Age 4-5

Age 4-5 Videos

Overview

The Beyond the Page Age 4-5 level is the most enriching, all-inclusive, hands-on program available for preschool or kindergarten homeschool families. Journey through fun and exciting literature selections. Follow amazing characters who pick blueberries, catch fireflies, and go on leaf hunts. Enjoy hands-on art activities, engaging dramatizations, and fun musical experiences.

Along the way, learn letters and sounds, vocabulary, and sight words, and practice handwriting. Each unit contains integrated math activities to reinforce basic math skills in counting, adding and subtracting, comparing, and sorting. The literature selections inspire engaging science and social studies activities, including making maps, modeling land forms, researching animals, and conducting fun science experiments. You and your child will love this integrated approach to all of the subjects.

Each unit includes the following elements:

a literature selection,
math activities,
science and social studies activities,
letter recognition activities,
handwriting activities,
reading workshop,
writing workshop,
vocabulary words,
sight words, and
art, music, and drama activities.

The Beyond the Page Age 4-5 program can be used as a comprehensive preschool curriculum. It can also be used as a kindergarten curriculum if used in conjunction with a reading program. Coupled with a reading program, the Age 4-5 program is aligned with the Common Core standards for kindergarten math and language arts.

One of the highlights for you as the teacher is that this level comes with a materials kit so there will be very little shopping that you will have to do to provide this rich, hands-on learning environment for your young child. You will receive a box that includes fun art materials, stickers, die-cuts, and other supplies that will make implementing this curriculum easy and fun!

Your child will love learning science, social studies, language arts, and math with this integrated, hands-on approach.

Student Skill Prerequisites

Interested in being read to
Able to converse about what is being read
Able to hold a pencil
Has a beginning interest in sounds and letters

Beyond Standards

When combined with a reading program, the Age 4-5 level covers the Common Core standards for kindergarten math and language arts. We have also aligned this level with state and national standards for science and social studies. We do, however, go far beyond the standards, which are a minimal requirement for what your child should be learning. We don't just want to teach your child what she needs to know to progress to the next grade level. We want her to love learning and to become a lifelong learner.

Age 4-5 Common Core Alignment

Our curriculum has excellent coverage of the Common Core standards for ELA and Math.

English Language Arts
Review our alignment with the Common Core Standards for Language Arts.
Math
Review our alignment with the Common Core Standards for Math.

What Else Do I Need?

The Beyond the Page Age 4-5 program will introduce your child to reading and writing letters and words, but it is not a complete reading program. If you are using this level as a preschool program for your child, you should not need to supplement with a full reading program. If this is your child's kindergarten year, however, you may want to consider using the 5-7 Full Year Reading Package in conjunction with the Age 4-5 program.

Most families that use Beyond the Page don't choose to supplement with a separate math program for children in preschool or kindergarten. Our curriculum does not provide the structured review that a separate math program, but we do cover all of the standards for kindergarten. If you think that your child is more advanced in math and is ready to move forward you can consider starting with the Age 5-7 Math Program.