What Will We Study?

Students will revisit these skills throughout the year, mastering them in preparation for kindergarten.

Logic & Thinking Skills or Readiness Skills

• Sorting
• Sequencing
• Categorizing
• Tactile Awareness
• Guessing & Conclusions
• Print Concepts and Writing Left to Right
• Same & Different, Comparisons
• Telephone Skills
• Fine Motor Skills

Language Skills

• Rhyming
• Distinguishing Syllables
• Letter Sounds – A to Z (You can pair this with just our Phonics Cards (LA-201) or the whole Pre-K/K Letters to Little Words LA program for even more phonics instruction)
• Distinguishing First-Letter Sounds in Words
• Sound Discrimination
• Blending Sounds
• Separating Sounds
• Sound Manipulation
• Beginning Handwriting
• Recognizing Typed Letters
• Word Building
• Beginning Sight Words – am, can, see, and, are, a, at, is, go, like, here, my, you, the, dad, mom, I, to, me, we, look, love, was, said
• High Frequency Words
• Recognizing Word Meaning

Math Skills

• Counting 1-3, 1-5, 1-10, 1-13, 1-19
• Number Names
• Number Recognition, Increasing in Speed
• Writing Numerals
• Pattern Recognition
• Calendar
• Time & Clocks
• Liquid Volume
• Measuring, in Inches, Feet, and Yards
• Judging Distance
• Shapes:  Circle, Square, Triangle, Rectangle, Oval
• Pairs
• Arranging in Order
• Money & Cost – Pennies, and Later, Nickels
• Beginning Addition
• Beginning Subtraction
• Number Manipulation
• Story Problems

What’s in the I’m Ready to Learn Guide?

CHECK OUT THE READY TO LEARN GUIDE!
Click into these, and find samples under the resource picture.

• GUIDE:  I’m Ready to Learn Guidebook
• PLUS! Only in Ebook or Mixed Bundles!  EBOOK:  I’m Ready to Learn Additional Student Pack

Your preschool guide can be thought of as your “assistant teacher” this year.  It does all the work for you, and you get to enjoy learning along with your student.  It is designed to be easy to follow, with each week’s assignments laid out on just one page!  The introduction to the guide offers you oodles of teaching helps that may feel like Charlotte Mason just “friended” you — like advice she’d give you on how to grade student work!  And each week, you’ll love the “Teaching Time Strategies” that it feels like Charlotte herself sent along!  So easy to use!

A 36-week schedule that’s simple and gets you on your way to an easily-paced day for your youngest learners.  This comprehensive guide book includes alphabet and reading activities, such as making word puzzles or creating alphabet crowns.  Math activities are also included that get young learners counting, adding, and subtracting.  Art activities support this guide’s four themes, and build letter, shape, and color recognition while developing motor skills.

Activities in the guide are extremely easy to do with little to no prep, and simple or no supplies.  The guide schedules all these resources and you’ll find the activities will blend in easily between the other learners in your household.  Includes library book suggestions that will accent weekly study topics.

A set of student pages and helps is included for one student, including color pages.

• A 36-week, 4-day schedule is laid out clearly in a grid-style on just one page
• Introductory material helps you mentor and “learn together” with your student
• Supply lists and other helps make planning quick and painless
• Narration ideas in the front of the guide help you prompt your student through the year
• Weekly schedule page reduces your paperwork and is easy to follow, with clear notes
• “Teaching Time Strategies” each week make it easy to bring in other experiences for your student
• Huge guide offers a focus on activities that are “Open & Go!”
• Library suggestions are included to allow you to add your own family’s take on each weekly topic
• Websites are offered weekly to take your student to farms, zoos, and more!
• Above all, WP offers a practical, “Can-Do-and-Want-To-Do!” approach

What Materials are Included?

This program is designed for students ages 4-5, who are showing an interest in learning, but are still too young for formalized education

I’m Ready to Learn Guide Features . . .

• Phonics, Math & Creative Activities Each Week
• Awesome Introductory Material
• Weekly “Teaching Time Strategies” That Take the Learning Further
• Websites That Really Excite Your Students

Skills Resources

• Make-a-Letter Hands-On Pack
• Letter-by-Letter Blank Book
• I’m Ready to Learn Student Pages

Enhancement Resources – Scheduled but Not Sold In Our Packages

• Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder ISBN #  978-0064400039
• Complete Zoo Adventure by Gary Parker and Mary Parker ISBN # 978-0890515006
• One Small Square: Pond by Donald Silver and Patricia Wynne  ISBN # 978-0070579323
• One Small Square: Backyard by Donald Silver and Patricia Wynne ISBN #  978-0070579309

How Do I Use Ebook Versions?

The I’m Ready to Learn guide is the only item available in ebook for this program.  It makes it easy to print student pages from one section, and can be utilized from a tablet, laptop, or computer.  With the ebook version, simply click on website links and away you go!

It displays the guide in full color, and can be printed if you like.  Plus, you can print out extra student sheets if you are schooling more than one student, or if you want to use the program again in a few years with a younger student.

I’m Ready to Learn FAQ’s

I Have Other Older Students.  How Much Time Will This Program Take Every Day?
This program is designed to be completed in small chunks of time, so it works neatly in between the work you are doing with other students.  It can be done while the older kids do morning chores, just before nap time, or while you are folding laundry.

How Much Prep Does This Program Require?
It requires very little to none, depending on how you use it.  It is possible to go through the program and never prep a thing, just “Open & Go!” everything, so long as you have a reasonable set of supplies in a craft cupboard such as crayons, glue sticks, scissors, glitter, paper plates, paper bags, etc.  Some assignments that require “prep” are actually just having you collect groups of items from around the house, which can be done with your student, or you can have an older student participate by helping you gather the fun stuff.  Plus, your guide provides ready to use worksheets, projects, and other paper crafts, all ready to go.  So the answer is — little to none.