Our Preschool Curriculum Picks

Our youngest daughter turned four in April and she is eager to start preschool.  One of the lessons I’ve learned since I started homeschooling in 2010 is that we don’t *need* a preschool curriculum.  Instead of picking a formal curriculum with our daughter, our preschool curriculum picks is a selection of books that we’ll read together.  We’ll combine these books with crafts, activities, alphabet do a dot printables, alphabet handwriting practice printables, and other related printables.

That’s 48 books in the photo, y’all! And that isn’t all of them! I still have a few on the way to me, plus a few I have to excavate from the older kids bookshelves. LOL. Instead of diving the preschool books into the standard subjects (i.e. language arts, social studies, science, and math), I’m going to divide them into Preschool Seussical, Preschool Science, Preschool fun, and More Preschool Fun.

Our Preschool Curriculum Picks

Preschool Seussical Books

We love all things Seuss and Seuss-ish! Here’s the one’s that we’ll start with!

1. Dr Seuss Your Favorite Seuss
2. The Sneetches and Other Stories
3. Oh Say Can You Say
4. Put Me in the Zoo
5. The Nose Book
6. Horton and the Kwudderbug and More Lost Stories
7. The Shape of Me and other Stuff
8. One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
9. I’ll Teach My Dog 100 Words

Preschool Science Books

It’s so fun to read and learn about the world around us!  We’ll use these books to wet our appetite for all things science.

1. The Usborne Big Book of Experiments
2. Wonderfall
3. Dirt + Water = Mud
4. Let’s Investigate with Nate – The Water Cycle
5. Let’s Investigate with Nate – The Solar System
6. Let’s Read and Find Out Science – What Makes a Magnet
7. Let’s Read and Find Out Science – In the Rainforest 
8. Let’s Read and Find Out Science – A Tree is a Plant
9. Let’s Read and Find Out Science – Sunshine Makes the Seasons
10. Let’s Read and Find Out Science – Earthquakes
11. Let’s Read and Find Out Science – Archeologists Dig for Clues
12. Let’s Read and Find Out Science – The Planets in Our Solar System (not in photo)
13. Let’s Read and Find Out Science – The Sun and the Moon (not in photo)
14. Let’s Read and Find Out Science – The Sun Our Nearest Star (not in photo)

Preschool Fun Books

Reading should be fun, and that’s just what this stack of books are!

1. The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm
2. 5 Minute Adventure Bible Stores
3. Animal Alphabet from A to Z
4. Morris Mole
5. Gobi
6. Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
7. Ella and Penguin – A Perfect Match
8. Mervin the Sloth is About to Do the Best Thing in the World
9. Rock N Learn Animals
10. Rock N Learn Silly Sentences
11. BooBoo
12. Peedie
13. Jesus Loves Me Sing a Long (not in photo)
14. The Berenstain Bears Friendship Blessings Collection (not in photo)
15. Little i (being released on 9/5/17)
16. Blue Vs Yellow (being released on 10/10/17 from Harper Collins)

More Fun Preschool Books

This stack includes some of my older kids favorites, so of course we have to include them!

1. Slowly, Slowly, Slowly said the Sloth
2. Little Smudge
3. The Bad Seed
4. Pancakes, Pancakes
5. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do you See
6. The Grouchy Ladybug
7. The Day the Crayons Came Home
8. The Day the Crayons Quit (not in photo)
9. Frankencrayon (not in photo)
10. The Crayon Box that Talked
11. The Way I Feel
12. There’s a Giraffe in My Soup
13. The Most Perfect Snowman
14. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (not in photo)
15. If You Give a Pig a Pancake
16. If You Give a Cat a Cupcake
17. If You Give a Pig a Party
18. If You Give a Moose a Muffin (not in photo)
19. If You Give a Dog a Donut (not in photo)
20. Big Birds Guessing Game About Shapes
21. Journey to Appleville
22. One Hundred Hungry Ants
23. Just a Special Thanksgiving
24. Goodnight Manger (not in photo)

Whew, that’s 63 books including the ones I have to snag from other book shelves and the ones that I’ve ordered or pre-ordered.  I may have to narrow my list. LOL

We’ll also be using the Rock N Learn DVD series, the LeapFrog Learning Collection DVD series, Learning Resources Counting Cans, Alphabet Handwriting Practice Printables, and Do A Dot Alphabet Printables. I’ll share reviews, activities, crafts, and printables along the way.

Check out our 3rd Grade Curriculum Picks and 5th Grade Curriculum Picks for the year.

Be sure to check out what other bloggers have chosen in the iHomeschool Network Back to Homeschool Blog Hop Curriculum Week, beginning September 4, 2017!