Please check here for a complete explanation of the content of the early learning courses.
Preschool is mainly meant to prepare students as readers. (You can read my Learning to Read Philosophy here.) Once they can read well, they can do anything. I will also do counting and some basics like shapes, colors, and crafts for small-motor skill practice.
This course is recommended to be used at age 4. If your four-year old isn’t getting it, wait six months and try again. I had two children each start at three, four, and five years old. The children who started at three were starting to pick up sounds and letters and words by asking questions. They were “reading books” by pointing to each word and asking what it was. Basically, they were showing they were ready and interested and motivated to start learning to read.
Your child can watch the videos independently, but they are little and are going to need a parent or older sibling to guide and help. I will put things in bold that a parent or older sibling needs to do with or for the child. It would be great if you would interact with your child with the animal pictures and the alphabet phonetic sounds like I describe. There are many lessons that have something to print which are marked with an *. Those are all found in both the offline workbook and in the printables for the course. Those can be bought from Amazon so you don’t have to print anything. (You can choose to print out the printables if you want.)
Below, and on the first day, there are links to print out a 100+ page packet of printables for this course. This is also available as a printed book of worksheets. These are the worksheets that you will need to do the online course. (There are offline options below.)
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This is the Black and White version of the site printables (worksheets to use with the online course, including optional pages). The color pictures either print in grayscale, or they have been changed to black outline pictures so that they can be colored in. NO NEED to get the workbook as well. This will have all you need.
Buy B&W Edition – Print B&W Edition
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This is the COLOR version of the site printables (worksheets to use with the online course, including optional coloring pages). It is mostly black and white; the crafts are in color. The offline course workbook has much more color in it. NO NEED to get the workbook as well. This will have all you need. (The color version may not be available in some countries.)
Buy COLOR Edition (US only) – Print COLOR Edition
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Here is a PDF of the animal alphabet stories if you’d like a copy to follow along with.
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Want to go offline? You can get this COMPLETE COURSE as a workbook in order to work offline. You can choose color or the black and white version. They both contain the same worksheets and lessons. The black and white version either has the color pictures in grayscale, or I was able to get most crafts as black outline pictures so that they could be colored in. There is no need to get the Printables if you have the workbook. It’s all in there.
Materials:
- Basic Supplies list
- Lesson 4 – Yarn, just to hang something with
- Lesson 69 – Brass fastener (or paper clip)
- Lesson 75 – Cotton balls
- Lesson 120 – yarn, clear tape
- Lesson 171 – Six-sided game die
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Lesson 1* (Note that an asterisk * indicates that there is a worksheet on this lesson)
Welcome to your first day of school! I wanted to give you one important reminder before you begin. Many of your lessons below have an internet link for you to click on. When you go to the different internet pages for your lessons, please DO NOT click on anything else on that page except what the directions tell you to. DO NOT click on any advertisements or games. DO NOT click on anything that takes you to a different website. Just stay focused on your lesson and then close that window and you should be right back here for the next lesson. Okay?
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- Listen to the Alphabet Song.
- Learn about the letter A.
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- Look at the letter A.
- *Print out the printables workbook (190 pages) or buy as a workbook to avoid printing. (Click on Lesson 1 in My EP to go to the course page and see the options.)
- *Use Lesson 1 of your workbook and color in the alligator. Talk about how she says “Aaaaa!” all the time because she’s scared of everything. (A as in cat)
- Listen to a story about April the Alligator. These will work on mobile devices. You click on the screen to turn the page on the computer and swipe to turn the page on a cell phone or tablet. Click on the speaker image to listen to the letters and stories. (We previously had these on videos with boy and girl versions of the stories. These are still available on our YouTube page as a playlist. Abraham the Alligator / April the Alligator)
- This is the end of your work for your first day. You are allowed to move at your own pace (this is homeschooling), but it’s intended you complete one lesson a day.
Lesson 2*
- Listen to the Alphabet Song. Sing along if you can! And learn about the letter A.
- Look at the letter A.
- *Use Lesson 2 of your workbook. Have your child trace the letters with a finger. Afterwards just have them trace between the lines of the bubble letters and then color them in. If your child is advanced in small motor skills, you can have them trace the dotted lines, but as far as my houseful of boys is concerned, it’s too early at this point.
- Don’t forget to talk about April the Alligator that says “Aaaaa!” Point out that her name starts with A.
Lesson 3*
- Listen to the Alphabet Song Sing along!
- Learn about the letter A.
- Listen to a story about April the Alligator. Click the speaker first. Then click anywhere on the page to forward to the story page.
- *Use Lesson 3 from the workbook. Have your child cut and glue the alligator. Show your child how to hide behind the paper and talk like he is the alligator. Say, “Hi, I’m April the Alligator. I like to say, “Aaaaa!” Demonstrate and then have your child do it.
Lesson 4*
- Listen to the Alphabet Song. Sing along! And Look at the letter A.
- *Use Lesson 4 and cut and paste the apple. You might want to attach yarn.
- Listen to a story about April the Alligator. Click the speaker first. Then click anywhere on the page to forward to the story page.
- Listen to the Alphabet Song. Sing along! And Learn about the letter A.
- Read some books together and hunt in your books for the letter A and things that start with an “Aaaaa” sound.
Lesson 6*
- Listen to the Alphabet Song. Sing along!
