 8-12min video for you to get aligned with that week's focus. You'll go into the week full of confidence and armed with new techniques.
INSTRUCTIONS & LESSON PLAN
Every week you'll have a fully prepared lesson plan with written and video instructions on how to blend activities into your daily lives.
Choose 1 activity from each area every day from Monday till Thursday. The total time estimated for daily activities is 45 minutes.
FRIDAY PROJECT
Every week on Friday you'll have a chance to wrap up what you've learned through a fun science-based project.
A method to the structure
When choosing your daily activities you can be assured that each one of them helps your child build essential skills and is hand-picked and created for this week.
When we designed the curriculum, the activities, and projects were the result, not the starting point.
First, we made sure to incorporate all key development areas that need to be covered for a holistic preschool experience: language, literacy, math, fine motor, cognitive, social, and emotional.
Then we looked at those areas and mapped out the desired skills in kindergarten within those developmental areas.
Which were then broken down into monthly milestones that build on top of each other, and support each other across the developmental areas.
Those monthly milestones then were broken down into weekly objectives, which allowed us to design a set of activities to support your child's development in all key areas systematically.
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Research-based milestones and activities
There were 3 main principles kept in mind when designing the activities:
- Preschoolers learn best through play and experiences
- Our daily lives are full of learning opportunities
- Activities must be aligned with the latest research on the best practices of how young children learn (CASEL, Phonics, KG common core)
Guided by these principles, we have designed the activities in a way that allows you to blend learning into your daily lives and start noticing the learning opportunities around you. This approach minimizes the "structured" learning time and makes sure that you'll be able to preschool at home without needing to dedicate half a day every day to make that happen.