The Homegrown Preschooler

The curriculum includes substantial parent guidance with background on child development, organization tips, and detailed activity descriptions. The foundational book provides educational philosophy and practical implementation guidance.

The book includes 'tips on housekeeping and organization, potty training, dealing with tantrums' and 'chapters lay the groundwork as they talk about child development and age-appropriate learning' with 'suggestions for dealing with children with special needs'

The curriculum naturally integrates subjects through real-life home activities and themed monthly units. Activities connect home life, science, math, language, art, and social-emotional learning in authentic contexts.

Activities span 'home life, science, gross motor, fine motor, math, language and emergent literacy, art and sensory, and social-emotional' areas, with monthly themes like 'Fall and Apples' that connect multiple subjects

The curriculum provides activity descriptions and suggestions rather than structured direct instruction lesson plans. The approach favors experiential learning and parent-guided activities over explicit instruction.

Activities are 'listed and described, but they are not set up in lesson plans' and 'Lesson plans do not set up a schedule of what to accomplish each day. Instead they present activities from various areas'

The curriculum builds knowledge through monthly themes that connect learning across domains, though the focus is more on developmental experiences than systematic knowledge building. The approach is more experiential than knowledge-sequential.

Monthly themes like 'October theme is Fall and Apples' and 'March uses a theme of Rhythm and Rainbows' provide coherent organizing principles, but activities are described as lists to select from rather than sequential knowledge building

The curriculum deliberately emphasizes developmentally-appropriate learning over academic rigor, positioning itself as an alternative to academically-oriented preschool programs. Each subject area maintains age-appropriate depth for preschoolers.

The curriculum is described as 'a wonderful antidote to the recent push for academically-oriented preschool programs' and emphasizes that 'Young children learn best when they experience concepts in a real way' rather than through workbooks

The curriculum does not explicitly incorporate retrieval practice or systematic review of previously learned concepts. The focus is on introducing new experiences rather than reinforcing retention.

No mention of review activities, retrieval practice, or systematic reinforcement of previous learning in the curriculum description