- Learn about the letter B. Click on the Letter B.
- Look at the letter B.
- *Use Lesson 6 in your workbook. Color in the bee. Point out the letter B and say “buh, buh…” You could say that she buzzes when she’s going fast, but when she runs out of steam and gets tired she goes, “Buh, buh, buh…”
- Listen to a story about Betty the Bee.
Lesson 7*
- Listen to the Alphabet Song. Sing along!
- Learn about the letter B.
- *Use Lesson 7 of your workbook. Have your child trace the letter with a finger and then color it in. Show your child how to start at the top of each letter and to jump back up to the top after the first line. Talk about Betty the Bee and the letter B and the sound “buh.”
Lesson 8*
- Listen to the alphabet song. Sing along!
- Listen to a B song.
- Listen to a story about Betty the Bee.
- *Use Lesson 8 in your workbook. Find all of the letter B’s. You can give your child a crayon to mark each B as it is found. It’s okay to just color over the letter or to draw a line through it. You can read it to your child, but the point is practicing identifying the letter B.
- Act out April and Betty talking together and making their sounds.
Lesson 9*
- Listen to the alphabet song. Sing along!
- Learn about the sound of the letter B.
- *Complete a bee handprint paper craft. Use the worksheet for Lesson 9.
Lesson 10
- Listen to the alphabet song. Sing along!
- Learn about the letter B.
- Look at the letter B.
- Listen to a story about Betty the Bee.
- Read some books together and hunt in your books for the letter B and things that start with a “buh” sound.
- (*)Here’s a coloring page if you want it. (*) means there’s something to print, but it’s really optional, not needed to complete the lesson.
Lesson 11*
- Listen to the Alphabet Song.
- Learn about the letter C. Click on the Letter C block.
- Look at the letter C.
- *Use Lesson 11 and color in the cat. Talk about how she opens her mouth wide and says “c, c, c” as she hacks up a hair ball
Don’t worry about the “s” sound that C sometimes makes. That will come later.
- Listen to a story about Cathy the Cat.
Lesson 12*
- Listen to the Alphabet Song. Sing along if you can! And Learn about the Letter C.
- *Use Lesson 12 in your workbook. Have your child trace the letters with a finger. Afterwards have them color in the bubble letters.
- Don’t forget to talk about Cathy the Cat that says “C.” Point out that her name starts with C.
- If your child has a hard time pronouncing C, have him place a finger on his or her tongue to hold it down to practice.
Lesson 13*
- Listen to a song about the Letter C.
- *Complete a 3D paper cat craft by using Lesson 13. Glue the heads back to back. Then cut the slits.
- Listen to a story about Cathy the Cat.
Lesson 14(*)(This means it is optional to print, not needed to complete the lesson.)
- Listen to the Alphabet Song. Sing along! And Learn about the Letter C.
- Look at the letter C.
- (*)Here’s a coloring page, Lesson 14.
Lesson 15
- Learn about the letter C.
- Listen to a story about Cathy the Cat.
- Act out April the Alligator saying “aaaa” and Betty the Bee saying “b, b, b” and Cathy the Cat saying “c, c, c.”
- Read some books together and hunt in your books for the letter C and things that start with a “c” sound, as in cat.
- Can you do this cow puzzle?
Lesson 16*
- Listen to the ABC song.
- Look at the color blue.
- Look at circles.
- *Color the circle blue in Lesson 16 of your workbook.
- Review A, B, C. These reviews auto-play the sound when each slide appears.
Lesson 17
- Learn about the letter A.
- *Use Lesson 17 of your workbook.
- On the first page, have your child trace the letter with a finger. Afterwards just have him color it in BLUE.
- Make a circle book: Cut out the circles using today’s print out and staple them together. Or, use paper plates, a hole punch, and yarn to make a circle book. Have your child draw circles on every page.
- On the first page, have your child trace the letter with a finger. Afterwards just have him color it in BLUE.
Lesson 18*
Lesson 19*
- Learn about the letter B.
- *Use Lesson 19 of your workbook. Have your child trace the letter with a finger. Afterwards have color it in BLUE.
- Listen to a story about April, Betty, and Cathy. Click on the dancing alligator to start.
Lesson 20*
Lesson 21*
- Listen to the alphabet song.
- Learn about the letter D.
- Look at the letter D.
- *Use Lesson 21 in your workbook. Color in the dog. Talk about how she opens her mouth wide and says, “Duh,” whenever someone asks her if she can do a trick.
- Listen to a story about Danielle the Dog.
Lesson 22*
- Learn about the letter D.
- *Use Lesson 22 in your workbook.
- On the first page, have your child trace the letters with a finger. Color it in BLUE.
- Don’t forget to talk about Danielle the Dog says, “Duh.” Point out that her name starts with D.
- Find the Ds in the verse on the second page of today’s lesson print out. After you color in the Letter D everywhere you find it, if you like, you could color the rest of the letters in other colors.
- A NOTE on the verses: These are just my versions of verses. I didn’t put in references because they aren’t taken straight from scripture as a complete verse. I adapted verses for the purposes of these lessons. Some are parts of different verses combined to get more of the target letter. All true, just adapted. (Example: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday… I changed to, “You, Jesus, are the same…” because I wanted something that started with a capital Y.)
Lesson 23*
- Listen to a song about the letter D.
