Congratulations! You have correctly identified the benefits of giving your student exposure to early education. According to research from Duke University, students who receive structured education beginning about this age (4 years old) excel more than those who do not. The Pre-K grade year is a fun one filled with new learning experiences and sensory play. Let learning for your pupil continue to be fun and structured with our low-prep lesson plans. The content is designed around a 2-day per week schedule, allowing you adequate time for non-school related activities. By default, Tuesday and Thursday are used in the Timetable, but feel free to choose any time that fits well for your family’s lifestyle. Please register your student (free registration) for more information about this resource. In addition to the pre-organized school days, with Heroesmart Homeschool Academy, you have the option of downloading the weekly workbook at a small fee and having these workbooks stored in your student’s Library for future access or to download at a later time. Register your student for exams to test their knowledge upon the completion of every 9th week, or skip ahead to the exit exam for a more comprehensive test. Whichever decision you make, your student is a hero in our eyes! This curriculum is designed for students between ages 3-5 years old. Below you will see the end of year objectives for this grade year. God Bless!

Language Arts:

• Alphabet symbol recognition
• Associate alphabetic symbols with corresponding sounds
• Understand difference between vowels and consonants
• Auditory discrimination (consonant and vowel sounds)
• Read, write, and spell word families (21 sets; 1 for each consonant sound)
• Identify and sound out beginning & ending sounds in a word
• Identify, sound out and write in-context vowel sounds
• Phoneme segmentation (CVC words)
• Identify and manipulate separate sounds in CVC words
• Identify the number of syllables in a word
• Read, write, and spell 3-letter cvc words phonetically
• Read and write dolce sight words
• Opportunities to practice decoding new words

Handwriting:

• Write all 26 uppercase and lowercase letters of alphabet
• Write numerals 1-20
• Write numerals spelling 1-20
• Write first name
• Write last name
• Write cvc words
• Write sight words

Mathematics:

• Count forward to 100
• Count backward from 100
• Recognize and associate numerical symbols with spelling to 30
• Introduction to place value system
• Compare objects using greater than, less than, or equal to symbol
• Compare numerals using greater than, less than, or equal to symbol
• Identify Roman numerals 1-40
• Mentally convert Roman numerals to decimal numerals and vice versa
• Understand basic addition as joining
• Complete basic addition equations within 10 (with and without objects)
• Understand basic subtraction as taking away or removing
• Complete basic subtraction equations within 10 (with and without objects)
• Skip count to 100 by 2s (with and without model/manipulatives)
• Skip count to 100 by 5s (with and without model/manipulatives)
• Skip count to 100 by 10s (by memory; without model)

Basic Skills/Science:

• Colors (learn the differences between primary and secondary colors)
• Identify and draw basic geometric figures
• Rhyme using word families
• Recognize and complete patterns
• Understand significance of patterns
• Understand purpose of learning opposites
• Understand and pair opposites (24 sets)
• Learn about the five senses and their uses
• Learn about 7 general sections of the human body

Bible Reading:

• Gain familiarity with Bible characters
• Encourage print awareness
• Strengthen understanding that words are read from left-to-right
• Strengthen understanding that written letters form syllables and words
• Vocabulary builder
• Introduction to Bible and some Bible characters. All major Bible characters and stories covered, including:
• Creation
• Adam and Eve
• The Fall
• Story of Joseph
• Story of Moses
• The Exodus
• Daniel and the Lion’s den
• David and Goliath
• Jonah and the whale
• Jesus' birth, life and resurrection and many more!
• Memorize weekly Bible verses

Music time:

• Learn new Sunday School songs each week

Craft & bonus:

• Helpful charts
• Relevant craft activities
• Relevant additional practice activities and/or games
• Sight words flash cards
• Alphabet coloring sheets
• Numeral coloring sheets