- ISBN: 9781453140550
- Copyright: 2024
- Grade: Preschool ages 3-5
Meet Preschool With a Purpose, a uniquely Highlights approach to preschool curriculum!
Meet Preschool With a Purpose, a uniquely Highlights approach to preschool curriculum!
- Preschool With a Purpose is a comprehensive preschool curriculum or a curricular enhancement for educators seeking developmentally appropriate, play-based learning that covers kindergarten-ready skills and relies on children’s creativity, choice, and interests.
- It is a pedagogical extension of the Highlights philosophy—which strives to inspire children through fun and wholesome activities that connect them to their sense of power and capacity to create.
- In Preschool With a Purpose, we’ve taken nearly 80 years of Highlights materials and tradition, curated and adapted them for early childhood educations settings, and created a comprehensive and flexible resource that delights children, stokes their sense of wonder, celebrates their unique perspectives, and helps them develop a love of learning during crucial years for cognitive development.
Use Preschool With a Purpose Your Way
Explore Preschool With a Purpose as curricular enhancement
Explore Preschool With a Purpose as a full curriculum
What's right for you?
The full kit? A selection of individual boxes? Reach out and a team member can help you identify the best package to suit your needs!
Here’s what's available
Use it your way — as a full curriculum for the school year, for select months, or to supplement your current lessons.
SELECT OPTION
- Full Curriculum
- Monthly Learning Kits
Full Curriculum
Unbox and go! Everything you need for a year of enriching play-based learning, in our most cost-efficient option.
10 Monthly Learning Kits
Four weeks of themed lessons in every kit offers educators enough lessons and activities for the full school year. Visit the “Monthly Learning Kits” section above to discover what’s included in every kit.
Starter Kit
In one box, get everything you need to plan for play-based learning that covers all of preschool’s most essential skills, all year long.
- Quick start guide, contents and materials lists, and a classroom welcome guide for an easy, out-of-the-box teaching and learning
- Teacher portfolio, weekly planner pad, and digital learning lab labels put planning tools into teachers’ hands
- Year-at-a-Glance poster shows each week’s themes and the foundational skills and concepts covered to keep classroom goals in sight (download it here!)
- Guided learning planner pocket chart hangs in the classroom as a durable hub for planning all year long
- Student writing journals and assessment materials provided for each student to last the whole school year (24 each)
- Dry erase sleeves allow teachers to reuse weekly Learning Lab cards and templates and cut down on waste (12)
- Highlights Press kindness books support learning and can live in the classroom library for use all year (4 titles)
Digital Planner
One year complimentary access to the digital planner, a one-stop shop for planning all year ($749 value).
- Administrators, teachers, and substitute teachers can quickly access teacher-facing lesson plans
- Digital versions of select planning and teaching materials help teachers customize the day’s activities, including Circle Time and Learning Lab cards, and wonder words to introduce new vocabulary and concepts.
- Options to customize classroom content
- The ability to save customized curriculum and plans year to year
- Access to sing-along-songs and instructional videos
Monthly Learning Kits
Each learning kit is neatly organized into four weekly themes, giving teachers quick and easy access to everything they need for planning. Use all 10 months as a full curriculum, enhance your existing program with select kits, or choose the months that fit your needs — the choice is yours.
- Portable box with a weekly time-saving organizational system
- Monthly theme posters provide an overview of each month's four weekly themes for quick reference for teachers and families. (10)
- Monthly teacher guides provide a step-by-step plan and overview of core topics, activities, songs, and materials lists. (10)
- Weekly theme templates feature teacher-led activities and child-directed STEAM activities.
- Circle Time cards explore core activities at welcome and reflection circle times (19 cards per week)
- Learning Lab cards (centers/stations) with play-based small-group and independent STEAM activities. (16 cards per week)
- Weekly Family Newsletters to keep families engaged in what their child is learning. (40 unique newsletters to send home for up to 24 students)
- Weekly Tell-Me-More wristbands for families get children sharing about all their joyful learning (wristbands for up to 24 students)
Monthly themes include:
- September- Welcome to School
- October- Autumn All Around
- November- Fall Harvest
- December- Messy and Process Art
- January- Cold Climates
- February- Friendly Traits
- March- Change & Grow
- April- Big Backyard
- May- Homes and Habitats
- June- Place You'll Go
Curriculum Overview
See what educators are saying:
Elysse Hollis, Co-Director of Valley School in Van Nuys, California
"Our teachers love how easy the program makes their day! The lessons are well thought out, super engaging, and give [teachers] the flexibility to add their own creative flair… It’s like having a helpful guide that still lets them have creative control over their classrooms.”
Tiffany Eden, Director of Immanuel Lutheran Child Development Center in Twin Falls, Idaho
“I appreciate that the curriculum aligns clearly with the Idaho Early Learning Standards… It provides well-organized resources, creative ideas, and meaningful ways to support children's learning and growth.”
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Watch Preschool With A Purpose come to life!
Supported teachers, happy students, grateful families—and so much more with Preschool With a Purpose!
Child tested, approved, and loved
Nearly 80 years of conversations with Highlights readers have ensured our materials delight, excite, interest, and engage children while they encourage a love of learning.
Saves time, adapts easily
Simple, ready-to-go materials plug seamlessly into the school day and help teachers map out the week and plan for adapting learning to students’ needs and interests.
Standards-aligned skills
Research-backed lessons and activities meet standards as they purposefully weave in literacy, numeracy, fine and gross motor, listening, speaking, science, art, social, and emotional skills.
Suits all teachers
Detailed enough to guide and support new teachers as they grow, flexible enough for seasoned teachers to adapt it to their preferences and differentiate learning.
Gives families confidence
Weekly Family Newsletters, plus more home connections, explain the details and purpose of learning and include fun activities and tips to engage families and reinforce learning.
Includes only what’s needed
Convenient boxes include only what teachers need to deliver intentional learning that invites both student and teacher creativity and agency.
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Who is Preschool With a Purpose for?
Educators who believe play is the work of childhood!