- *Use Lesson 23 of the workbook.
- On the first page, find all of the letter D’s.
- On the next page, make a Dalmatian.
- Listen to a story about Danielle the Dog.
Lesson 24*
Lesson 25
- Listen to the alphabet song.
- Paint a picture ALL BLUE.
- Learn about the letter D.
- Listen to a story about Danielle the Dog.
- Act out April the Alligator saying “Aaaa” and Betty the Bee saying “buh, buh, buh” and Cathy the Cat saying “ck, ck, ck” and Danielle the Dog saying “duh, duh, duh.”
- Read some books together and hunt in your books for the letter D and things that start with an “d” sound, as in dog.
Lesson 26*
- Learn about the letter E.
- Look at the letter E.
- *Use Lesson 26 of your workbook and color in the elephant. Talk about how when she has trouble making a decision. She stands there and just says, “Eeeeeeee…” The E is the short vowel sound, like in met.
- Listen to a story about Elizabeth the Elephant.
Lesson 27*
Lesson 28*
- Learn about the Letter E.
- *Use Lesson 28 in your workbook.
- On the first page, find the letter E. After you color in every place where you find the Letter E, you could color the other letters in a different color.
- On the second page, practice drawing lines. Start each line at the smiley face. This is practice for writing letters. When we write letters, we start at the top.
- Listen to a story about Elizabeth the Elephant.
Lesson 29*
Lesson 30*
- Sing the Alphabet Song.
- Learn about the letter E.
- Listen to a story about Elizabeth the Elephant.
- *Make a blue circle picture using Lesson 30 in your workbook. Have your child glue them onto a piece of paper. It doesn’t have to make a picture. It can be modern art.
Lesson 31*
- Learn about the letter F.
- *Use Lesson 31 of your workbook. Color in the fish. Talk about how Faith says “ffff” when she’s being fried.
- Listen to a story about Faith the Fish.
- Put together a fish puzzle.
Lesson 32*
- Learn about the Letter F.
- *Use Lesson 32 in your workbook. Have your child trace the letters with a finger. Remember to have them start at the top and then jump back up to the top to trace the lines across. Color the letters in BLUE.
- Don’t forget to talk about Faith the Fish. Point out that her name starts with an F.
Lesson 33*
Lesson 34*
Lesson 35*
- Learn about the letter F.
- * Use Lesson 35 in your workbook. Find the letter F. Color in the Bible verse page if you like.
- Read some books together and hunt in your books for the letter F and things that start with an “f” sound.
- Listen to a story about Faith the Fish.
Lesson 36*
- Learn about the letter D.
- Look at these triangles:
- Look at the color green .
- *Use Lesson 36 in your workbook to make a triangle Christmas tree.
- Review D, E, F.
- Listen to a story about Danielle, Elizabeth, and Faith.
Lesson 37*
- Learn about the letter E.
- *Use Lesson 37 of your workbook. Find and color all of the letter E’s. Use green.
- Make green. Look at the second idea, Green Finger Paint, or use food coloring in dough or water to mix yellow and blue.
- You can also use this game to mix yellow and blue to make green. Then you can play the game and do what it tells you.
Lesson 38
- Learn about the letter E.
- Make a letter E out of clay or playdough. If you don’t have clay, mix 1/2 cup of margarine/butter with 1/2 cup of flour. Or make your own playdough. Use green clay/dough!
- Make other letters too if you like.
- Go through your animals and make them talk! Make sure you use their names and sounds!
Lesson 40*
- Look at these triangles.
- Look at the color green.
- Listen to a story about April and friends.
- Listen to this animal sounds song.
- (*)Use Lesson 40 and color a frog green if you like.
Lesson 41*
- Sing the alphabet song.
- Learn about the letter G.
- Look at the letter G.
- *Use Lesson 41 of your workbook. Color in the goat. Tell your child that Greg says, “Guh, guh, guh” when he’s snorting and banging his hoof on the ground, getting ready to butt someone to get out of his territory! Act out Alligator wandering over to Greg, and Greg says, “Guh, guh, guh, get out of here!” and Alligator says, “AAAAAA!”
- Listen to a story about Greg.
Lesson 42*
Lesson 43*
Lesson 44*
Lesson 45
- Learn about the letter G
- Want to do a puzzle? At the top click on the arrow next to 40 pieces and change it to 12.
- *Use Lesson 45 of your workbook. Color the triangles green and blue.
- Listen to a story about Greg.
- Read some books together and hunt in your books for the letter G and things that start with a “guh” sound, as in gate.
Lesson 46*
- Listen to the Alphabet Song!
- Learn about the letter H.
- Look at the letter H.
- *Use Lesson 46 of the workbook. Talk about Harold and how it’s hard for him to run fast and when he tries to run he sounds like this, “h, h, h…” Color in the picture.
- Listen to a story about Harold.
Lesson 47*
- Learn about the Letter H.
- Listen to a song about the letter H.
- *Use Lesson 47 in your workbook.
- On the first page, find the letter H, color the Bible verse.
- Practice drawing lines on the second page. Start each line at the smiley face.
- Talk like Harold, “h, h, h.”
- Make a letter H by painting, or using clay, arranging spaghetti, or anything else!
Lesson 48
Lesson 49*
- Listen to a song about the Letter H.
