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Preschool Curriculum

When my first baby was around 18 months old, I was wondering what to do with all of our time together. I was researching some educational related ideas and I don't remember how I came across "The Measured Mom" blog. However, I was immediately captivated by all the crafts, the science, the sensory play and her Letter of the Week series. We started right away with her Letter of the Week activities and I quickly realized how much JOY these types of activities brought to me as a mother. In fact, it still is a major part of how I enjoy motherhood, how I feel connected with my children, and how I love spending time with them. 

If you are looking for some ideas to get started, here are some excellent links:

I posted all about our Alphabet Activities on my old blog: News with Naylors. It seemed like with each kid, I could never finish the series because a new baby would come, we would move, or a big major change like "homeschooling" would happen. However, we enjoyed the journey along the way and we had so much fun learning together. 


With my third child, I started "Play Beyond the Alphabet" that includes the best ideas and play activities we've used over the years. For each letter, there is as letter craft, sensory play, simple math, science, recipe, and an entire alphabet activity. 

I have completed all of the letter crafts that you can find here: PBTA - Process Art

I have completed the following letters and hope to add in links to what we would have used for the remaining letters at some point soon:















We have finished a few more letters that I can hopefully put together and add here soon. For the remaining letters, I'm trying to decide to do an official play pack or just a calendar with links to all the activities. I'm guessing the latter and we will still do some of the activities throughout the year. 


This school year (2022-23), my family decided to homeschool. My preschooler (the same child as shown above) is three, turning four this year. He is going to a Montessori preschool on Tuesday and Thursday and doing activities with me at home on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Because of Play Beyond the Alphabet and our love for "Letter Factory" (seriously the best movie to learn letters and sounds), we are already familiar with all the uppercase letters and all the sounds. We are enjoying using the Preschool curriculum from the Good and the Beautiful, because it is teaching us our next steps with lowercase letters and beginning sounds. Here's what we are using to supplement The Good and the Beautiful:
  • The Letter Factory (we still watch this show often to review)
  • Letter Factory Flashcards - print them here. Instead of doing all of the letter sound videos in TGTB curriculum, we just go through these flashcards with our made up actions that we already know. For us, it would be confusing to try to learn new sound actions when we have already learned them in a different system.
  • Beginning Sound Cover Mats from The Measured Mom. Because we already did so many letter crafts last year with Play Beyond the Alphabet, we aren't doing anything with the letter worksheets. Instead, we are using these Beginning Sound Covers for more practice with beginning sounds.
  • Cover the Dots from This Reading Mama. We will use these every once in a while for extra practice with uppercase and lowercase letters. This activity teaches sorting between the two letters and recognition. You can fill the circles with dot stickers, dot markers or dot magnets. We cover the uppercase H with with one color and the lowercase h with different color. 

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