Our Preschool Life

We're so excited that Our Preschool Life has been nominated for the Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards! Make sure you go vote for your favorite homeschool resources before March 14! https://www.home-school.com/2025-reader-awards/

We've been nominated for the Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards! Go here to vote for your favorite homeschool resources: https://www.home-school.com/2023-reader-awards/

2023 Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards Ballot It’s time again to cast your vote for the best educational products for homeschoolers! To entice you to take the time to fill out and send in this ballot, we are offering a fabulous prize. But vote soon - all ballots must be completed and received before March 20, 2023!

Our Preschool Life is getting even better, starting with next month's box. Here's a peek at what to expect.

NEW MAGAZINE
The monthly box now includes a beautiful, full-color magazine that gathers all of this month's activities, ideas, and encouragement into one place for easy access. The online content from your subscription is included in the magazine, giving you offline access so you can be present with your child. An online version of each activity is still accessible in your account if you need it on the go. (Of course, we can't print music tracks in the magazine, so you'll still find the classical music and song downloads in your account, but the magazine includes all the ideas for introducing each piece or song to your child.)

SUGGESTED SCHEDULE
Inside the magazine, you'll find a gentle suggested schedule to help you include each activity over the next month. We've spread everything out over four weeks to make it doable.

BOOKS
Each month you will still receive one or more of our favorite books in your box, depending on the options you chose for your subscription. The magazine lists all four book selections for the month; be sure to add any that aren't in your box to your library list!

KINDERGARTEN
If you have a five-year-old, be sure to check the back of the magazine for details on using Our Preschool Life for Kindergarten.

SPIRITUAL ENCOURAGEMENT
The back page of the magazine has a special encouraging article just for you. Take a few minutes each month to let a simple but powerful reminder nourish your own heart.

ONLINE CONTENT
Subscribers still receive all of the online content each month, but we're changing how it's delivered just a little bit. Instead of receiving a few items in your account each week, everything will be available at once around the time your box ships. And all of the online content will also be in the magazine for you, too.

We are so excited for you to see an enjoy these new changes to Our Preschool Life! Not a subscriber? Get started now at https://ourpreschool.life

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Tip: It’s a great gift for 3–5 year olds that will keep them exploring and learning with plenty of play-based activities and ideas all year long!

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Great resource from our parent site Simply Charlotte Mason: Top 10 picture books for preschoolers! Some good suggestions to check for at your library.

Top 10 (or 20) Picture Books for Preschoolers Today I'm sharing my top ten (or twenty) picture books for preschoolers.

Today's young children are working more, but they're learning less.

How the New Preschool Is Crushing Kids Today’s young children are working more, but they’re learning less.

This article cites a study about the importance of free play and exploration with the senses.

New Research Shows That Teaching Preschoolers More and More, at Ever-Younger Ages, May Backfire Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies...

The Importance of Being Little by Erika Christakis seeks to describe what the perfect classroom preschool should look like and, in the process, outlines a compelling picture of preschool through everyday life at home. Find on Amazon: https://buff.ly/3p07sv2

What a great peek into the Nature Hunt Notebook from jesswahlstedt on Instagram. Thanks for sharing!

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A great article that highlights the benefits of free play and how necessary it is in the preschool years.

The decline of play in preschoolers — and the rise in sensory issues Here is a new post from pediatric occupational therapist Angela Hanscom, author of a number of popular posts on this blog, including “Why so many kids can’t sit still in school today,” as well as “The right — and surprisingly wrong — ways to get kids to sit still in class” and “How s...

The five qualities of good picture books, explained in this video.

How to Choose a Good Picture Book Libraries and bookstores have entire rooms full of picture books—thousands of them! Here's how to spot the good ones.// FOR MOREOur Preschool Lifehttps://our...

Thanks for the lovely review and pictures on Instagram, learning.skillfully!

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This article cites a study by Stanford that found strong evidence of mental health benefits in kindergarteners who wait a year to enroll in school.

Study finds improved self-regulation in kindergartners who wait a year to enroll A new study on the mental health effects of kindergarten enrollment ages found strong evidence that a one-year delay dramatically improves a child’s self-regulation abilities even into later childhood.