 Hi you guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys in today's video I will be sharing what I will be using for my preschool slash pre-care for the 2023-2024 homeschooling year. So if any of you guys are new here to my channel again my name is Brittany. I'm a homeschooling mom to three girls ages 11, 5 and 3 and I will be entering in my fourth year of homeschool for this upcoming homeschool year. So you guys I'm really really excited to share with you guys my preschool slash pre-k picks for my last daughter Alana. You guys my last daughter if you guys already know in your homeschool that last one you guys they definitely are your firecracker and she definitely wants to be a part of our homeschool. She wants to see at the table you guys. So I definitely knew I could not have another homeschooling year without involving her in some type of way. You guys to really be honest my middle or my last order Alana she really has been keeping up with Leia my five-year-old. So she definitely is like right there almost neck and neck when it comes to like her capability. Even though she is three right now you guys she definitely she gets mad at me if I don't do school for her. So I definitely had to make sure I prepared something for her. She will be four in January so she is always going to have like that winter slash late birthday. So I know not all of these things that I'm sharing with you guys today. She is going to be starting off in August but probably towards the end of our homeschooling year she definitely will be doing these things in our homeschool. So you guys let's go ahead and get started with the first main resource that I will be using for her. I will be using my core knowledge is what your preschooler needs to know. You guys this book is just jam-packed with everything. I don't have to think about it. If I didn't have any books from the library or any new books to share with the kiddos I definitely can pull out stories, poetry, poems, songs, science, history. This has everything in it and I love these little books from core knowledge. So I definitely will be utilizing my core knowledge is what your preschooler needs to know. As far as math for her I will be starting off the preschooling math Kate Snow's preschool math at home with her. I'm really really excited to do this program for a second time with my last kiddo. So hopefully she enjoys it just as much as her older sister did. I really love the hands-on learning. These activities were very simple and sweet. I didn't have to think about it. All I needed was like math manipatives index cards. It really was very low prep. So I'm really excited to do this program with her and I definitely think she will enjoy using all the math counters and things like that when it comes to our preschool math at home. As far as her phonics instructions I have a few things that I will be using with her. I have to start off with I have the explode the cold series. I have all three of the books. This right here is the get ready for the cold book A. This is the get set for the cold book B and then the last book is the go for the cold book C. Now my last order Alana she actually already knows her letter sounds and she's already beginning to blend CVC words you guys. Yes I know it's crazy but she has really learned inadvertently just from listening to me work with her older sister. So I'm just gonna kind of like go at the pace with her when it comes to like her phonics instructions and things like that. She definitely gets mad at me when I don't work with her and I don't spend that one on one time with her. So while I'm not just pushing her to do these things she's doing these things because she enjoys them and I'm just gonna follow the pace that she is giving me. But I still want to go ahead and lay a good foundation when it comes to like phonics and phonemic awareness for her. So I will be doing the all about reading pre-reading program with her. You guys this program the syllables the rhyming skills all of the activities that they do I really feel like it lays a great foundation to prepare the kiddos to read and like I said even though she does know her letter sounds and she is already beginning to blend I definitely want to make sure that we don't skip out on any of these important skills for her. So I'm really excited to be doing the all about reading pre-reading program again with my last kiddo. It has the three or the two books that comes with it the all about re-leveling has a three. You guys like I'm all jumbled up with these curriculum pick videos but this one has the two books and it has the teacher's guide and activity book that goes along with this one as well. So I'm excited to continue off with the all about reading pre-reading program with her. We are also going to supplement it with the elemental phonics by jda. This is how I have been teaching her like her blends and simple um reading skills and we're going to continue with this book um I'm just going to pull it out on a daily and have her work on whatever blend letters we are on and you guys this is very it's just a really good simple supplemental book and teaching reading it really gives the kids a breath of fresh air away from their regular phonics. So I'm really excited to continue with this book with her and this is the jda series. If I do need to get the second book I will get the second book for them but um for right now we're going to continue working on the elemental phonics level A with her as well. As far as handwriting goes we will be doing the handwriting without tier series. We will start off with the first book which is my first school book. You guys I absolutely love this book. It's so cute. I love using the little chalkboard that helps them form their letters. Now because she's only three and she's still working on those fine motor skills I don't think I'm going to pull out this book for her until she turns four in January. Also you guys this kiddo she is a lefty. So if you ever taught like a lefty to learn how to write just let me know in the comments down below if it's anything different that I have to do for her that I then what I did for my middle daughter who was a right-handed or she's right-handed. So I really don't know if it's anything different if I have to like take the binding out for her to make it be a little bit more comfortable for her. I will like tear out the pages in this book for her but um this is going to be my first time teaching a lefty how to write so we are going to use this and again we will work on this in our second semester. To start off our school year I will probably have her continue to work on her fun little dry erase book. This is from the Pretty Learning series and this is just a pen control book. She really loves doing this one um during morning time at the dining room table and things like that. She just likes feeling like she's apart and I definitely love having her use this simple dry erase book for like her pen control. So we'll start off with this again in August and then like I said in January she would do like her formal handwriting. Some other fun supplemental things I have for her again it's cutting skills and we probably won't pull this out again until she's four and then I also have you guys you know I love these things. I have my big old Melissa and Doug coloring sheets for her especially for those simpler days where she wants to be apart and if I am busier with her other kiddos I definitely can pull out one of these sheets and she still feels like we did spend some special time together as well. Now as far as like her science and STEM and things like that I'm going to pair her along with her sister as well using knowledge crates you guys. I'm so excited to continue off with knowledge crates you guys these crates they are jam packed with 20 activities five picture books STEM art everything is all in here I don't have to think about it and me going into a busy season of homeschool I definitely needed something that was going to help simplify my homeschooling days and I'm really really excited to do our quarterly crates this upcoming homeschool year and I definitely know this will ensure I get the art and a STEM and all those things in there for my two youngest kiddos this crate right here is the preschool crate they do have the school age crates but I'm really really excited to continue using our knowledge crates. So you guys like this is all of the things that I will be using for my um up and coming preschool slash pre-care and I'm really excited to like really get her a seat at our table this homeschooling year. So you guys please stay tuned for my upcoming curriculum picks because in my next video I will be sharing what I am going to be using for my sixth grader this upcoming homeschooling year. So I really hope you guys have been enjoying my homeschool curriculum picks week videos this week and as always you guys thank you so much for watching I appreciate you all and I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one. Bye!