- *Do a craft! Use Lesson 49 in your workbook to make a house. Turn the H into a house. Make the spaces the door and window. Add a roof, shingles, flowers, etc. What color will your house be?
- Talk like Harold and all the other animals. Make sure you connect the alphabet letter name with the sound the letter (animal) makes
Lesson 50
- Learn about the letter H.
- Listen to a story about Harold.
- Trace your hand on a piece of paper. Hand starts with H. If you like, trace it with the fingers pointing down so that you can turn it into a horse. The fingers are the four legs and the thumb is the head.
- Read some books together and hunt in your books for the letter H and things that start with an “h” sound, as in hat.
Lesson 51*
- Learn about the letter I.
- Look at the letter I.
- *Use Lesson 51 of the workbook. Color in the iguana green. The iguana is obnoxious. He likes to wake people up by pretending to be a beeping alarm clock. He sneaks up to them and says, loudly, “I…I…I…I.” (the short vowel sound for I, like in hit)
- Listen to a story about Isaac the Iguana.
Lesson 52*
- Learn about the letter I.
- Talk like Isaac!
- *Use Lesson 52 in your workbook.
- On the first page, find the letter I, color in the Bible verse page.
- Practice drawing circles. Start at the smiley faces. When there aren’t any smiley faces, they should still start at the top! They just need to think for themselves where they are supposed to start.
Lesson 53*
- *Use Lesson 53 in your workbook.
- Trace the letters with your finger and color it in green. Green starts with G!
- Find all the I’s in the story.
- Listen to a story about Isaac the Iguana.
- Listen to the Alphabet song.
- Make an igloo. (You could use sugar cubes too.)
Lesson 54*
- Listen to songs about the Letter I and Letter I Song.
- *Use Lesson 54 in your workbook to connect the dots in the order of the alphabet song, a, b, c, d, e, f, g… .
- Talk like the animals!
Lesson 55*
- Learn about the letter I.
- Listen to a story about Isaac the Iguana.
- Read some books together and hunt in your books for the letter I and things that start with an “i” sound, as in igloo or ice.
- Listen to the alphabet song.
- *Use Lesson 55 in your workbook. Color them in blue and green. Cut them out and staple them into a triangle book or glue them together into a picture or collage.
Lesson 56
- Learn about the letter I.
- Look at the letter I.
- Can you make a fancy letter I? Make a letter I out of clay or play dough or out of noodles or Duplos or anything else. You can just make it or glue it down.
- Review G, H, I.
- Listen to a story about Greg, Harold, and Isaac.
Lesson 57*
- Learn about the letter H.
- *Find all the H’s in the story in Lesson 57.
- Do a horse jigsaw puzzle. You can click on Preview at the top if you want help.
Lesson 58*
- Learn about the letter I.
- Listen to a story.
- Play this shape game.
- Look at the color red.
- *Use Lesson 59 in your workbook and color the square in red. Cut it out. If you fold it in half and then again the other way, you can make four squares, and then they could cut out those four squares.
Lesson 60*
Lesson 61*
- Learn about the letter J.
- Look at the letter J.
- Watch this alphabet video.
- *Use Lesson 61 of your workbook. Color in the jaguar. He makes the “j” sound as he dances around.
- Listen to a story about John the Jaguar.
Lesson 62*
- Learn about the Letter J.
- *Use the Lesson 62 page in your workbook.
- Find the letter J. Color in the Bible verse.
- Practice drawing lines. Start at the smiley faces, and then still start at the top when there are no smiley faces.
- Hunt around the house for things that start with the letter J. What did you find?
- Do things that start with the letter j: jump, jiggle, jerk.
- Watch a shape video.
Lesson 63*
- Learn about the Letter J.
- *Use Lesson 63 of your workbook .
- Trace the letters with your finger and color them in green. Green starts with G!
- Find all the J’s in the story.
- Listen to a story about John the Jaguar.
- Play “I spy something red.”
Lesson 64*
Lesson 65
- Learn about the letter J.
- Listen to a story about John the Jaguar.
- Watch this neat sign language alphabet video.
- (*)If you like, color a jeep, Lesson 65.
Lesson 66*
- Learn about the letter K.
- Look at the letter K.
- Make the letter K with your body.
- *Use Lesson 66 in your workbook. Color in the kangaroo. In the story the “K, K, K” is the sound of a ticking watch.
- Listen to a story about Keith the Kangaroo.
Lesson 67
Lesson 68*
- Listen to an abc song and learn about the Letter K.
- *Use Lesson 68 in your workbook.
- Find the K’s. Color in the picture.
- Practice drawing lines. Start at the top!
- Listen to a story about Keith the Kangaroo.
Lesson 69*
- The letter K starts the word “kindness.” Listen to this K is for Kindness song.
- Learn about the letter K.
- *Use Lesson 69 in your workbook and do a kaleidoscope craft.
Lesson 70
- Listen to a story about Keith the Kangaroo.
- Watch this song about shapes.
- *Use Lesson 70 in your workbook to do the kangaroo craft.
Lesson 71*
- Learn about the letter L.
- Look at the letter L.
- *Use Lesson 71 of your workbook. In the story you will hear that the lion loves to say his name, “Llllllllllee!”
- Make the letter L with your body.
- Listen to a story about Lee the Lion.
Lesson 72
Lesson 73*
- Learn about the Letter L.
