Pre-K Homeschool: Monthly Themes, Books, and Activities

Pre-K Monthly Themes, Books, and Activities

Hi friends!

I shared our relaxed homeschool plans for preschool recently and I wanted to follow up with a peek into what themes we are planning to dive into each month. We are also going to be working on reading since Willow has shown a lot of interest in this recently (I talked more about this in my homeschool plan post). But aside from that, it will be a whole lot of reading surrounding the themes I have chosen, art, painting, hands-on fun, documentaries/educational episodes, exploring outside, and playing! We’ll also keep working on calendar work, writing her name, and learning emergency phone numbers and our address… so simple stuff. I am so excited, but let me tell you, Willow is even more excited. She has been asking to do school all summer.

So here’s a look at the monthly themes we will be covering. Well, this is my “plan,” anyway. I am an extreme planner but I am going to do my best to let her lead. If we switch gears on subjects or other things come up, I want to honor that. So we will see how this pans out! But hey, as long as I have a plan for now… I feel good.

I also say “possible activities” because these may also shift or change but these are the things I have found and are interested in doing. We may not get to everything but it’s nice to have a running list to pick and choose when the time is right and if it fits into our day/week. I am also not the craftiest person so these are all pretty simple and straight-forward! :)

Here we go.


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September

Themes: Autumn, Apples, and Leaves

Books to get from our shelves and/or the library:

Possible activities:

October

Themes: Pumpkins and Halloween

Books to get from our shelves and/or the library:

Possible activities:

  • Pumpkin painting
  • Pumpkin carving and counting seeds
  • Make pumpkin pie
  • Make pumpkin bread (sub the butternut squash in linked recipe)
  • Pumpkin patch
  • Hayrides
  • Halloween craft from Dollar Tree
  • Trick-or-treating
  • Candy counting

November

Themes: Outerspace, Thanksgiving, and Gratitude

Books to get from our shelves and/or the library:

Possible activities:

December

Themes: Christmas and Giving

Books to get from our shelves and/or the library:

Possible activities:

January

Themes: Winter, Snow, and Arctic Animals

Books to get from our shelves and/or the library:

Possible activities:

February

Themes: Black History, Love, and Kindness

Books to get from our shelves and/or the library:

Possible activities:

  • Bake Valentine’s Day cupcakes
  • Make/write Valentine’s Day cards for friends and family

March

Themes: Dinosaurs, Volcanos, Backyard Birds

Books to get from our shelves and/or the library:

Possible activities:

April

Themes: Dirt, Seeds, and Flowers, Easter, and Earth Day

Books to get from our shelves and/or the library:

Possible activities:

  • Plant seeds in the garden
  • Use nature as paint brushes
  • Observe flowers and label parts
  • Nature walks and watercolor what we see later
  • Visit local botanical garden
  • Bake sweet bread for Easter
  • Tracing & counting with jelly beans
  • Watercolor Earth
  • Plant flowers
  • Recycling sorting activity
  • Beach clean-up
  • Layers of the Earth using Play-Doh

May

Themes: Trees and Caterpillar/Butterflies

Books to get from our shelves and/or the library:

Possible activities:

June

Themes: Summer, Sun Safety, and Beach

Books to get from our shelves and/or the library:

Possible activities:


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