What’s inside

A full year of pre-K play. Already planned.

Open to any unit. Pick a day. Do one activity. That’s the whole system.

The twelve units

A theme for every month of the pre-K year.

Or skip the calendar entirely. Every unit stands alone — pick whichever fits the season, the weather, or your four-year-old’s current obsession.

The method

Same skills. Growing challenge.

A four-year-old doesn’t master reading in a month. Letters, blending, sight words, addition, scissors, friendship — all built through hundreds of small repeated moments, across months, not days. This is called spiral learning, and it’s the gold standard for how young children master big developmental tasks. Every skill area reappears every single week of the year. What changes is how we practice it — simpler in Unit 1, more complex in Unit 12.

Watch the core skills grow across the year:

By year’s end

What your child will actually do.

Every child develops on their own timeline — this is a guide, not a test. But this is what a year of consistent play-based learning tends to look like.

A guide, not a checklist. Every child arrives in their own time.

What moms are saying

From the moms already inside.

What Should a 4 Year Old Learn Before Kindergarten?

Four is the year the pieces start clicking together. Letters become sounds, sounds become words, counting becomes adding, and scribbles become writing. But a pre-k curriculum for 4 year olds still shouldn’t look like a classroom. The best kindergarten preparation happens at the kitchen table, on the floor, and in the backyard. Here’s what that actually covers.

Letter Sounds and Early Reading

At four, letter recognition turns into letter sounds, and letter sounds turn into blending — “c-a-t says cat.” Add a handful of sight words and daily read-alouds, and most children finish the year reading simple sentences. This is the single biggest jump of the pre-K year, and it happens through play and repetition, not drills.

Writing and Fine Motor Skills

Kindergarten asks children to hold a pencil, print their name, and cut on a line. Those are muscle skills, built through cutting, lacing, threading, playdough, and real pencil work — a few minutes a day, all year. By spring, most four-year-olds can print most letters and write simple words.

Math, Numbers and Early Operations

Math at four moves past counting. Children recognize numerals, count to fifty and beyond, compare quantities, extend patterns, measure with real tools, and start adding within five. Every one of those skills lives in ordinary moments — setting the table, sorting laundry, counting the stairs.

Science and Real Experiments

A four-year-old is old enough to predict, test, and explain. Life cycles, sink-or-float, weather, planting seeds, watching a caterpillar change — these build observation and reasoning, and they’re the science skills kindergarten teachers actually look for.

Social Skills and Big Feelings

Friendship at four means taking turns, reading someone else’s face, disagreeing and repairing it afterwards. Dramatic play and role-play are how children rehearse all of that — which is why pretend play stays on the weekly plan right through the year.

Independence and Big-Kid Skills

Kindergarten teachers will tell you the children who thrive are often the ones who can manage a backpack, open a lunch container, follow multi-step directions, and ask for help. Independence, self-care, and focus are every bit as important as academics — and they’re practiced daily, not taught in a lesson.

How Long Should a Pre-K Day Be at Home?

Fifteen to twenty-five minutes of focused activity is plenty at four. Some days a child will go forty minutes deep into pretend play; other days they’ll bounce after five. Both are normal. Consistency across the week matters far more than the length of any single sitting.

Questions

Asked & answered.