'Early Foundations' Preschool Play & Learn Guide | Know & Play Preschool - All about it and FAQs

What is Know & Play Preschool?

Know & Play Preschool is a new section of The Know & Play Space. It features learning activity guides and curriculums to support your child through the preschool stage of their learning and development journey.

Our Know & Play Preschool publications are suitable for just having fun doing activities at home together, homeschool preschool, or childcare settings, and have been expertly put together as purposeful, play-based programmes.

What is the 'Early Foundations' Play & Learn Guide?

Our 'Early Foundations' Play & Learn Guide is the first of our Know & Play Preschool publications. It is an introduction to preschool 'learning', covering Early Years objectives for typical 2.5 - 4 year old stages of development.

The 'Early Foundations' Guide is made up of 6 focused blocks, linked to early Mathematics and Literacy, containing a total of 30 activities + variations,. All of the activity ideas support children's development of a whole range of skills including: mark marking, listening, concentration, fine motor, gross motor, number recognition, counting + so many more.

Each block section contains a block overview, a song or songs of the week, and then 5 activity pages - all with lists of what you will need, information on how to do the activity, some photo examples and a varation on how to adapt the activity.

Upon purchasing 'Early Foundations', you will also get access to the 'Supporting Resources' section of Know & Play Preschool, which provides you with BONUS printable resources and guides to enhance, support and help with the activities and ideas.

What age is the 'Early Foundations' Guide suitable for?

The starter guide is best suited to children 2.5-3.5 years, who are at the beginning of their preschool stage of learning. However, the objectives covered throughout the guide are ones that children would be continuing to work on around 4 years of age too. If you are unsure as to whether the guide is suitable for your child, please reach out via email or Instagram DM.

Do I need a lot of space for these activities? And are they any activities that offer learning outdoors?

Nope, you don't need a lot of space for any of these activities. All of them can be adapted to work in the space you have available for play. And, yes! Definitely! In fact, nearly all of the activities are ones that you could do outside and some are BEST done outdoors.

Do I need to buy lots of resources to be able to do the activities?

Nope! Most of the activities use resources that you will most likely already have or can collect at home. As mentioned above, any resources we feel would be helpful materials to have to enhance or help with the activities, we've included as bonus printables.

If you've purchased the 'Early Foundations' and have the password, you can find access to all of these bonus printables here: https://www.theknowandplayspace.com/know-and-play-preschool

Can I see a sneak peak of what I am buying?

Of course! Please find below the 'Focus Blocks' titles, plus our 'Get started' page where you'll be able to see an example of Block 1 - Shapes Around Us.

GET YOUR COPY OF THE EARLY FOUNDATIONS GUIDE HERE

My child goes to a Preschool already and I don't have much time with them at home. Is this still worth buying?

If you like setting up and doing simple play activities with your child, and you want to be supporting their development, then it's definitely still worth buying! Although the blocks are suggested to spend a week on, because they're flexible, you can dip in and dip out of activities whenever works for you (and there are 30 of them to do this with!).

As mentioned in our guide, it's suggested in research that children learn best through a spiral approach to learning, so coming back to activities over and over again at different times is really beneficial to their development and mastery of skills.

What's the difference between the PDF Copy and the Hard Copy?

The PDF Copy and Hard Copy are the same document, however, the PDF will be sent instantly upon purchase to your email. The Hard Copy will be posted to your chosen address. If we have copies already in stock, they will be posted as soon as possible. If not, then the ordering option online will change to pre-order, until we have more in stock, and will be sent as soon as we have them. This doesn't normally take longer than 1 week.

Do you have any other Know & Play Preschool publications?

We DO! Head to The Know & Play Shop HERE to find them. Make sure you are subscribed to our email list, and follow us on Instagram @theknowandplayspace to see when NEW publications are released!

Any other questions?

Please feel free to get in touch via email or Instagram DM. We are always more than happy to help!

HAPPY KNOWING & PLAYING