A friend of mine once asked a veteran homeschooler, “What do you do for kindergarten?” The homeschooler, mother of several children, looked blank for a moment and then answered, “Kindergarten? For kindergarten, we play dominoes after lunch!”
For preschool or kindergarten, if you want to do a little more than “play dominoes after lunch,” but the preschool curricula with all their worksheets and manipulatives and coloring pages seem a little bit too much, Picture Book Preschool is for you. All the education experts agree that the best thing you can do to prepare your preschooler for more formal schoolwork is to read to her every day.
Picture Book Preschool (PBP) gives you lots of ideas about what to read. The core of the curriculum is a list of over 500 of the best picture books available—a book for every day of the year and then some! If you and your preschooler merely read together every day (and maybe play dominoes after lunch sometimes), you’ll be well on your way to a quality education—and a lot of fun times for both of you.