- *Use Lesson 73 in your workbook.
- Find all the Ls in the story.
- Practice drawing lines.
- Listen to a story about Lee the Lion.
Lesson 74*
- Listen to a story about the Letter L and listen to an alphabet song.
- *Use Lesson 74 in your workbook and color in the Letter L each place you find it.
- Don’t forget to talk about the animals, their names, letters and sounds.
Lesson 75*
- Learn about the letter L.
- Listen to a story about Lee the Lion.
- *Use Lesson 75 in your workbook. Cut out the sheep and glue it onto another piece of paper if you like and make a scene. Glue cotton balls onto the sheep to make him fluffy!
- Watch a song about shapes.
Lesson 76
- Listen to the alphabet song.
- Look at the color yellow.
- Review J, K, L.
- Listen to a story about Lee, Keith, and John.
Lesson 77
- Learn about the letter J.
- Look at the shape rectangle.
- Solve a puzzle. Choose puzzles and then any picture you like. Is anything in your picture yellow?
Lesson 78*
- Learn about the letter K.
- *Use Lesson 78 in your workbook. Find the letter Ks in the story.
- Paint a picture yellow.
Lesson 79(*)
- Match the shapes. Click on the bottom right choice both times to see the pictures. See if you can match the shape pictures. (Turn off your ad blocker.)
- You will need a laptop, chromebook, or desktop computer for EP. Not all links will work on mobile devices. If you are using a mobile device, this activity will send you to their paid app. You may be able to set your browser to Desktop Mode to try to bypass that. Directions here.
- Learn about the letter L.
- Listen to a song about the Letter L.
- (*)Make a letter L with clay or playdough or noodles or anything else. If you want, your child can glue things onto this L.
Lesson 80*
Lesson 81*
- Clean up the color yellow!
- Learn about the letter M.
- Look at the letter M.
- *Use Lesson 81 in your workbook. You can color the picture. She says, “Mmm” when she eats her favorite food.
- Listen to a story about Michelle the Monkey.
Lesson 82*
Lesson 83*
- Listen to Cookie Monster talk about the Letter M and listen to the M song.
- *Use Lesson 83 in your workbook.
- Find the Letter M in the verse.
- Practice drawing lines.
- Listen to a story about Michelle the Monkey.
Lesson 84
- Listen to this Letter M song.
- *Use Lesson 84 in your workbook and complete the shapes craft.
- Talk about all the animals, their names, letters and sounds. Have fun!
Lesson 85*
- Learn about the letter M.
- Listen to a story about Michelle the Monkey.
- *Use Lesson 85 in your workbook and make a mountain.
Lesson 86*
- Learn about the letter N.
- Look at the letter N.
- *Use Lesson 86 of the workbook. You can color the picture. She sounds like “Nnnn…” because she has a cold.
- Listen to a story about Nicole the Nuthatch.
Lesson 87
Lesson 88*
- Learn about the letter N.
- *Use Lesson 88 in your workbook.
- Find all the N’s. Color in the Bible verse picture.
- Practice drawing lines.
- Listen to a story about Nicole the Nuthatch.
Lesson 89
Lesson 90*
- Learn about the letter N.
- Look at the letter N.
- Listen to a story about Nicole the Nuthatch.
- *Use Lesson 90 in your workbook and make a nest.
Lesson 91*
- Learn about the letter O.
- Look at the letter O.
- *Use Lesson 91 in your workbook. Color in the octopus. She says the short “o” sound “ah” as in hot and pot. She always thinks that she’s getting tonsillitis. She asks people to look in her mouth to check her tonsils. She opens her mouth and says, “ah…”
- Listen to a story about Olivia the Octopus.
Lesson 92*
Lesson 93*
- Learn about the letter O.
- Talk about the animals and what sounds they make, especially Olivia saying “ah.”
- *Use the Lesson 93 in your workbook.
- Find all the O’s. Color in the Bible verse.
- Practice drawing circles.
- Make letter O’s with things in your house. (yarn, belt, towel, arms, legs, what else?)
- Listen to a story about Olivia the Octopus.
Lesson 94
Lesson 95*
- Learn about the letter O.
- Look at the letter O.
- Listen to a story about Olivia the Octopus.
- *Use Lesson 95 in your workbook and make an octopus.
Lesson 96
- Learn about the letter M.
- Review M, N, O.
- Listen to a story about Nicole, Michelle, and Olivia.
- Look at the color orange. Click on the images to enlarge.
Lesson 97*
Lesson 98
- Learn about the letter O.
- Look at the shape oval.
- Clean up the color blue.
Lesson 100
- Listen to a story about Harold.
- Listen to an alphabet sounds video.
- Listen to an abc song.
Lesson 101*
- Learn about the letter P.
- Look at the letter P.
- *Use Lesson 101 in your workbook. You can color the picture. Paul is used to being in a warm climate. He’s traveling with the circus to a cold location. He can see his breath when he puffs out air, “P, p, p.”
- Listen to a story about Paul the Parrot.
Lesson 102*
- Learn about the letter P.
- *Use Lesson 102 of your workbook.
- Trace the P’s with your finger. Color them in orange.
- Find all the P’s in the story.
- Talk about the animals, their names, their letters and their alphabet sounds.
Lesson 103*
- Learn about the Letter P.
