Free Letter of the Week Preschool Curriculum

Welcome to Freedom Homeschooling’s free Letter of the Week preschool curriculum!

About the Letter of the Week Curriculum

Our Letter of the Week Preschool Curriculum is designed for children (around 4 years old) to complete the school year before they start kindergarten.

The curriculum includes a free 185-page printable workbook as well as daily read-alouds, videos, songs, and activities for 35 weeks! Parents won’t need to purchase any books; all of the read alouds are either videos or ebooks that the parent will read to the child.

How to Get Started With the Letter of the Week Curriculum

First, download and print the Letter of the Week workbook.

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The workbook is only part of the preschool curriculum and is incomplete on its own. Each week, visit this page and choose the week you’re on from the list of weeks. You’ll find the weeks in the right sidebar of this page if you’re using a PC or laptop. If you are on a mobile device, the weeks will be at the bottom of the page. Start with Week 1.

Each week’s page includes five days’ worth of read alouds, songs, videos, and activities. It will also tell you when your child should complete the corresponding workbook pages.

Supplies Needed for the Letter of the Week Curriculum

A PC, laptop, or tablet is recommended. While you can use a phone, a larger screen will work better for watching videos, reading ebooks to your child, and engaging in online activities.

You will also need access to a printer to print the free downloadable workbook. To reduce printing costs, the workbook is in black and white.

To complete the worksheets, your child will need:

• pencils
• crayons
• dot markers (These will be used beginning in Week 3.)
• a large pack of small stickers (Any shape or design is fine as long as there are at least three colors. The stickers will be used beginning in Week 10.)

Each week will also include additional hands-on activities and art projects for you to choose from. Most arts and crafts activities use common school and art supplies, such as construction paper, markers, scissors, and glue. Other activities will use items that you likely have on hand or can purchase inexpensively if you choose to do the activity.

Additionally, each week will include suggestions for themed snacks and a recipe you and your child can prepare together. The snacks and recipes will utilize items that should be readily available in most grocery stores, rather than hard-to-find or expensive ingredients.

Objectives of the Letter of the Week Preschool Curriculum

The objectives of our preschool curriculum are to:

• Teach children to identify and write upper and lowercase letters.
• Familiarize children with the sound of each letter.
• Teach children to identify and write numbers zero through twenty.
• Teach counting from zero through 20.
• Expose children to classic children’s literature, poems, nursery rhymes, and songs.
• Build an interest in learning to read.
• Review colors and shapes. (The curriculum assumes your child already has some knowledge of basic shapes and colors.)
• Teach patterns, direction words, and position words.
• Provide exposure to basic science and social studies concepts related to the world around them.
• Encourage creativity through various art projects.
• Develop fine motor skills.
• And most importantly, have fun and encourage a love of learning!

What the Letter of the Week Curriculum is Not

This curriculum is not a program or app that you can hand to your child for them to complete independently. Instead, it is designed for the parent or another adult to actively engage with the child. There are stories, poems, and nursery rhymes for you to read to your child. You should also watch the video read alouds with your child, sing along with the songs, provide instructions, help him/her with the worksheets, and participate in hands-on activities together.

This curriculum is not intended to teach your child to read. Instead, the goal is to introduce your child to letter sounds to prepare him to learn to read in the future and to encourage an interest in learning to read. Your child may quickly pick up most of the letter sounds, or he may only retain a handful. Either way, avoid drilling him on letters or letter sounds. Keep it fun!

Concerns About Screen Time

Many parents wish to limit screen time, especially for younger children, which Freedom Homeschooling completely supports. Most days of the Letter of the Week curriculum will require less than 20 minutes of screen time for your child, and there are ways to reduce this further.

The curriculum includes links to many video read alouds. If you have the book, can borrow it from your library, or purchase it, read the book to your child yourself instead of using the video. If you aren’t able to obtain the book from the video, feel free to substitute another book.

The curriculum introduces a song each week. There will be a link to a video of the song each day, but if you know the song, you don’t need to have your child watch the video every day. Simply sing the song with your child yourself.

Concerns About Worksheets

Many children this age are not yet ready to spend much time on worksheets, and that’s completely normal. Additionally, parents often want to avoid or limit worksheet use in early childhood for various reasons, including concerns about age appropriateness.

Most weeks, the Letter of the Week curriculum includes one brief worksheet per day, totaling five per week. The five worksheets usually consist of two letter worksheets, two number worksheets, and one additional worksheet. However, the intro week, review weeks, and weeks towards the end of the curriculum have varying layouts. To reduce the number of worksheets, you could skip the second number and letter worksheet each week.

Instead of using the worksheets, you could have your child practice writing letters and numbers with his finger in a tray of sand, rice, or dried beans. Your child may also enjoy making letters or numbers out of playdough or writing with sidewalk chalk outdoors.

Religious Content

The Letter of the Week Curriculum is neutral and doesn’t teach religion. However, in the read-alouds and videos, you will (very infrequently) come across mentions of Christian holidays and religious ideas. Additionally, the curriculum includes public domain anthologies of children’s stories and poetry. While the specific stories and poems included in the curriculum do not teach religion, there may be other stories or poems in the anthologies that do.

For Christian Families

To add Bible lessons to the Letter of the Week curriculum, you could choose a Bible story that coincides with each week’s letter (Adam and Eve for A, The Tower of Babel for B, Creation for C, etc.). Or, instead of sticking to the letter theme for Bible lessons, you could read a story aloud from a children’s Bible each day, in chronological order. If you’re looking for a Bible curriculum, you can find many options on our Free Bible Curriculum page.

Have a Great Preschool Year!

I hope this Letter of the Week curriculum helps you create a joyful preschool year filled with memorable moments, fun learning experiences, and special time together. Wishing you and your child(ren) a wonderful preschool year!

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