OVERVIEW We spent 2 weeks on our Letter J Unit -- two school days during week 1 and two school days during week 2. This time I really focused on sticking to The Peaceful Preschool as much as possible to minimize my overall prep. We were intermixing lots of fall-themed reading & crafts these weeks… Continue reading Letter J Preschool Unit
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Letter I Preschool Unit
OVERVIEW It took us several weeks to cover Letter I because we had a week-long family vacation in the middle and I left plenty of room to slowly re-enter our normal routine without doing too much school stuff (i.e. NOT adding stress to my life!) We covered Letter I in kind of a wide variety… Continue reading Letter I Preschool Unit
Letter G Preschool Unit
OVERVIEW For Letter G we followed some of The Peaceful Preschool curriculum for Good Night, Gorilla and Goodnight Moon. I then covered three classic stories: The Gingerbread Boy, Goldilocks and The Three Bears, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. FYI: I covered six classic stories in this blog post in more detail. And, since goats are such a hit in… Continue reading Letter G Preschool Unit
Letter E Preschool Unit
OVERVIEW Our Letter E unit days were a bit scattered, mainly spending only 3 days on this letter. We had some family vacation planned in the middle, and when we returned I didn't feel like it was needed to spend a whole other week on Letter E, so we went ahead and moved on to… Continue reading Letter E Preschool Unit
Letter D Preschool Unit
OVERVIEW For Letter D we covered The Peaceful Preschool activities plus some of my own ideas, mainly covering one week of D is for Duck and one week of D is for Dog. I moved the "Go, Dog, Go!" activities from The Peaceful Preschool curriculum from Letter G to Letter D because we were doing a… Continue reading Letter D Preschool Unit
Letter H Preschool Unit
OVERVIEW We did 4 school days for this unit over the course of 2 weeks, with some other fun learning activities mixed in. I centered each day around 4 books: Henny Penny, The Little Red Hen, The Little House, and The Three Little Pigs. Three of those are classic stories, which I covered in this blog post in more… Continue reading Letter H Preschool Unit
Letter C Preschool Unit
OVERVIEW We covered a variety of things for one week of Letter C doing The Peaceful Preschool curriculum and some other activities. Caps For Sale was probably the most impressionable and memorable: what a fantastic story! C IS FOR CAMPING We also spent an entire week on C is for Camping -- you can view that… Continue reading Letter C Preschool Unit
Classic Story Extensions for Preschool
OVERVIEW "Fairy tales don't condone poor behavior; they simply relate what occurs. Children learn very early that there are good people, bad people, kind people, cruel people, and assortments of behavior in between. And children have room in their lives for all sorts of miracles.... an active imagination [is] a token of the liberty of… Continue reading Classic Story Extensions for Preschool
Letter B Preschool Unit
OVERVIEW We spent 3 weeks on Letter B. We first did one week of B is for Bee and B is for Butterfly because it fit nicely with some field trips and seasonal learning. Then, we spend a week on The Peaceful Preschool Letter B activities for Blueberries for Sal (with some additions). For the… Continue reading Letter B Preschool Unit
Letter A Preschool Unit
OVERVIEW We spent 4 days of school in one week on A is for Apple in May, using The Peaceful Preschool as a guide (you can download the Letter A Unit for FREE here). Then, for the second week of our Letter A Unit I did 2 days of A is for Ant and 2… Continue reading Letter A Preschool Unit
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