- *Use Lesson 103 in your workbook. Find all the letter P’s. Color in the Bible verse picture.
- Listen to a story about Paul the Parrot.
Lesson 104
- Learn about the Letter P.
- Talk about the animals, their names, their letters and their alphabet sounds.
- *Use Lesson 104 in your workbook and practice drawing lines.
Lesson 105*
- Learn about the letter P.
- Listen to a story about Paul the Parrot.
- *Use Lesson 105 in your workbook to complete an oval craft.
- Listen to an abc song.
- Learn about the letter Q.
- Look at the letter Q.
- *Use Lesson 106 in your workbook.You can color the picture. Queenie is the queen bee and she doesn’t like to be kept waiting. She has a sound she makes when she’s annoyed, “Qu, qu, qu” and if you hear it, you better hurry up!
- Listen to a story about Queenie the Queen Bee. (video Queenie the Queen Bee)
Lesson 107*
- Learn about the letter Q.
- *Use Lesson 107 in your workbook. Trace the Q’s with your finger. You can color the Q’s.
- Use yarn, noodles, or whatever, to make a big Q.
- Talk about the animals, their names, their letters and their alphabet sounds.
- Be quick. Be quiet. Quiver. Quack.
Lesson 108*
- Learn about the letter Q.
- *Use Lesson 108 in your workbook.
- Fill the Letter Q with anything, coins, toy cars, yarn, whatever.
- Practice tracing circles.
- Listen to a story about Queenie the Queen Bee. (video Queenie the Queen Bee)
Lesson 109*
- Learn about the letter Q.
- Talk about the animals, their names, their letters and their alphabet sounds.
- *Use Lesson 109 in your workbook. Find and color every Letter Q in the story.
Lesson 110*
- Listen to an alphabet song.
- Learn about the letter Q.
- Listen to a story about Queenie the Queen Bee. (video Queenie the Queen Bee)
- *Use Lesson 110 in your workbook and make a quilt craft.
Lesson 111*
- Learn about the letter R.
- Look at the letter R.
- *Use Lesson 111 of the workbook. You can color in the rabbit. This rabbit is always on the move. There’s only one time he stays put and that’s when he’s struggling to pull a carrot from the ground, “R, r, r.”
- Listen to a story about Robert the Rabbit.
Lesson 112
- Learn about the Letter R.
- *Use Lesson 112 of your workbook. Trace the R’s with your finger. Color them in.
- Talk about the animals, their names, their letters and their alphabet sounds.
Lesson 113*
- Learn about the letter R.
- *Use Lesson 113 in your workbook.
- Find all the R’s in the story.
- Practice drawing lines.
- Listen to a story about Robert the Rabbit.
Lesson 114*
- Learn about the letter R.
- *Use the Lesson 114 page in your workbook and find each Letter R in the verse.
- Talk about the animals, their names, their letters and their alphabet sounds.
Lesson 115*
- Learn about the letter R.
- Listen to a story about Robert the Rabbit.
- *Use Lesson 115 in your workbook and make rabbit ears.
Lesson 116
- Listen to an Alphabet song.
- Review P, Q, R.
- Listen to a story about Paul, Robert, and Queenie.
- Look at the color purple.
Lesson 117
- Learn about the letter P.
- Watch this colors video.
- *Use Lesson 117 and color a rainbow.
Lesson 118*
- Learn about the letter Q.
- *Use Lesson 118 in your workbook and find all the Q’s.
- Look at hearts.
Lesson 119*
- Learn about the letter R.
- Look at stars.
- *Use Lesson 119 in your workbook and make a star craft.
Lesson 120*
- Listen to an alphabet song.
- Listen to a story about Harold.
- *Use Lesson 120 in your workbook and make a shapes mobile. (Or cut them out and just glue them to another piece of paper.)
Lesson 121
- Learn about the letter S.
- Look at the letter S.
- Use Lesson 121 of the workbook. You can color the picture. Everyone knows when the snake is coming because of the sound he makes as he slithers: “Ssssss.”
- Listen to a story about Sammy the Snake.
Lesson 122*
- Learn about the Letter S.
- *Use Lesson 122 in the workbook. Have your child trace the S’s (starting from the top) with his finger. Have him color it in purple or orange.
Lesson 123*
- Listen to ABC songs and learn about the Letter S.
- *Use Lesson 123 in your workbook.
- Find all the S’s in the story.
- Practice drawing lines.
- Listen to a story about Sammy the Snake.
Lesson 124*
- Learn about the letter S.
- Look through your animal pages and have your child say all the letter names and sounds. If they get stuck on a sound, remind them of the character.
- *Use Lesson 124 in your workbook and color in each Letter S in the verse.
Lesson 125*
- Learn about the letter S.
- Listen to a story about Sammy the Snake.
- *Use Lesson 125 in your workbook and make a shapes book.
- Look for the letter S when you read together.
Lesson 126*
- Learn about the letter T.
- Look at the letter T.
- *Use Lesson 126 in your workbook. The turtle really doesn’t appreciate when he hears someone tapping on his shell, “T, t, t” when he’s all snug inside.
- Listen to a story about Timothy the Turtle.
Lesson 127*
- Learn about the Letter T.
- *Use Lesson 127 in the workbook. Have your child trace them (starting from the top) with his finger. Have him color in the bubble letters.
