God’s Little Explorers

Apparently it’s a thing in the homeschool-blogging world to share your curriculum choices at the beginning of each school year. I totally love this idea and I love reading through all the fun ideas and plans people have for their kids.

Alas, this is not that post.

You may have gathered that follow-through is not one of my strong suits. {{sheepish grin}} So, instead of telling you what I’m doing this year, how about I tell you what I did last year?! You love me right now, don’t you?

Our hybrid homeschool picks out all our basic curriculum and I try to add a few things here and there–like We Choose Virtues and this year, since we didn’t finish Bible Detectives (see follow-through above), we’ll continue that. Anywhoo, last year, when Asa was still a Pre-K kiddo, I wanted something that was a little more school-y without being overly LEARN ALL YOUR LETTERS AND SOUNDS AND CONJUGATIONS AND LATIN AND HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY.

I ran across God’s Little Explorers and it became the perfect fit for us. It’s actually a FREE preschool curriculum at Motherhood on a Dime but you can pay $17 and get it all in one spot with some extra downloads. That’s what I did and it’s totally worth the 17 bucks, I assure you!

Here’s a little screenshot on how it works and how I use it on my computer…

Here’s how I used it in my own two hands…

I printed the entire thing off and divided it all up in this 31-file folder. You can’t buy an A-Z folder because they usually combine XYZ. Lame. Then I put in all the printables and assignment sheets in the appropriate file. That way if I happen to run across something that would work for an upcoming week, I could slide it in there.

Here’s Asa’s notebook. He is SO proud of this thing.

We added a little extra weekly thing and made Memory Verse Books.

It started because the second week you make this cool book about creation with contact paper. And we thought it would be fun to make one every week. They aren’t fancy and most of them were illustrated by Asa, but he loves them and it really helped him internalize the Scriptures.

Asa also had a “writing notebook” that I filled with letter-themed printables from 1+1+1=1. I slid them into page protectors so he could use a dry erase marker and reuse them as often as he wanted. This was kind of an extra thing so he had something to do if I had to work with Lydia.

If you’re considering homeschool, I think this is a great try-it-out option. If you’re not into sending your kids to preschool but wanna do  some more structured (but not too rigid) learning at home, this is a great resource. If you just want something easy peasy, fun and Bible-centered to do with your preschoolers, this is it!

Grab God’s Little Explorers now!