Our daughter turned four in April. She knows all her letters and can sound out c-v-c words, even though we haven't really taught her reading. She can also write her name, count to 20, and is solid on shapes, colors, etc. She loves science experiments, being outside, and being read to. So for the fall we decided to do OPGTR plus tons of read alouds to get her reading really going, Singapore Early Bird, maybe Mathematical Reasoning 2 as well since we already have it, Elemental Science, and Wee Folk Art. We'll also do plenty of open-ended process art projects and just general messing around with materials, exploring what they can do. We're both excited to get started.

Oh, wow, A Year of Playing Skillfully looks exactly like what we've been talking about doing with our daughter next year. Thank you for the link! My one question would be about the Christmas and Easter months, how religious does the plan get? We don't practice Christianity, though we do celebrate those holidays secularly. I wonder whether it would be a good fit for us.

When I was her age my dad explained it to me using a dark room, a globe, a flashlight for the sun, and an orange for the moon. It was a perfect hands-on illustration. Our daughter loves maps too. We mark things on them for her that she's interested in: here's where we live, here's where you were born, here's where the Eiffel Tower is, here's where the president lives, here's where penguins live, etc.

Our daughter is 3.5 and loves B1. She maybe does 10-20 pages a week. Sometimes she zips through a bunch and sometimes her attention can only hold for one or two. She and my husband do them together, cuddled up on the couch in the morning before he leaves for work. She calls the book "my special daddy game." It's fun bonding time for them.

We liked Flowering Baby. The one for ages 4-5 has a year's worth of great unit studies, including field trip suggestions and book lists. It's definitely helped flesh out our plans.

We bought the complete PreK kit for our three year old and it's great. She loves the toys and games.

We're using it with our three year old now. I wasn't sure repeating the letter poem six times per lesson was worth it, but we're only on T so far and she's already begun sounding out simple words herself so it must be working. To get through the whole long poem so many times we say it as a race, whisper it, shout it, clap to it, really anything I can think of to keep things interesting.