- Hunt around the house for things that start with a “T” sound.
- Make the letter T out of things in your home. Duplos would be easy.
- Make your body into a T.
Lesson 128*
- Listen to an abc song.
- Learn about the Letter T.
- Listen to a story about Timothy the Turtle.
- *Use the Lesson 128 page in your workbook to practice drawing lines.
Lesson 129(*)
- Learn about the letter T.
- Look through your animal pages and have your child say all the letter names and sounds. If he gets stuck on a sound, remind him of the character.
- *Use Lesson 129 in your workbook and find each Letter T in the verse.
- Learn about the letter T.
- Listen to a story about Timothy the Turtle.
- *Use the Lesson 130 page in your workbook to make train tracks.
- Look for the letter T when you read together.
Lesson 131*
- Learn about the letter U.
- Look at the letter U.
- *Use Lesson 131 in your workbook. The unicorn is known for not looking where he is going and can sometimes crash into things. When he does, this is what you hear: “U.” (This is the short sound of U like in up.)
- Listen to a story about Ulysses the Unicorn. This auto-plays the sound.
- Learn about the letter U.
- *Use Lesson 132 in your workbook. Have your child trace the letters (starting from the top) with his finger. Have him color them in.
- Listen to an abc song.
- Learn about the Letter U.
- *Use Lesson 133 in your workbook.
- Find each Letter U in the story.
- Practice drawing lines.
- Listen to a story about Ulysses the Unicorn. This auto-plays the sound.
- Together, think up words that rhyme with sun, pup, cut.
- Learn about the letter U.
- Look through your binder and have your child say all the letter names and sounds. If they get stuck on a sound, remind them of the character.
- *Use Lesson 134 in your workbook.
- Find each Letter U.
- Cut out the big Letter U for a game. Hold onto your U.
- Learn about the letter U.
- Listen to a story about Ulysses the Unicorn. This auto-plays the sound.
- Glue the U (from Lesson 134) upside down on a piece of paper. Draw lines to turn it into an umbrella. Draw on a scene too if you like.
- Look for the letter U when you read together.
- Learn about the letter S.
- Review S, T, U.
- Listen to a story about Ulysses, Timothy, and Sammy.
- Look at the color brown.
- *Use Lesson 136 to find each Letter T.
- Go on a brown scavenger hunt in and around your house. (cardboard, bark…) Either just gather it or make it all into a collage.
- Learn about the letter T.
- *Use Lesson 137 to do a snowman shape activity.
- Learn about the letter U.
- Color the bear brown.
- This is the shape of a diamond. It’s like a square balanced on one of its points.
- Do a puzzle.
- Listen to a letter sound song.
- Learn about the letter U.
- Look through your animal pages with all the letters and have your child say the names and sounds of the letters.
- Learn about the letter V.
- Look at this letter V. Do you know what V word is in the picture?
- Look at this letter V. What letter V word is in this picture?
- *Use Lesson 141 in the workbook. Victor drives a pretend ambulance in a circus act. The car makes this sound, “Vvvvv.”
- Listen to a story about Victor the Vulture.
- Learn about the Letter V.
- *Use Lesson 142 in the workbook. Have your child trace them with a finger and color them in brown.
- Look through all your pages and talk about the letter names and sounds.
- Listen to a colors song.
- Learn about the Letter V.
- *Use Lesson 143 in your workbook.
- Find each Letter V.
- Practice drawing lines.
- Listen to a story about Victor the Vulture.
- Learn about the Letter V.
- *Use Lesson 144 in your workbook. Find each Letter V in the verse.
- Learn about the letter V.
- Shape’s song!
- Listen to a story about Victor the Vulture.
- *Use Lesson 145 in your workbook to draw a vase or a volcano.
- Learn about the letter W.
- Look at the letter W.
- *Use Lesson 146 in your workbook. William’s act in the circus is called “The Helicopter.” He stands on his head and spins with his tail bent to one side so his tail goes around like helicopter blades and sounds like this, “W, w, w, w, w.”
- Listen to a story about William the Walrus.
- Learn about the Letter W.
- *Use Lesson 147 in your workbook. Trace and color the W’s.
- Look through your all your letter pages and say the names and sounds of the letters. Use the animals to help memories.
- Learn about the Letter W.
- *Use Lesson 148 in your workbook. Color the Bible verse, and find the W’s.
- Listen to a story about William the Walrus.
- Listen to Starfall’s letter E song.
- Watch a video about the letter W.
- Watch another video about the letter W.
- *Use Lesson 149 in your workbook to practice drawing lines.
- Learn about the letter W.
- Listen to an alphabet song.
- Listen to a story about William the Walrus.
- (*)Color in a whale if you like. (Lesson 150)
- Learn about the letter X.
- Look at the letter X.
- *Use Lesson 151 of the workbook. Xavier has been trained to do a back flip any time he hears someone open a can of soda, “X (Ks).”
- Listen to a story about Xavier the X-ray Fish.
- Listen to an abc song and learn about the Letter X.
- *Use Lesson 152 and trace and color the X’s. Remind your child to always jump to the top of the letter.
- Learn about the letter X.
- *Use Lesson 153 in your workbook and find each Letter X in the verse.
- Listen to a story about Xavier the X-ray Fish.
- Listen to an abc song and learn about the Letter X.
