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!
- Dr Seuss Your Favorite Seuss
- The Sneetches and Other Stories
- Oh Say Can You Say
- Put Me in the Zoo
- The Nose Book
- Horton and the Kwudderbug
and More Lost Stories
- The Shape of Me
and other Stuff
- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
- 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.
- The Usborne Big Book of Experiments
- Wonderfall
- Dirt + Water = Mud
- Let’s Investigate with Nate – The Water Cycle
- Let’s Investigate with Nate – The Solar System
- Let’s Read and Find Out Science – What Makes a Magnet
- Let’s Read and Find Out Science – In the Rainforest
- Let’s Read and Find Out Science – A Tree is a Plant
- Let’s Read and Find Out Science – Sunshine Makes the Seasons
- Let’s Read and Find Out Science – Earthquakes
- Let’s Read and Find Out Science – Archeologists Dig for Clues
- Let’s Read and Find Out Science – The Planets in Our Solar System
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- Let’s Read and Find Out Science – The Sun and the Moon
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- Let’s Read and Find Out Science – The Sun Our Nearest Star
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Preschool Fun Books
Reading should be fun, and that’s just what this stack of books are!
- The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm
- 5 Minute Adventure Bible Stores
- Animal Alphabet from A to Z
- Morris Mole
- Gobi
- Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
- Ella and Penguin – A Perfect Match
- Mervin the Sloth is About to Do the Best Thing in the World
- Rock N Learn Animals
- Rock N Learn Silly Sentences
- BooBoo
- Peedie
- Jesus Loves Me Sing a Long
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- The Berenstain Bears Friendship Blessings Collection
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- Little i
(being released on 9/5/17)
- 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!
- Slowly, Slowly, Slowly said the Sloth
- Little Smudge
- The Bad Seed
- Pancakes, Pancakes
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do you See
- The Grouchy Ladybug
- The Day the Crayons Came Home
- The Day the Crayons Quit
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- Frankencrayon
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- The Crayon Box that Talked
- The Way I Feel
- There’s a Giraffe in My Soup
- The Most Perfect Snowman
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
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- If You Give a Pig a Pancake
- If You Give a Cat a Cupcake
- If You Give a Pig a Party
- If You Give a Moose a Muffin
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- If You Give a Dog a Donut
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- Big Birds Guessing Game About Shapes
- Journey to Appleville
- One Hundred Hungry Ants
- Just a Special Thanksgiving
- Goodnight Manger
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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!
I absolutely LOVE the “Let’s Read and Find Out Science” series!