- *Use Lesson 154 in your workbook.
- Find all the X’s in the story.
- Practice drawing lines.
- Listen to an abc song.
- Learn about the letter X.
- Listen to a story about Xavier the X-ray Fish.
- *Color in the Letter X. (Lesson 155)
- Look at the colors black and white. Which part of the page is black? Which part is white?
- Learn about the letter V.
- Review V, W, X.
- Listen to a story about Victor, William, and Xavier.
- Clean up the green toys.
- Learn about the letter W.
- *Use Lesson 157 in your workbook and find all the W’s in the story.
- Read this shapes book.
- Learn about the letter X.
- Play a shape game.
- Play a shape game.
- Listen to an abc song.
- Listen to the abc song.
- Play a color game.
- Listen to the letter I song.
- Listen to Starfall’s letter A song.
- Listen to a story about Harold.
- Make a black and white craft. Cut black and white strips of construction paper. Attach white strips spaced out along a black strip. Attach one on top, the next under, the next on top. Do the same with a black strip along the bottom. Show your child how to weave the other black strips through. Fold over the loose ends and cut or attach them.
- Listen to an abc song.
- Learn about the letter Y.
- Look at the letter Y.
- *Use Lesson 161 in your workbook. Color in the yak. The yak is a hard worker and when he gets tired, he yawns and makes a “y” sound.
- Listen to a story about Yolanda the Yak.
- Learn about the Letter Y.
- *Use Lesson 162 of your workbook. Have your child trace it (starting from the top) with his finger. Have him color it in.
- Listen to an abc song.
- Learn about the Letter Y.
- *Use Lesson 163 in your workbook.
- Find each Letter Y.
- Practice drawing lines.
- Listen to a story about Yolanda the Yak.
- Learn about the Letter Y.
- Listen to an alphabet song.
- *Use Lesson 164 in your workbook and color in each Letter Y in the verse.
- Look through your animal pages and have your child say all the letter names and sounds. If they get stuck on a sound, remind them of the character.
- Make a letter Y out of yarn; you could glue it to yellow paper or use yellow yarn. Or, just make a Y out of anything.
- Make a Y with your body.
- Learn about the letter Y.
- Listen to a story about Yolanda the Yak.
- *Use Lesson 165 in your workbook and make a silly yak craft.
- Look for the letter Y when you read together.
- Learn about the letter Z.
- Look at the letter Z.
- *Use Lesson 166 in your workbook. Color in the zebra. Zach (or Zoe) is allergic to bees and will start galloping as fast as possible if he (she) ever hears this sound, “Zzzzz.”
- Listen to a story about Zoe the Zebra.
- Learn about the Letter Z.
- *Use Lesson 167 of the workbook. Have your child trace the letters (starting from the top) with his finger. Have him color them in purple or orange.
- Listen to an abc song.
- Learn about the Letter Z.
- *Use Lesson 168 in your workbook.
- Find each Letter Z in the story.
- Practice drawing lines.
- Listen to a story about Zoe the Zebra.
- Learn about the letter Z.
- Look through your animal pages and have your child say all the letter names and sounds. If they get stuck on a sound, remind them of the character.
- Play with rhymes.
- *Use the Lesson 169 page and color in each Letter Z.
- Learn about the letter Z.
- Listen to a story about Harold.
- *Use Lesson 170 in your workbook and turn the Letter Z into a zebra.
- Look for the letter Z when you read together.
- Listen to the whole alphabet.
- Watch the color video.
- Find the matching letters. This activity is on ABCya. It is free access on laptop/desktop. Mobile devices will ask you for a subscription account. You will be using ABCya in our Kinder Math course.
- *Use Lesson 171 in your workbook and play the alphabet review game. Roll a six-sided die; when you land on a letter, say its name, sound, and a word that begins with that letter. Keep your place by just drawing a mark on your spot in your color on by using a piece of a post-it-note.
- Put shapes on the gingerbread man.
- Listen and count to ten.
- Mix the colors.
- Click on Numbers. Then do several pages of the activity until you match the numbers (1 – 1, 2 – 2, etc.)
- Paint a picture.
- Connect the dots.
- Listen to a letter sound song.
- Watch this counting song.
- Count the underwater animals. You can click 1 – 5.
- Find the letters. Click on play and then ready. Make sure your volume is on.
- Watch the alphabet video.
- Count!
- Count along.
- Give Teddy five things. Click on the picture and then Numbers up to 5.
- Choose Letter Sounds. Type and listen.
- Play this counting game. Choose Counting and then “Counting Out” on the right, numbers 1 – 10.
- Fill in the missing letter. Choose the first balloon. Can you hear which sounds starts the word? Which letter makes that sound?
- Choose Numbers. Click the arrow to move forward until you find a page with the numbers at the top and objects to count at the bottom, like a ball, balloons, and cars. Count the objects on that page and the next.
- Be a bug catcher.
- Play a game.
- Play some more.
- Play some more! This is ABCya and is just for fun, playing with numbers, letters, and shapes.
- Great job finishing preschool!
- Parents: It’s time to go to My EP Assignments, and on the Settings page, click Set Level and Theme and choose Kindergarten! Here are images of the process.
- Consider starting the kindergarten reading course soon. It is longer than every other 180-day course. It has an extra seven weeks of lessons, about 35 days.